There are two types of gamers who will be reading this review of SingStar 90’s for the Playstation 2: Either you own the previous SingStar games and you are interested in hearing what new songs you can sing or you are a karaoke fan who enjoys 90’s music. I doubt there are many first person shooter fans reading this review unless you are trying to impress a girl with your singing, but enough trying to figure out why you are reading this review; let’s get down to what is new in SingStar 90’s.

This time around SingStar 90’s brings us the likes of En Vogue, Hootie and the Blowfish, MC Hammer, Paula Abdul, Sixpence None The Richer, Vanilla Ice and yes I will admit my favorite band in high school Wilson Philips. The game hasn’t changed much since the previous games; other than the colour of the main menu and of course 30 brand new tracks from the 1990’s for you to belt out in the privacy of your own home. The complete track list:

The gameplay in SingStar 90’s remains the same with a single player mode, duet, pass the mic, battle and even straight karaoke with no scoring. There is a slight difference in some songs if you pick duet mode such as “Len – Steal my Sunshine” where one person sings the male vocal and the other the female one, it gets more difficult when it comes to “Extreme’s – More than Words” where the bottom track is a harmony of the first track, not for the faint of heart. You can still use the eye toy to show yourself singing instead of the standard music videos that come with each song.

SingStar 90’s will bring you back to your high school days blasting these songs on your Walkman on the bus; there is a good mix of hit songs from the 90’s that you are sure to remember. Same as the previous Sing Star games the game only contains 30 songs, which puts the game about $1 a song, quite a bargain if you have the microphones from a previous version. However 30 songs is just not enough music and the songs grow tired really quickly, imagine going to a Karaoke bar that only had 30 songs to choose from. This small menu of songs will be solved with SingStar for the Playstation 3 with paid downloadable songs a la carté.

For those of you on a Playstation 3, the mics and game do function properly (minus the widescreen function); the change disc function sometimes freezes your console if you go back to the older SingStar discs for some odd reason, but don’t worry about this bug if you are playing on a Playstation 2 console.

All in all SingStar 90’s is a great blast from the not so distant past with a good mix of songs and is a blast for a karaoke party.

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