The karaoke-style party game has been consistently well-received (with perhaps the exception of the Anthems disc, with its stingy tracklist), and firmly ensconced in our homes since 2004. Chronologically, SingStar Amped is not actually the latest title; however regional release dates being what they are, amateur songsters in Aussie and NZ had to wait till mid August to test drive the latest tracklist.

Assuming most of you have either played – or at least watched someone playing – one of the SingStar titles, we’ll skip the boring bit which involves a detailed description of how the game is played, and move onto the nitty gritty. If you do happen to be one of the very few who is genuinely unfamiliar with SingStar, please check out one of our previous reviews, and rest assured that gameplay has remained unchanged since early on in the piece.

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