SingStar Pop Hits adds to an already popular series, which can be enjoyed in the comfort of your own home, removing the worry of embarrassing yourself - or in a party environment where someone else might be a lot more tone deaf than you think you are. You can sing to your heart's content and no one would really care, because it’s a game of enjoyment rather than challenge. Well you can challenge, but you get more laughs out of it through embarrassment. It’s not to say we are all bad, but let's honest: where's the fun if everyone can sing?

For those who don’t know what SingStar is, well to describe it simply, it’s karaoke. The idea is to sing along to the lyrics displayed and to stay in tune. To know if you’re hitting the right note, bars on screen will appear giving you an idea of how high or low you need to go. As you sing along coloured bars start to appear and fill up the bars if you are on the right note or will appear outside of it to show how far off you are. As you are filling the bars/hitting the right note and holding for the duration required, the points start to pile on. At the end of the song you are graded based on the points scored, so you could end up being Lead Singer or Tone Deaf. You can play it back to see how you really sound, but sometimes it's best left alone so you can leave with some pride intact.

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