Sorry, trolls, this game's OK and the review's going to be more informative than destructive. Still, if you're looking for a cheap shot: why the hell are the guys so set against going to the prom in "A Night to Remember?" Don't they know that this is their best chance to get laid? Be excited, weirdoes.
Anyway, Sing It: HSM3 is your standard karaoke videogame. You get 25 songs from all three movies and the actual film clips where the song is preformed. You'll pick a song, the video will start, words will light up on the bottom of the screen and you need to sing those syllables in a way that fills in pitch/timing bars above the text. At the end, you're score is compiled based on how well you did. Basically, this is a HSM-themed version of SingStar. Sure, the fact that Sing It sticks with one theme means it's going to have limited appeal and it doesn't come close to touching SingStar's bells and whistles on PS2/PS3, but the game actually outdoes its inspiration in a pretty significant way. Sing It tosses in a vocal ball that allows you to see what pitch you're singing in at all times. SingStar doesn't do that, so it can be a guessing game as to how you need to adjust your vocal performance. Aside from that, you can also preview an entire song and video from the list of tracks, although the controls for cycling the songs can be finicky.
And in that short little paragraph, I've pretty much summed up the Sing It experience. There are solo modes (you can sing without any instructions on the screen, create set lists, and just croon by yourself) and multiplayer options (duet, versus, set lists, and team play for up to eight singers), but basically you're just singing High School Musical songs in a tried and true karaoke videogame format without any frills. There is no EyeToy support like in the PS2 SingStars, and the music videos that play behind the lyrics only look passable; there's a tendency to have some pixilation with the vids, and that sucks. It's not as bad as the ugly HSM cartoon characters, but it seems like the videos could've been cleaned up.
Still, the presentation is decent -- slick, easy to navigate menus that play the songs you're scoping -- but there really isn't that much more to the title. Where SingStar PS3 excels is that it packs a bunch of songs on the disc, has a store to download more, and has a profile system similar to that of Facebook; Sing It: HSM3 lacks anything like that. Sing It doesn't even have the party games and camera support of the PS2 SingStars. You just have 25 songs to run through and then you're done. The team mode is just duet or versus and doesn't feature any kind of creative game; you can't turn off the original vocal track to isolate your singing; and other than the scoreboard, there's nothing to chase.
Everything works well and is pretty, but how long will 25 tracks last you?
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