Karaoke Revolution Country
The title pretty much says it all, so why are we even writing this preview?
Published: February 2, 2006
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Karaoke Revolution Country is Karaoke Revolution with country songs. Ho hooo, aren't we clever? But seriously, that's the game in a nutshell. If you haven't played previous KR games, you sing into a mic (included) and the game grades you based on how well you can hold a tune. That's it. KRC simply swaps out the contemporary rock and pop tunes and replaces them with songs to smack your wife in the eye to. Or demand another beer.
We had neither a wife nor a means to demand another beer, so we couldn't really get into the Heartland Spirit while playing the game, but we did find that it was very clearly a sing-along game with country themes. The menus, reskinned but otherwise the same, sported a wood grain and red paint motif. The game has some slightly tweaked player models (we rather enjoyed the super-wide-chinned, five-o'clock-shadow-sportin', ten-gallon-wearin' preset we used), and retains the same EyeToy support to import your own face into the game.
The full song list will likely come out soon which we'll happily pass along, but there were a few like "Achy Breaky Heart" and "Chattahoochee" that we could limp through on the strength of the chorus. Most of the songs (there are 35 in total) were a genuine mystery to us. Did you know there's actually a song called "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy"?
It might seem like a head-scratcher of a move, courting the classically techno-phobic parts of the country to get them to drop their inhibitions enough to sing along to songs spooling from a PlayStation 2, but karaoke is universal in its ability to suck people in to make idiots of themselves, especially with close partner alcohol in tow. Oh, and then there's the fact that it's co-branded with CMT, MTV Networks' country music station that rakes in 78 million households. Yeah, that probably helps.
We'll have more (probably littered with clichés and vaguely offensive stereotypes) as Konami kicks things our way.
Karaoke Revolution Country is Karaoke Revolution with country songs. Ho hooo, aren't we clever? But seriously, that's the game in a nutshell. If you haven't played previous KR games, you sing into a mic (included) and the game grades you based on how well you can hold a tune. That's it. KRC simply swaps out the contemporary rock and pop tunes and replaces them with songs to smack your wife in the eye to. Or demand another beer.
We had neither a wife nor a means to demand another beer, so we couldn't really get into the Heartland Spirit while playing the game, but we did find that it was very clearly a sing-along game with country themes. The menus, reskinned but otherwise the same, sported a wood grain and red paint motif. The game has some slightly tweaked player models (we rather enjoyed the super-wide-chinned, five-o'clock-shadow-sportin', ten-gallon-wearin' preset we used), and retains the same EyeToy support to import your own face into the game.
The full song list will likely come out soon which we'll happily pass along, but there were a few like "Achy Breaky Heart" and "Chattahoochee" that we could limp through on the strength of the chorus. Most of the songs (there are 35 in total) were a genuine mystery to us. Did you know there's actually a song called "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy"?
It might seem like a head-scratcher of a move, courting the classically techno-phobic parts of the country to get them to drop their inhibitions enough to sing along to songs spooling from a PlayStation 2, but karaoke is universal in its ability to suck people in to make idiots of themselves, especially with close partner alcohol in tow. Oh, and then there's the fact that it's co-branded with CMT, MTV Networks' country music station that rakes in 78 million households. Yeah, that probably helps.
We'll have more (probably littered with clichés and vaguely offensive stereotypes) as Konami kicks things our way.
