Rating: PG
Players: 1
Genre: Karaoke
Publisher: Disney Interactive Studios
Release Date: October, 2009 (AUS)

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In at least one point in our lives we all decide to give karaoke a go. Or watch and laugh at our friends while they give it a go. We have SingStar for Playstation and Lips for XBox. What about the Wii? Enter the “Disney Sing It!” franchise.

They’ve made a couple of releases already, one in particular being based on the popular High School Musical series. Now we have the latest addition, “Disney Sing It! Pop Hits”, which has a mixture of currently popular music artists featured on it.

You’ll find that Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers dominate most of the song choices, however you’ll also find the likes of Coldplay, Jesse McCartney and Taylor Swift (amongst others) that have been included in the list. Most of the songs (in my opinion) are more commonly known within the tween to teen circles, and as such would probably be on some young ladies’ wishlists for their next sleepover or birthday party.

Something that this has included in it (which I’ve not seen in a karaoke game) is a singing training program named “Sing It! Pro”. Tiffany Thornton takes you through a series of stages to help you improve your vocal abilities. The aim is to get a good enough score to complete the entire 6 stages – and then use those skills on one of the song choices. If only the people at Disney Records knew how I went with my training – I would be on the next Sing It! Game for sure.

If you haven’t bought any previous Sing It! versions you will need a microphone, right? Luckily there are bundled packages that include one. You plug it into the USB port in your Wii, and the game finds it on its own. You can also use the microphone with your computer as it is made by the people at Logitech. Take note that it doesn’t work on ALL computers – I tried it with my PC and it didn’t want to work, but when I tried it with my Laptop it did work.

If you like karaoke and are a fan of the artists, then this will be on your shopping list. However if you aren’t a fan of the latter then perhaps renting would be the way to go. But seriously parents, buy it for your teen or tween – they will love it!

Review product was provided by Madman Entertainment, and does not affect the outcome of this review.