Reviewed: August 20, 2010
Reviewed by: Thomas Tam

Publisher
Disney Interactive Studios

Developer
Zoe Mode

Released: August 3, 2010
Genre: Music
Players: 1-8

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5
7.8

Supported Features:

  • DualShock 3
  • HDTV 720p/1080p
  • Dolby Digital
  • Microphone
  • PlayStation Eye

    		•  Disney’s Sing It Series has had a few iterations now; similar to back when they still made different versions of Karaoke Revolution. The difference between Karaoke Revolution and Sing It is that the latter only has songs from Disney artists. Until this title in the series I had no interest in playing any games in the Sing It lineup; howver, Disney Sing It Family Hits has songs from Disney movies instead of the television shows or High School Musical.

    When I first looked at the box it says that it features 30 songs from Disney movies, but doesn’t list all 30. I was hoping that they meant over 30 songs, but after starting the game up, it means 30 songs, a few of which I don’t think I’ll ever play, like Jessie’s Song from Toy Story 2. Of the 30 songs I have to say that at least 20 of them are well known songs. It even features two songs from Disney’s latest movie, The Princess and the Frog. Even with all of the good songs, I was kind of disappointed that they didn’t include a couple of the songs I was hoping for, like Friend Like Me from Aladdin or Strange Things from Toy Story. Here is the complete list:

    1. 101 Dalmations - Cruella De Vil
    2. A Bug's Life - The Time of Your Life
    3. Aladdin - A Whole New World
    4. Beauty And The Beast - Be Our Guest
    5. Cars - Our Town
    6. Cars - Real Gone
    7. Cinderella - A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes
    8. Cinderella - Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song)
    9. Cinderella - So This Is Love
    10. Cinderella - The Work Song
    11. The Jungle Book - I Wan'na Be Like You
    12. The Jungle Book - The Bare Necessities
    13. Lady And The Tramp - He's A Tramp
    14. Lilo and Stitch 2 - Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride
    15. The Lion King - Can You Feel The Love Tonight
    16. The Lion King - Hakuna Matata
    17. The Lion King - I Just Can't Wait To be King
    18. The Little Mermaid - Under The Sea
    19. Mary Poppins - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
    20. Monsters, Inc. - If I Didn't Have You
    21. Mulan - Reflection
    22. The Princess And The Frog - Almost There
    23. The Princess And The Frog - Dig A Little Deeper
    24. Peter Pan - You Can Fly! You Can Fly!You Can Fly!
    25. Sleeping Beauty - I Wonder
    26. Sleeping Beauty - Once Upon A Dream
    27. Toy Story - You've Got A Friend In Me
    28. Toy Story 2 - Woody's Roundup
    29. Toy Story 2 - When She Loved Me
    30. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh - Winnie The Pooh
    They do make up for the small song list by having a nice interface that doesn’t really have load times, and every song has a background video composed of either footage from that part of the movie or different scenes from the movie spliced together. Navigating through the menus is rather simple and the game picks a song to play in the background along with the video in the background while you browse. If you have an Eye Toy for the PlayStation 3, it will show a feed from the camera as the background instead of the videos while you play the song. It doesn’t add any effects to the video, but you can also turn that feature off if you don’t want to unplug your Eye Toy every time you play the game.

    The difficulty levels in the game are aimed at the whole family. Easy mode makes it where you merely need to make noise when you are supposed to and it will count. Medium takes some pitch into account and you need to be a decent singer to play here. Hard was too hard for me, but those that like to sing would enjoy the challenge this mode brings.

    There are also many game modes. The game can work with one or two microphones, but a better experience is noticed with two. The game is compatible with most any Logitech microphone that has come with any music based game in the last few years, and on the PlayStation 3 it is also compatible with the Singstar microphones. They have solo mode, which is for only one person. Duet mode, however, is made for two people. Songs that originally were a duet will have an obvious part A and part B. Songs that didn’t have 2 parts have a chorus and players generally take turns on the lead part. Showdown is a challenge mode where both players sing the solo part and try to get the highest score. There is also Pass the Mic, which is good for groups of people because the game tells you when to pass to another player and everyone tries to keep from failing.

    The audio quality was pretty good on my TV speakers except for old songs like Cinderella, which had some distortion to the track. When you first play the game it gives you a calibrate option like most music games these days. I calibrated on my TV when I first played, but when playing on another TV without calibrating, I didn’t notice any scoring troubles. The default microphone volume seems a little loud, with a lot of my voice coming back through the speakers. Adjusting down to 1 on a scale of 0 to 7 helped out quite a bit though. The game also features a Vocal Coach featuring Noni Rose, who played the princess in The Princess and the Frog.

    Overall I enjoyed the game along with the other people I played it with. The song list is good for the most part and it’s easy to pop the game in, get to the song wheel, and start singing. The $39.99 price ($49.99 with microphone) on the game seems kind of steep to me for the number of songs you get with the game, but then again these are Disney movies and not run of the mill movies, so the game alone price is reasonable compared to other new games out now.