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zexen_lowe on 19 November 2008
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http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/sim/lips/review.html

 

Lips' wireless mics and excellent song selection make for an evening's worth of entertainment, but it has little to offer solo players.

The Good

  • Great song selection  
  • Innovative wireless microphones  
  • Playlist and jukebox options  
  • Quirky and original visualisations.

The Bad

  • Basic online support  
  • Lacks video and audio playback  
  • No adjustable difficulty.

A big feature for Lips is its ability to import music from an external device such as an iPod, a computer, or the Xbox 360 hard drive. The game isn't able to download lyric data from the Internet, so you'll have to know the words to the song, but you can still use the Virtual Music, Time Bomb, Kiss, and battle options for the background. Incredibly, the game still rewards you with a score for singing along to custom songs despite the fact that it can't recognise the lyrics, which means that you can rack up ridiculous scores by just singing anything. Though the developers of Lips promise that they'll consider the most popular imported songs for downloadable content and updates, there's no real incentive to use this feature in the game.

If you're having a party with karaoke-loving friends, then Lips will offer an evening's worth of solid entertainment. The wireless microphones are convenient and innovative, and they make it difficult to go back to corded models afterwards. The song selection is also excellent, with 40 songs that are varied in style but united in anthemic quality. That said, the game's lack of camera support, vocal playback, and simple online functionality disappoint, especially given their proven success in Sony's SingStar series. Even worse, the nonexistent difficulty level means this is a game with practically no appeal for single players, aside from those who want to collect the easy achievement points. If you're looking for a game to entertain at social gatherings then it's worth checking out, but there is plenty more for Microsoft's series to do before it enters the hall of fame.

 

For comparison, they gave SingStar a 7.5
What do you think, was it expected or not? I can't say I expected much after the awful E3 trailer