Review for Let's Sing Queen. Game for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the video game was released on 02/10/2020
In the wake of the enormous success of the biopic sui Queen Released at the end of 2018 (Bohemian Rhapsody), a clear testament to the band's greatness and impact, Let's Sing Queen by Ravenscourt presents itself as the ultimate karaoke experience for all fans. Available now for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, we tested the Sony console version with unforgettable reefs. Let's talk about it.
Ravenscourt's Let's Sing franchise has replaced, in the hearts (and consoles) of fans, the famous Singstar series, also strong from an old title dedicated entirely to Queen. The latter, however, remained confined to the PlayStation 3 boards, leaving the followers of the English band orphaned until today. For the British rock group it is therefore a welcome return also in home entertainment with microphone and TV. In this case, the four London boys take over the scene thanks to one Excellent track list of 30 tracks, selected from unforgettable hits and pearls for connoisseurs.
Ravenscourt - Let's Sing Queen: the complete tracklist
- A Kind of Magic
- Another One Bites The Dust
- Bicycle race
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Breakthru
- Crazy Little Thing Called Love
- Don't Stop Me Now
- Fat Bottomed Girls
- Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
- Headlong
- I Want It All
- I want to break free
- Innuendo
- It's a hard life
- Killer Queen
- Now I'm Here
- One Vision
- Play the game
- Princes Of The Universe
- Radio Gaga
- Save Me
- Somebody To Love
- The Invisible Man
- The Show Must Go On
- Tie your mother down
- Under Pressure
- We are the champions
- We will Rock You
- Who Wants To Live Forever
- You're my best friend
At the core of the gameplay of Let's Sing also in this dedicated version remains the support for wired and wireless microphones, headphones, as well as a downloadable app that can transform any smartphone or tablet into a perfect microphone. They are included high quality video taken from the original filmography of the band to act as background, ed note recognition works fine.
Fans of the Let's Sing series will surely recognize the main game modes, in this case with a few extras to help experienced karaoke singers go beyond just starting songs. Online support is also well present, with rankings that will help you compare your scores with those of others, or why not challenge someone overseas. Local multiplayer is of course the aspect where any karaoke game really shines, and Let's Sing Queen has you covered big time.
Not only will you be able to play in "Let's Party" mode for teams of up to four players, but you can also sing in "Feat." Mode, that is, in harmony (hopefully) with other players if not Freddie and the rest of Queen (very appreciable the duet with David Bowie in Under Pressure).
The modalities of Ravenscourt - Let's Sing Queen in detail
- Classic: on stage alone or with friends. It's about hitting the right notes and then making the highest score.
- Feat.: Grab a friend or join the legendary Freddie Mercury in single player mode. The better the items match, the higher the compatibility score.
- World Contest: challenge friends or another online singer on the other side of the world. The game will show your performances as if you were singing together.
- Mix Tape 2.0: always different playlists, according to dynamically generated medleys.
- Jukebox: the word says it, practically a Queen radio hits.
- Let's Party: two teams with up to four players each and only one microphone per team face off in randomly chosen game modes.
Mind you, this new chapter of Let's Sing it was not born to introduce anything revolutionary, but only to satisfy (rightly) the wishes of a large group of fans of the historic band. The dynamics already experienced in the Ravenscourt franchise work as one would expect. During our test we never encountered pairing problems when we used smartphones as microphones, and in the same way the recognition of tones and musical timing is more than precise. Furthermore, the work done, first on the music selection and then on the editing of the films surrounding the songs, is really of quality. An underlying perplexity remains, probably linked to a technological complexity that implies a difficult implementation, at least for current hardware.
We refer to the speech recognition of pronunciation, which on karaoke versions of foreign songs can make a difference in terms of song rendering. In fact, it will certainly happen that, while showing off your fluent English, you find yourself badly losing a match against those who, on the other hand, emit only vocalizations or chew incomprehensible but well-tuned sentences. This is because the software recognizes only tones and not phrases. It will be the introduction of a Let's Sing in next-gen sauce? We'll see… for now The (karaoke) show must go on!
In essence, this is the spirit with which to approach Let's Sing Queen by Ravenscourt. The technical measures or innovations that are now ripe to be introduced do not (rightly) concern karaoke lovers that much. Those who choose such a title do so for the atmosphere it can create especially in the family and convivial environment, and in this case they are certainly also a lover of Queen, to whom the title still makes an excellent tribute.
► Let's Sing Queen is a Music type game developed by Koch Media Ravenscourt and published by Koch Media for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the video game was released on 02/10/2020
