If this was a traditional videogame, right now we'd be grousing about the lack of innovation and the failure to build on previous successes, and we'd be justified in doing so.
Singstar Pop Hits features thirty new music tracks, so the content is entirely fresh, but the execution is exactly the same thing as we've seen before from the series. However, it's also an old thing, which presents a dilemma. At heart, it's still the best karaoke game ever made, with an astonishingly compelling central mechanic which will magically turn the most shy and reticent partygoers into hyper-competitive divas. All of the reasons to like Singstar remain solidly in place. There is absolutely no substantial difference to the technology or presentation of Singstar Pop Hits as compared to the last four games in the series. Now, however, with seven Singstar discs already on shelves in the UK and an eighth sitting in my PS2, things are trickier. Even after the original game, a couple of innovations like duets and the (admittedly somewhat dodgy) rap meter remained to comment upon in subsequent versions. When the first versions of the game were released, we could write about how it worked how solid the microphones felt, how well the game picked up people's voices, how much fun the competitive modes were. Singstar is a bit of an oddity from a reviewer's point of view.
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