63/100
Players3 ratings: 70/100
Critics1 review

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2012 · Ubisoft Leamington · Party · Rhythm

Sing Party

Nintendo exclusive

Party All Night Long

Released: 18 November 2012
Platforms: Wii U
Genres: Party Rhythm
Developers: Ubisoft Leamington
Publishers: Nintendo
Perspective: Auditory
Themes: Party
Country: United Kingdom
Age ratings: ESRB E10+CLASS_IND L PEGI 3
Languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Spain)

About

Sing Party (stylized as SiNG PARTY) is a music party video game developed by Nintendo and FreeStyleGames and published by Nintendo for the Wii U. It was released in North America as a Wii U launch title in November 2012, and later in Europe in January 2013.

Sing Party is a karaoke-style game that features 50 licensed songs from various artists such as Fleetwood Mac, Lady Gaga, Queen, and Rihanna. The game requires the use of the Wii U karaoke microphone, which was bundled with all physical editions of the game in addition to also being available for purchase separately. Previous licensed microphones used with singing games for Wii are also compatible with the game. Sing Party received generally mixed reviews from critics.

Keywords

karaoke
music and rhythm
launch titles

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

Like other karaoke games, players would sing to the lyrics of the available songs and get scored based on their rhythm, however Sing Party permits multiple people to play along with the lead singing player.

The game includes a variety of different modes. In Party Mode, lead singers read the song lyrics on the Wii U GamePad, allowing them to face the other players, which represent the lead singers' audience, and the lead singers can move around the room instead of staring at the television screen. The other players joins in the fun by following the cues from the physical performance of the lead singers, singing the background vocals and dancing along with the moves shown on the television screen.

Reception

Sing Party has received mixed reviews. The game received a score of 60/100 on review aggregator website Metacritic, indicating “mixed or average reviews”. IGN has given the game a 6.3 out of 10, saying that "while one person steps up as the main performer, others can dance, sing and clap along with the prompts on the TV screen making sure everyone at the party is rocking out together." Nintendo Life gave the game a 5/10 score, praising the flashy graphics and gamepad use, but criticising the game for lacking identity.