We got a fresh look at this urban karaoke experience and battled 4mm Games president Jamie King for bragging rights.

Gazing around your local games store, you’ll notice that there’s certainly no shortage of rhythm or karaoke games. SingStar, Lips, Guitar Hero World Tour, Rock Band, and Karaoke Revolution seem to have karaoke gameplay pretty well covered, but developers 4mm Games is banking on the power of hip-hop, a partnership with Def Jam Recordings, and some unique features to swing the balance in its favour. We took a closer look at this infectious title at GamesCom 2009, in Cologne, Germany.

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After the huge success and numerous million gross revenue from the Guitar Hero series made by Activision, they have decided to publish another Hero series feature, but this one is made more for R&B, rap and different types of dance music. It is Wii DJ hero for the Nintendo Wii, a turntable controller dependent, beat & music game from Activision. If you bought, seen or know the games from the Hero series like Guitar Hero, which made a tremendous success in gross sales, then this new DJ version game will be in the same quality standards that we got used to in the Hero series and will bring participants a feel of being a club DJ star.

That’s not the only DJ wannabe game to be released this year. Konami will be publishing the Beatmania game that is pretty close to the DJ Hero Wii game. But, the Activision game should give a near reality experience with a high quality mixing like music, that will give the dance floor music amateur their high BPM dosage. Other stimulating better features are the exclusive new songs from Eminem & Jay-Z that were made solely for this DJ Hero game

Activision claims that the game is about spinning, remixing and playing like a DJ as if you are making a gang of dance lovers, that enjoy that kind of music that you hear in a club and dance their brains out. The game will include song genres like Rap, R&B and hip-hop, different genres of dance music that usually will be preferred by the club goers and others that are partisans of this rhythm of sound.

Two other glamorous features are the freestyle mode that will bring you the opportunity of spinning and mixing that is just like the professionals. This is the chance to realize the dream of becoming a DJ.

The second exciting feature is 10 songs that are played both with the turntable controller of the DJ Hero game and with the guitar controller from the Guitar Hero game. This will permit the fans of rap, metal and rock metal to play dance style music with electric guitar tracks.

DJ Hero will be available for Nintendo Wii, PS2, playstation and Xbox 360 at the end of October 2009.

The latest rumors that are going around the net are that both the developers and the distribution companies want to have uniformed Hero gameplay experience by incorporating all the controls of old and upcoming Hero games in the future games. This means that you will be able to play with the guitar, turntable, drums and microphone.

Konami’s sing-along franchise is back!

Karaoke Revolution returns without its American Idol-license this year, but a few new features have been added to refresh this year’s installment. Revolution has always had a degree of cover artists, however, for the first time, Revolution has included master tracks for every song on disc. There are 50 songs and accompanying music videos in total, and with an eclectic mix of genres, there should be something for every karaoke fan. Konami is planning to release more than 200 DLC tracks for Revolution, and it will also be backwards-compatible with existing songs. Additionally, it will support a range of microphone peripherals, with Guitar Hero and Rock Band confirmed. However, we expect SingStar and Lips’ mics should also work.

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You’ve shredded the fake guitars, and now it’s time to try your hand at the wheels of steel in Activision’s upcoming DJ debut.

It should come as no surprise that Activision is looking to build on the success of its Guitar Hero franchise. We’ve already seen band-specific versions of GH featuring Metallica, Aerosmith, and the recently announced Guitar Hero: Van Halen. With its latest project, DJ Hero, Activision and UK developer Freestyle Games are bringing a new peripheral and some fresh genres of music into the video game world with a game that looks to do for spinning the wheels of steel what Guitar Hero has done for rocking the six string.

At the pre-E3 press junket back in May, developer Freestyle showed off both the gameplay and the associated turntable/mixer accessory that will come with the game when it’s released this fall. The hardware features a single record platter with three embedded buttons that are used to trigger samples and music streams. As you might expect, the platter spins smoothly so you can easily scratch, which, as you might expect, is an essential part of gameplay.

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Rock all day and night with the new Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock by Nintendo. Guitar Hero III is the company’s most innovative and comprehensive Rock music video experience. Loaded with music from Guns, N’ Roses, Sex Pistols, The Rolling Stones, Metallica and more, the dynamic on stage sensation puts the Wii guitarist center stage in dazzling new arenas and accompanied by hand-picked action packed musicians.

Nintendo has stepped up the graphics and put out a new line of prospective band members that enable the lead guitarist to take the stage with hand selected backups. The new arenas have sparkling lighting effects and all the commotion enthused audiences generate. Adding to the vivid setting improvements are the wireless Les Gibson guitar controllers. Practice your moves and let your music persona erupt with this technologically advanced musical weapon.

At the center of Guitar Hero III is a compilation of 40 years of memorable rock music from various genres. Nintendo’s sound track takes in all the best and lets the guitarist jam with the best doing their best. The best from Europe and the best from America have come together and Wii guitarists can now reap the rewards. When entering Crank Level 11, let it all hang out.

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