E3: Details Emerge on Lips
- Scribbled on July 18th, 2008 by Jonathon Howard
- Filed in E3, Interviews, Microsoft Xbox 360, Music/Rhythm
Joystiq scored an interview with the chief creative officer at iNiS the developer of Lips, Keiichi Yano. In the interview quite a bit of information came out about the game and just how it’s going to work: with your MP3 player, your Xbox, your friends, etc.
The good news is that Yano was explicit that both Zune’s and iPods will work with the game, allowing you to stream non DRMd (doesn’t matter the variety) music to your system so that you and your friends can sing more than just what the games comes with. In addition, you’ll be scored on your own songs and Lips will do all the vocal reducation as well, so you don’t have to worry about competing with Britney while you’re singing “Oops I did it Again” (you know you sing it in the shower…)
Other great news? The game will come with two microphones the second player can jump in at anytime by just wiggling their mic. Speaking of the mics, they’ll take two AA batteries and the life of said battery isn’t that bad. There are only three confirmed songs for the game, and iNiS doesn’t have problems if people use their mics for Rock Band or Guitar Hero, but Yano states it’s up to them if they want it to.
No word on how lyrics and score charts for the songs you provide but it’s been promised and will be “very compelling?”, or how the new avatars will be worked into the game. These are important things if Microsoft wants their push towards casual to work out, nevertheless I’m intrigued… If this comes out I don’t have to keep going to sleazy bars to get my karaoke on!
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