The newest Def Jam game has been annouced: http://kotaku.com/5272315/rapstar-an...gstar-but-well
Appears to be a singing game.
Appears to be a singing game.
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Hypnotize by Notorious B.I.G.
They Reminisce Over You by Pete Rock & CL Smooth
Kanye "Gfish" West
T.I.
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oh man i cant wait. i been hoping for something with more hip-hop flava to come out. i like guitar hero but most of the songs im just not into.
plus my man Biggie gonna be in there, man i am on it!"on hoping there is a PSN flash sale before Valentine's Day"
I'm sure there's plenty of prostitutes you could pay if you really want vd.Man there are no flashers... now what are we going to do for vd
Depends on what area of a hooker you would use to redeem them.yea but will they take psn cards
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They've got around 400 songs lisenced already and Def Jam reps will be looking at the uploadable clips:
"And while karaoke games are normally seen as a bit naff, something for young girls and drunks, I'd been secretly looking forward to it all week. Not just because I'm partial to a bit of rap on the side, but also because I got the impression from the people involved - former Rockstar execs and Def Jam records - that the project was serious.
And that's exactly the impression I got walking away at the conclusion of the demonstration, at which we spoke with 4mm founder Jamie King and Warner Music Group Executive Vice President Kevin Liles (who is also head of Def Jam Interactive).
Rapstar is the combination of two things: 4mm's desire to carry the same torch its founders did at Rockstar by taking modern culture seriously (not to mention having a genuine appreciation of it), and to, as 4mm founder Jamie King puts it, "be a response to a market that is not being catered for".
"I wanna find the next DMX...in Japan", says Liles. "But I can't spend a year there lookin' for the ************". He'll be urging all Rapstar players to keep an ear to the ground, and if they know of any half-decent MCs, to make sure their performances are uploaded on the website (which will also support freestyle clips).
For all the game's mechanical strengths, though (and it appears up to the job of tracking your rapping), these music games live and die on the strength of their tracklist. We only saw seven songs today, from artists ranging from TI to B.I.G. to Kanye West, but Liles stresses that those may not make the final release, as around 400 tracks have been licensed, and over the next few months it'll be a matter of sorting through them and finding the right mix for the retail release.
The 4mm boss says Rapstar is just the beginning of a long-running collaboration with Def Jam, which will see the release of "a number of different games"."
http://kotaku.com/5280679/rapstar-im...ey-sing-we-rapComment
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When I read the title, I thought it was a sequel to the garbage that was the last Def Jam game that came out. But this one definitely sounds interesting and I definitely will be keeping an eye out on this.#RespectTheCultureComment
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Flo-Rida-"Right Round"
Lil Wayne-"Mrs. Officer"
2 Much-"Wild Thang"
Dem Franchize Boyz-"Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It"
Lil Kim-"Put Your Lighters Up"
Black Eyed Peas-"My Humps"
MOP- "Ante Up"
http://kotaku.com/5323548/these-song...-be-in-rapstar
I like Ante Up and Put Your Lighters Up a lot.Comment
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They put the wrong Lil Wayne song on there and they can do without Franchize Boyz on here.#RespectTheCultureComment
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This game is officially every white kid's dream....
http://kotaku.com/5567303/def-jam-ra...orn-rolls-deep
Perhaps the most exciting aspect of rap game Def Jam Rapstar is the one I may never be brave enough to use—it's incredibly deep community, a massively connected online feature that's stuffed with "data porn."
Def Jam and 4mm Games reps showed off much of Rapstar's deep and broad community side at E3 2010. It's where players will go, prior to and after freestyling to original beats or rapping over licensed tracks, to see how well they compare against the global competition.
Players (and Def Jam talent scouts, natch) can keep an eye on the cream of the Rapstar crop here, watching their videos, issuing them challenges and tracking their progress.
Rapstar's online interface, which is accessed from a web browser, lets budding rappers track their level of Rapstar "fame"—including their legions of followers and fans—with the best graphs hip hop may have ever seen, with a smartly designed, Steam-like HUD. Players can also track their "respect" levels, gained by accepting invitations to battle other rappers.
There's also beef.
Def Jam Rapstar community members can form crews with other players and establish rivalries with their online enemies who they regularly battle. Modeling real world rap beef, if a player is kicked out of a crew, he or she instantly has a rivalry against the remaining crew members.
Players can initiate battles, head-to-head rapping competitions, via Rapstar's online interface. Those gauntlet throwdowns can be distributed via social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, an oft-forgotten resource.
Watching Def Jam Rapstar raps cruise through the online features of the game, initiating battles and tracking one's stats looked super fast, an efficient way to take your street corner rap-offs to the 'net.
I may be too untalented and too shy to utilize Def Jam Rapstar's community features, but the game may also be a helpful instructional tool. The game's career mode starts players off with some of the easier tracks in the game, songs with lower beats per minute, then scales up the difficulty. Career mode will unlock licensed tracks and items players will want to use in the game's Freestyle mode, including Def Jam Rapstar exclusive beats, audio effects for track-making and video effects for clips filmed with the Xbox Live Vision camera or PlayStation Eye.
Def Jam Rapstar reps say that only about 10% of the game's content is locked down. They also weren't able to talk about their plans for Xbox 360's Kinect camera, but it sounded like something may be in the works.
Most attractive to rappers with dreams of creating their own tracks and not just mimicking others are the custom beats provided by real world producers. 4mm Games and Konami have announced that Just Blaze and DJ Premier will be two of the nine producers contributing beats to the game. We got to listen to one of Just Blaze's contributions, which sounded... fresh? Dope? Look, I don't know the lingo! It had a good beat and you could dance to it.
Track recording, editing and tweaking looked very friendly, the console version of a mini studio that could be a powerful tool in the right hands. Combined with the community tools, we could have a lot of improved rappers and a deep pool of talent from Def Jam to pluck from later this year.
Def Jam Rapstar will be coming to the Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, later this year. It launches in North America first on October 5, then in Europe (with localized content) on November 2.Originally posted by bradtxmale
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I would be interested in it if they had real hip hop (TROY for instance) however to move units, it will be full of **** music and good tracks will be in the minority.Comment
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90's pack? 7 of the 16 announced songs are from the 90's and 3 are from the 80's.Comment
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That is not enough for me to justify a purchase of this game. I have never purchased a music game, so I don't know what it all entails. But, I would have to be able to either import my CD's, or have a choice of a lot more than 10 songs. Maybe after a year or so, there will be more music to choose from.Comment
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No way to import your CDs for these games. RB 2 has a thing where you can turn on the custom soundtrack and do a drum-a-long,this might have a rap-a-long but there'd be no way for it reconize the song or put up the words or a proper scoring system or anything like that.
There'll be 40 songs on disc and DLC as well. As mentioned earlier they've got 400 songs liscenced. Though I see there's also more than 16 songs announced. There were only 16 on the wiki page.
Interview and gameplay:
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As cheesy as that looked, I think this might be a first day purchase for me lol.#RespectTheCultureComment
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