As the SingStar week has continued I’ve battled to find large differences in the SingStar games themselves. After all, the games are essentially the same except for the songs. When an addition is added to the PS3 version of the game all the other games get the update too, making the game a large package that you buy expansions for. Come to think of it, it’s like a karaoke version of the Sims.

With all that said the songs are what make the game. You may have an amazing framework but with no music, you have no game. Queen, the group of Legends now has twenty-five of their greatest hits on SingStar for you to Dance, Sing and stomp your feet to. It should be noted that they have been given an extremely rare accolade, after Abba, of having a Solo SingStar game. Although some of the songs have been on previous SingStar games, it’s an absolute pleasure to have all of their great hits together.

Let’s look at this from a youth perspective though. If you’re under twenty you haven’t really had much of a Queen influence in your life have you? After all, they’re so old! You’d be extremely wrong. As you browse through Queen’s impressive titles, songs will come up that you only recognise when listening to. After running through the play list you’ll have said, at least ten times, ‘I didn’t know that was a Queen song.’

Besides the pleasant surprises you’ll be hit with the amazing anthem songs of Queen that we all know and love. Songs like, ‘We Will Rock You,’ ‘We are the Champions,’ and ‘Another One Bites the Dust.’

This ‘expansion’ to the SingStar series will help boost its number of tracks but it’s still lacking in comparison with Rock Band and Guitar Hero’s library. Sony needs to begin releasing more songs both online and on disk to attract a more diverse range of gamers. SingStar Queen is a step in the right direction, and I’m happy to pronounce it fun for young people, not just those of the Queen generation.

Included in both the PS3 and PS2 versions of Singstar Queen:

• Another One Bites the Dust
• Bicycle Race
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• Breakthru
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love
• Don’t Stop Me Now
• Fat Bottom Girls
• I Want it All
• I Want to Break Free
• Innuendo
• One Vision
• Play the Game
• Somebody to Love
• These are the Days of Our Lives
• Tie Your Mother Down
• Under Pressure
• We are the Champions
• We Will Rock You
• Who Wants to Live Forever
• You’re My Best Friend

Exclusive to the PS3 release:

• A Kind of Magic
• Hammer to Fall
• Killer Queen
• Radio Ga Ga
• The Show Must Go On