What’s that addition? The long awaited “Duet mode.” Finally songs like “California Dreamin’” can be sung like they originally are: with harmonies—as opposed to the traditional SingStar style of “You sing a line or two then I’ll sing a line or two and the original audio will do the rest!” It’s a blast singing the few harmony-enabled songs with friends, but that’s just it: there are not nearly enough of them to warrant purchase for this addition alone, and all it accomplished was to make me wonder why they didn’t try to select more songs which would utilize the new feature.

When you get down to it, SingStar Vol. 2 just doesn’t make sense as a purchase if you own the original SingStar PS3 and have a broadband connection. If you were to purchase 30 songs on your own via the SingStore, you’re only going to pay $5 bucks more than you would by buying Vol. 2. I don’t know about you, but to me it makes a lot more sense to just download 30 songs I know I’ll enjoy rather than save $5 by getting a few songs I love and some that I don’t.

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