High School Musical: Sing It is a fairly good game with some replay value and nice extras (like dance lessons and cast interviews). One USB microphone is included, although a second is required for effective two-player play.
The main story mode takes you through the story of the first movie, narrated by Kelsi, singing the songs in sequence. You'll play that once and then mostly use Quick mode and Party mode. Getting high points unlocks additional songs, characters, costumes and styles which can be used to create a custom character.
As with every movie spin-off, some sacrifices have clearly been made to get it to market quickly. A few of the niggles are:
- The menu options are very small and it is difficult to select them quickly with the Wii remote
- Text entry is ludicrous - rather than displaying all the letters on screen and pointing them out, you instead have to point to small left and right arrows to scroll through letters and select them one at a time.
- While you can select which part of a song you wish to sing (e.g. Troy or Gabriella in "Breaking Free"), the parts are only described as "Part 1", "Part 2" or "mix", rather than specifying the character(s).
- There is no indication whether you are supposed to be singing harmony or melody at any given time.
However, this game has got my partner, who is anti-HSM, interested in singing and playing, and I think it'll have the same effect for many others.