Does Def Jam solve whatever problem was keeping rap games from working well in the past?
I haven’t played the few rap games that were released before Def Jam. I was scared off by poor reviews. This game granted me a simple experience: I could finally rap along to A Tribe Called Quest’s The Scenario and see how well I did based on a scoring algorithm. I tried to trick the game. I mumbled and hummed. It wasn’t fooled. I found that the game could tell when I was faking and when I was trying. It could track my pace and flow, if not my deviation from a miserable monotone. I did feel like I was being asked to rap well, which turns out to be hard, since rap lyrics include a lot more words, at a faster clip, than most rock songs. I enjoyed the challenge. I have no interest in singing when I play Rock Band, because I not only can’t carry a tune, but never was crazy about rock. My musical fantasy isn’t to be the lead singer of The Beatles. It’s to be Chuck D. What about this video stuff? Does the camera help? The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Rapstar allow you to plug a cam
