Edge: Def Jam Rapstar Preview

Edge: With the next wave of sophisticated post-Wii, motion-sensing technologies beginning to hit the market, Def Jam Rapstar is a stark reminder of how few games have successfully emulated Singstar’s essential insights about enticing massmarket players since the first game’s release six and-a-half years ago. The franchise obliterated not only the issues standard controllers present for many non-gamers, but also bypassed the partial solution – made a phenomenon by Guitar Hero the following year – of a special music peripheral as a videogame metaphor for the real thing.