American Idol
Complete with a computer generated Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul, and Simon Cowell, with trademark insults, American Idol is a music-based, rhythm-action game that will allow you to create, style, and train a…
American Idol is a music developed by Mobius Entertainment, released 7 November 2003 on PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What American Idol is
American Idol is a music game developed by Mobius Entertainment and released in 2003. It was published by Codemasters. It is available on PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Complete with a computer generated Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul, and Simon Cowell, with trademark insults, American Idol is a music-based, rhythm-action game that will allow you to create, style, and train a contestant for the competition. Once styled and trained you'll see your contestant progress through the auditions, various heats, and then, hopefully, make it to the grand final. You'll need quick fingers as you match the right combination of buttons to what's displayed on the screen helping your contestant sing a sweet harmony and dance to the rhythm of the song. Get it wrong and your voice fades and goes out of tune as the judges and later the audience grow unsettled.
How it plays
It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the American Idol series
American Idol is the first of 3 entries we hold in the American Idol series. The next entry was American Idol in 2003.
How it was received
American Idol holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 67% of the 483 rated music games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
What it launched against
American Idol launched on 7 November 2003, within three weeks of Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.
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