An Insight into High
School Musical Games
It is fascinating to see how a new technology is used
so effectively for promotion and reaching to the target audience.
Whenever technology creates a new invention, the advertising world uses
the creation and identifies innumerable avenues to promote a product,
idea, concept or a brand. Gaming is one extraordinary discovery. It is
an outstanding avenue to advertise and gain extra shelf life for a
product. So when movies stepped into the Online Game arena it was not
surprising. Especially movie for the youth and teenagers are
increasingly using the gaming arena to their advantage. In fact online
gamers look forward to the games as much as they await the movies. High
School Musical is a perfect example for this.
The success of the movie has soared up the sales of
the video games, online consoles and other gaming devices. With High
school Musical: Sing It, Sony PlayStation has for the first has created
an interaction platform between the fans and the movie characters. The
game tickles the creative side of the players by allowing them to mix
and match the movie characters with scenes and songs. The fans of the
movies get to be a part of the musical with the unique Sing and Dance to
All the songs, Perform in either Single or Duet Mode and Motion
Capturing choreography features.
The High School Musical Solus appeals to the all age
groups. The player can choose from three modes – Story, Party and
QuickPlay. They choose from their favourite characters of the movies –
Gabriella, Troy, Ryan, Taylor or Chad. The fans can live the movies and
compete amongst each other. With the High School Musical Solus (PS2),
players are allowed to sing solo, in a duet or have a karaoke party with
up to 7 friends. Players can sing through the entire soundtrack from the
original and second movies and play with more than 10 main characters.
There are rewards that are unveiled along the way.
With the High School Musical 2 one can also enjoy
some additional feature – The Adventure Mode which allows the fans to
take tasks from the movie characters of the movie. The players need to
locate and fetch a list of items. Some of the other tasks included
playing rhythms games. The game arcade also has some fascinating games
such as - golf, basketball and Cooking Mama. The songs from the movie
continue to play as the fans work through the adventure. Many of the
games can be played in different backgrounds and scenario. So the same
games when replayed are still interesting. Some of the other amazing
feature is High School Musical: Making the Cut and Elite.
The High School Musical 3 of course included the
interesting features of the previous two movies but Dance was the key
highlight of this version. This movie was translated in the Wii version,
other versions for the Xbox 360, PS2, and the PC. The games that
challenge the fans in this series are Dance Along with three levels of
difficulty, compete with other players and conduct personality quizzes.
A common feature that underlines all the versions is
that these are family games targeted at all age groups.
Some of
the other popular online games are High School Musical Dress Up, High
School Musical Lyrics and Zac Efron. With the launch of the movies and
every subsequent follow-up the online gaming world more options to the
fans and players. As the name suggests the High School Musical Dress Up
game allows the players to choose from a wide range of clothing to dress
up their favourite character. A separate game is created for Zac Efron
fans.
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