High School Musical: Makin' the Cut!

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High School Musical: Makin' the Cut!
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Developer(s) A2M
Publisher(s) Disney Interactive Studios
Platform(s) Nintendo DS
Release
  • NA: August 14, 2007
  • EU: October 19, 2007
  • AU: November 15, 2007
Genre(s) Music video game
Mode(s) Single player, Multiplayer

High School Musical: Makin' the Cut! is a video game based on the 2006 television movie High School Musical available for the Nintendo DS. It was featured on Disney 365, airing on Disney Channel, hosted by Chester at the time.

Contents

Gameplay

The main game's gameplay is a takeoff of the Japanese rhythm game Osu! .

Songs are sung by cover artists, and not the original artists.

It starts when Sharpay signed up the gang auditioning for a national music competition. They have problems in between (i.e.: Taylor thinking Chad is cheating on her, while Chad was just scared of heights since the other part of the competition would be held at a high altitude).

There are three different types of gameplay: Dance, music, and video making showdowns.

Songs

Reception

The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [1]

See also

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