XFACTOR - mobile phone game

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Directional button - Move cursor, change selected options in menus, Character Creation and navigate Progress screen and Training area.

Use the numeric keypad 1-9 to play the 5 different mini-games in training, rehearsal and the main performance, match the numbers to those onscreen.

Softkeys are context sensitive, allowing you to choose confirm or back out of options and screens, or access a pause menu, depending on where you are in the game.

Choose a gender.

After this press the 0 key at any point to randomly generate a character.

Please select a body by pressing left and right. You can change skin tones by pressing up and down. Once you have made your selection, please press ok.

Please select some eyes by pressing left and right and then press ok.

Select a nose by pressing left and right and press ok.

Please select a mouth by pressing left and right and press ok.

Please select a hair style by pressing left and right. You can change the hair colour by pressing up and down. Press ok to confirm your desired hair style.

Please enter the name of your contestant between 2 and 7 letters long. Press the # key to delete a letter.

Once you have customised your appearance, decide what starting skills your character will specialise in. You have three points to distribute between the 5 skills, you can only assign one point per skill. Depending on your skills some songs will be easier or harder than others to perform. During the game, you will train with your mentor to increase the skills and aid your progress through the game.

Each of the 5 games relates directly to your characters 5 skills.

Rhythm: To score a HIT! Push the corresponding number when the ring around it has shrunk in size and is nearly touching the edge of the number. Watch the numbers flash to the beat, to get into the hit rhythm.

Emotion: To score a HIT! Push the corresponding number when it falls into one of the 3 activation rings, watch the numbers flash to the beat to help get into the hit rhythm.

Breathing: To score a HIT! Push the corresponding number when it is inside the activation ring, watch the numbers flash to the beat to help get into the hit rhythm.

Power: To score a HIT! Push the corresponding number before it drops off the screen. You must press the number only when it flashes to the beat, otherwise you will MISS!

Range: To score a HIT! Push the corresponding numbers only when they flash to the beat! You must work your way through the range going from the lowest numbers to the highest.

During the training sessions, you have the opportunity to work on two of your skills relating to the song you’re going to perform in the live show. Your mentor will tell you what song you’re going to perform, and the skills that are important to the song.

Your Mentor will assign one of the skills to train in Mentor Training (click on your mentor), the other you can pick yourself in your Personal Training area (navigate left or right depending on your current location to find this)

As you progress through the game, you will unlock more skills that you can train, giving you the freedom to train and improve in whichever area you feel is best.

Once you’ve completed your training, you can go to straight to the live performance if you’re feeling confident, or you can rehearse in the training room. Rehearsal gives you a chance to practice the full song without the pressure of a live studio audience! Feel free to practice as much as you need until you are ready.

If you’ve failed your training for this round, you might want to retry, you can do this by going to the door and selecting Retry instead of Go to Show.

The pressure is on! During the live performance, you need to score as many hits as you can to accumulate the most votes and see off the fierce competition. Your skill will dictate whether you go through the next round.

If you consistently perform well, the studio manager will activate more effects, making your song that bit more special, boosting public opinion and your popularity score.

You can watch the X Factor bar at the top of the screen as you play – this fills up as you score hits, and decreases if you miss. Fill the bar to activate all the studio effects, and rack up a huge score!

The competition is not just about making it through the final – you need to convince the viewing public that you have the X Factor by performing well and giving them a great show every time you step onto the stage. Your popularity score accumulates throughout the rounds, so it’s not enough to save your talents for the final show.

You may win the recording contract, but will your single chart at number 1? The public will decide based on the entertainment you’ve provided!

So listen to your mentor, be diligent with your personal training, rehearse until you’re perfect and then wow the public as the hottest new talent of the year!