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Songs:

1. Play The Game
2. Dragon Attack
3. Another One Bites The Dust
4. Need Your Lovin' Tonight
5. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
6. Rock It (Prime Jive)
7. Sail Away Sweet Sister
8. Don't Try Suicide
9. Coming Soon
10.Save Me

The first release was the well received A Night At The Opera. This is an awesome choice for the first release. Now they have released The Game hoping that America remembers that it used to like this album. Sure it was number one in the early 80's, and it had a couple of number one hits too. But, (not that I am complaining), I think Queen fans are really waiting for the classic 70's Queen catalogue to emerge in this sound format.
Brian May stated that he wants to release the entire Queen catalogue in this format, so if he keeps his word, he can release them in any order he wants.

The DVD opens up with Play The Game and the synthesized UFO whizzing through space noises seem to circle the listener, and faster and faster, and then land on top of you. Very nice effect. The backing vocals are mainly in the back speakers, and they sound great there. The guitar and synthesizer are very prominent in this song.
Freddie's voice sounds crystal clear and very dynamic.

Dragon Attack and Another One Bites The Dust are next. These are two very bass-oriented songs. The first written by Brian May and the latter penned by John Deacon. Dragon Attack although it has a disco-style bass lick as the main staple of the song, it is a heavy rock song with the guitars and drums. Freddie's voice is a little raspy in this song. Another One Bites The Dust has a bass lick that was lifted from either the Sugar Hill Gang's Rapper Delight, or Chic's Good Times, whichever came first. I think that this bass riff started in 1978 by one of the two bands I mentioned above. The surround sound makes good use when the synthesizers are used in this song.

Need Your Lovin' Tonight written by John Deacon sounds very sparse here. In comparison to the stereo version that we remember, this sounds almost like an unfinished demo. I think I may prefer the stereo version, I am not sure. I have to wait and see if I get used to it. Unless of course this is the way the song was intended to sound. Just a couple of hundred more listens and we'll see.

Crazy Little Thing Called Love is next written by Freddie Mercury. On the Hollywood release from 1991 this song starts off very funny and I was expecting to hear this song start off with that same glitch. It didn't. I love the way this song sounds. Also very sparse like Need Your Lovin', but this time it is a welcome. It sounds even more authentic this way.

Roger Taylor penned the next track, Rock It (Prime Jive). Freddie brilliantly sings the opening slow acoustic part, and then when the song kicks in Roger takes over the singing. This song is very addicting, it has those doo-wop type lyrics with a tinge of a rock-a-billy beat.

Sail Away Sweet Sister written by Brian is next. Brian also sings most of this song except for the middle eight sung by Freddie. This is almost a rock ballad, and is one of my favorite songs on the album.

Don't Try Suicide is written by Freddie. I like this song a lot. It has a clear message that suicide is dumb, egocentric and a waste of time and won't accomplish the attempter's hopes because "nobody gives a damn". It also has some strange lyrics that I don't understand like "baby when you do it, all you do is gets on my tits". This song also has a feel that compliments both Crazy Little Thing and Rock It.

Coming Soon is next. Roger Taylor writes this song. I remember reading on the official Queen website, that Brian was saying that he did not have the original tapes for this song, so making a 5.1 DTS or DVD-Audio transfer would prove a problem. I was interested in listening to this song to hear what would be done. It sounds like to me that they used an alternate version of the song or at least part of it, as the vocals sound very different.

Save Me written by Brian is actually a single that Queen released the year before the release of The Game. This true power ballad sounds awesome here.

I know that most reviews I read, the reviewer prefers the DVD-Audio version rather than the DTS, but I am not sure that I agree. On this disc, the differences in the two are very apparent. DTS seems to be a bit more dynamic in the volume of the lows and highs. They both sound great, but I still prefer the DTS sound rather than the DVD-Audio. The DTS to me, also sounds a little more separated, which I prefer.

When listening to the DVD-Audio, for some reason the on screen lyrics must be manually forwarded to the next verse and chorus by the listener, instead of automatically when listening to the DTS.

Also, I was surprised that there were no videos included. There were three released from this album, and it would have been nice if they were included. I guess since they just released the Queen's Greatest Video Hits, they figured what was the point.

Anyway, this order of release is following the now defunct gold disc Mobile Fidelity releases of A Night At The Opera, The Game, News Of The World and Day At The Races. Hopefully, this sound format will release them in this order also, because it would mean News of the World is next, and I think that it is still my favorite.