Rock Band!

[Matt Young 0]

I'll be getting both. It takes a lot for a cheapass like myself to part with $200, much less be eager to do so. I already wanted Rock Band (I had discussed with friends how awesome it would eb before it was even announced) but check out that video link I posted if you're skeptical.

[KingPK 0]

$200 is not bad at all for the bundle. I saw the demo on G4 and was completely blown away.

 

But where's the cowbell peripheral for "Don't Fear The Reaper"?

 

 

"I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell!"

[Matt Young 0]

$200 is not bad at all for the bundle. I saw the demo on G4 and was completely blown away.

 

But where's the cowbell peripheral for "Don't Fear The Reaper"?

 

 

"I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell!"

 

It has been stated that the microphone will double as a tambourine and cowbell by tapping it.

[luke-o 0]

200 bucks is really cheap when you think about what your getting. But why is the guitar 20 bucks more on the 360 than the PS3?

 

Oh, and Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline

 

And they could have picked so many other good Foo tracks, but they went for the obvious one. Lame. I'm not a fan of Metallica but I would have prefered Sad but True to Sandman.

[Downhome 0]

The time is almost here. I have it on pre-order, I have the money to pay it off right now, and I'm more than ready to finally own it.

[Mike wanna be 0]

So why are Metallica songs suddenly appearing in music games? Did they lower their price, or are the makers just ponying up the money?

[At Home 0]

So what's the hype over this game? You get drums and a second guitar? Cool?

[Downhome 0]

You've gotta try it out. Go to your nearest Best Buy and play the demo.

[At Home 0]

I have guitar hero, I don't see how it's any different. At all.

[Downhome 0]

It's different because it's pretty much 3-4 games in one, 3-4 fully fleshed out games. Guitar, bass, drums, and karaoke. All four modes are excellent, especially the drums. Add to that the fact that they have already announced an ass load of downloadable content, including full albums for certain bands, and I don't see how you can go wrong.

 

Plus it has Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld from South Park as a playable song.

 

<a href="http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/897/897524/vids_1.html" target="_blank">http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/897/897524/vids_1.html</a>

 

From the GAF board:

 

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=204875

 

I was inspired by the thread over at "the other" forums and decided that it was long enough that we had to wait for one of these so here it is.

 

*It goes (Year Recorded, Time of Song) Band - Album - Song

COVERS = **

 

Main Setlist

1960's

(1969, 4:31) Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed - Gimme Shelter

 

1970's

**(1970, 2:50) Black Sabbath - Paranoid - Paranoid

**(1970, 2:30) Mountain - Climbing! - Mississippi Queen

(1971, 6:08) Deep Purple - Machine Head - Highway Star

(1971, 8:32) The Who - Who's Next - Won't Get Fooled Again

(1972, 3:25) David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - Suffragette City

**(1973, 4:06) Sweet - Desolation Boulevard - Ballroom Blitz

**(1974, 5:33) Aerosmith - Get Your Wings - Train Kept A-Rollin'

**(1975, 9:49) The Outlaws - Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides

(1975, 2:10) The Ramones - Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop

(1976, 7:47) Boston - Boston - Foreplay/Long Time

(1976, 5:08) Blue Öyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune - Don't Fear the Reaper

(1976, 5:20) Kiss - Destroyer - Detroit Rock City

(1978, 2:50) The Police - Outlandos d'Amour - Next To You

(1979, 4:58) Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster - Flirtin' With Disaster

 

1980's

**(1980, 4:33) Rush - Moving Pictures - Tom Sawyer

**(1982, 3:50) Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast - Run To The Hills

(1982, 3:06) The Clash - Combat Rock - Should I Stay or Should I Go

(1986, 5:08) Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet - Wanted Dead or Alive

(1988, 4:51) Faith No More - The Real Thing - Epic

(1988, 3:51) R. E. M. - Green - Orange Crush

(1989, 2:04) Pixies - Doolittle - Wave of Mutilation

 

1990's

(1991, 5:30) Metallica - Metallica (The Black Album) - Enter Sandman

(1991, 4:14) Nirvana - Nevermind - In Bloom

(1992, 3:59) Radiohead - Pablo Honey - Creep

(1993, 4:58) The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream - Cherub Rock

(1993, 4:18) Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album) - Say It Ain't So

(1994, 2:58) Beastie Boys - Ill Communication - Sabotage

(1994, 5:17) Soundgarden- Superunknown - Black Hole Sun

(1994, 2:56) Stone Temple Pilots - Purple - Vasoline

(1997, 2:42) Hole - Celebrity Skin - Celebrity Skin

(1998, 3:38) Garbage - Version 2.0 - I Think I'm Paranoid

(1999, 3:57) Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left to Lose - Learn to Fly

 

2000's

(2001, 2:33) The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious - Main Offender

(2002, 3:07) Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf - Go with the Flow

(2003, 3:14) Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave - Dead on Arrival

(2003, 3:33) Jet - Get Born - Are You Gonna Be My Girl

(2003, 2:53) The New Pornographers - Electric Version - Electric Version

(2003, 4:21) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell - Maps

(2004, 3:35) The Strokes - Room on Fire - Reptilia

(2005, 6:15) Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness - Welcome Home

(2005, 3:38) Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth - The Hand That Feeds

(2005, 2:59) Ok Go - Oh No - Here It Goes Again

(2006, 3:40) The Killers - Sam's Town - When You Were Young

(2006, 4:40) Red Hot Chili Peppers- Stadium Arcadium- Dani California

 

Bonus Songs

(2005, 2:51) The Konks - The Konks - 29 Fingers

(2007, ?:??) Anarchy Club - A Single Drop of Red - A Single Drop of Red

(2007, 3:39) Bang Camaro - Bang Camaro - Pleasure (Pleasure)

(2007, 2:10) Freezepop - Future Future Future Perfect - Brainpower

(2007, ?:??) Vagiant - ???????? - Seven

 

Downloadable Content

Albums

(1971) The Who - Who's Next

(5:00) Baba O'Riley

(5:33) Bargain

(2:12) Love Ain't for Keeping

(3:41) My Wife

(6:16) The Song Is Over

(4:50) Getting in Tune

(3:42) Going Mobile

(3:42) Behind Blue Eyes

 

Songs

(1977, 2:06) The Ramones - Rocket to Russia - Rockaway Beach

 

(1970, 3:15) The Grateful Dead - American Beauty - Sugar Magnolia

(1970, 5:09) The Grateful Dead - American Beauty - Truckin'

(1970, 4:24) The Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead - Casey Jones

(1970, 4:42) The Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead - Uncle John's Band

(1987, 5:50) The Grateful Dead - In the Dark - Touch Of Grey

 

(1988, 7:24) Metallica - ...And Justice for All - One

 

- 13 More Grateful Dead Songs

 

- Some Metallica Songs

 

11/02 BONUS SONGS REVELATION (Special RockThanks to to Sp3eD.)

 

(2005, 2:55) Flyleaf - Flyleaf - I'm So Sick

(2007, 3:06) The Mother Hips - Kiss the Crystal Flake - Time We Had

(????, ?:??) Anarchy Club - ???????? - Blood Doll

(2006, 3:02) The Acrobrats - ...Go Down Swinging! - Day Late, Dollar Short

(????, 4:22) Crooked X - ??????? - Nightmare

 

11/08: OXM DLC MEGATON!!!

 

Police pack: Roxanne, Synchronicty II, Cant stand losing you, all masters

Queens of the stone age pack: 3s and 7s, Sick Sick Sick, Little Sister, all masters

Metallica pack: A three or six song pack, no songs announced yet

Black Sabbath pack: N.I.B, Sweet Leaf, War Pigs, all covers

David Bowie: Moonage Dreak, Heroes, Queen Bitch

Punk Pack: Ever fallen in love, by Buzzcocks, cover, I fought the law, by clash, Rockaway Beach by Ramones

 

Single Songs:

 

Fortunate Son- Credence Clearwater Revival

Juke Box Hero- Foreigner

My Sharona- The Knack

Cherry Bomb- The Runaways

Bang a Gong- T-Rex

Joker and the Thief- Wolfmother

Brass in a Pocket- Pretenders

My Irong Lung- Radiohead

Buddy Holly- Weezer

 

Harmonix: Packs will always be available as packs or as single downloads in case you only want one of the songs.

[luke-o 0]

That is an ass load of songs, but there are only 16 tracks I'd genuinly want to play. And even then I would have picked other tracks.

[EricMM 0]

What.

[fazzle 0]

I hope they find some way to NEATLY sort all that DLC on the marketplace. I don't want to spend 20 minutes looking for one song.

[Downhome 0]

Wow, check out this eBay auction:

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Rock-Band-Special-Edit...1QQcmdZViewItem

[luke-o 0]

What.

 

I present you, the good songs on the playlist.

 

Plus it has Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld from South Park as a playable song.

 

1970's

**(1970, 2:50) Black Sabbath - Paranoid - Paranoid

(1975, 2:10) The Ramones - Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop

 

1980's

(1988, 4:51) Faith No More - The Real Thing - Epic

(1989, 2:04) Pixies - Doolittle - Wave of Mutilation

 

1990's

(1991, 5:30) Metallica - Metallica (The Black Album) - Enter Sandman

(1991, 4:14) Nirvana - Nevermind - In Bloom

(1992, 3:59) Radiohead - Pablo Honey - Creep

(1993, 4:58) The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream - Cherub Rock

(1993, 4:18) Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album) - Say It Ain't So

(1994, 2:58) Beastie Boys - Ill Communication - Sabotage

(1994, 5:17) Soundgarden- Superunknown - Black Hole Sun

(1994, 2:56) Stone Temple Pilots - Purple - Vasoline

(1997, 2:42) Hole - Celebrity Skin - Celebrity Skin

(1998, 3:38) Garbage - Version 2.0 - I Think I'm Paranoid

(1999, 3:57) Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left to Lose - Learn to Fly

 

2000's

(2003, 3:33) Jet - Get Born - Are You Gonna Be My Girl

(2003, 4:21) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell - Maps

(2005, 3:38) Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth - The Hand That Feeds

 

(1988, 7:24) Metallica - ...And Justice for All - One

 

Single Songs:

My Sharona- The Knack

My Irong Lung- Radiohead

Buddy Holly- Weezer

 

 

 

[Downhome 0]

I hope those of you that want this game pre-ordered:

 

http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars...-last-christmas

 

Rock Band is going to be a hot ticket this year, and since Ben is handling the review, I have to buy mine like a civilian. I just got off the phone with the EBGames and GameStop stores here in town and discovered an interesting fact: The Rock Band bundle is going to be very—VERY—hard to come by this holiday season.

 

I preordered Rock Band the day before Guitar Hero 3 was released, and that has turned out to be a good move. I called up my local EB (staffed by cool people, defying the stereotype) to check and see if they were doing a midnight release. Apparently EB/GameStop corporate has canceled the midnight launch parties at a number of stores. Many locations are only going to get enough units to cover their preorders and then...

 

...no more units until next year.

 

When I contacted another local GameStop, they told me the same thing and informed me that they were only allowed to sell four preorders for the whole store. They, as well, are expecting no additional Rock Band bundles until next year.

 

We made a few more calls in other areas of the country and there are still some stores having midnight launches, but everyone expressed doubts about restocks. If you're serious about getting the game, make the calls to your local stores, and get there early.

[Broward83 0]

So who's going to be up for starting a Rock Band?

 

I played the demo and suck at drums.. so in wanting to spare people my crap singing voice, I'll blend into the background and go with the bass.

[Matt Young 0]

So who's going to be up for starting a Rock Band?

 

I played the demo and suck at drums.. so in wanting to spare people my crap singing voice, I'll blend into the background and go with the bass.

 

You can't hear the vocalist online anyway.

[Broward83 0]

So who's going to be up for starting a Rock Band?

 

I played the demo and suck at drums.. so in wanting to spare people my crap singing voice, I'll blend into the background and go with the bass.

 

You can't hear the vocalist online anyway.

 

Whatever. Still doesn't change the fact I'm not pickin up the drums. Maybe one of TSM's more, rhythmically inclined members can take up those duties.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

I remain unconvinced about everything except for the track list. The microphone is lame and whacking fake drums isn't as satisfying as playing a fake guitar. I think you're going to end up with a lot of people buying just the software and playing it with their GH3 guitars.

[Downhome 0]

IGN Review:

 

Closing Comments

Rock Band is a great game. The presentation elements are top-notch and take music games to a new level; consider the bar raised. Though there are three separate solo careers, Rock Band is best experienced with a group of friends. The only major concerns are with the hardware. The guitar is inferior to other versions on the market and it seems likely that before Rock Band II arrives, many will have broken their drum kits (how long can you beat that thing before it dies?). Still, this is an excellent game overall. Anyone who invests the extra money to purchase some of the stellar downloadable content is certain to be playing Rock Band well into next year. Heck, you can tell by the mammoth size of this review just how much there is to say about Rock Band. Without question, Rock Band is one of the must-have games of the year.

 

The overall

 

10 Presentation

Simply amazing. The Band World Tour offers a fantastic new take on a career mode for a music game. The on-stage antics are above and beyond anything from Guitar Hero.

 

8.0 Graphics

The character models are nice and the 40+ venues have excellent detail.

 

9.0 Sound

Some of the 45 tracks offered are really not that great. But everything sounds good and having the crowd signing songs with you is an awesome experience.

 

9.0 Gameplay

There's no doubt that many of the guitar sections are meant for a more casual audience. The drums and vocals make up for this though. Band World Tour is solid.

 

9.5 Lasting Appeal

There are only 45 licensed tracks, and not all of them are great songs. But the BWT has legs and the upcoming downloadable content should extend the lifespan considerably.

 

9.4

Outstanding OVERALL

[Downhome 0]

From the IGN review:

 

...the World Tour mode becomes a good learning tool for aspiring drummers. I can get through the entire Guitar Hero series on expert, but I had a hard time just keeping up with medium on drums on a few songs the first time I played. However, the experience itself was great fun, and pushed me to work even harder. I eventually got through all the songs on hard, and can get through many on expert now. I will say that the transition from medium to hard seems like a big leap. Not only do you add the dreaded kick pedal (getting my foot and hands to do something completely different from one another proved to be a Zen experience where I had to turn off my brain and become one with the drum set), but you'll also be hitting two pads at once on several occasions, sometimes in conjunction with the kick pedal. On expert you're basically playing the real drum parts, so if you can do that, start a real band. You can also use Rock Band as a workout regimen, as you'll work up quite a sweat playing on hard or expert.

 

This just sounds so awesome indeed.

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

I have no idea where I'm going to find this on launch date, but I'm going to give it a shot. Maybe I'll get lucky and one of the chains that don't take preorders will have one.

[LooseCannon25 0]

So who's going to be up for starting a Rock Band?

 

I played the demo and suck at drums.. so in wanting to spare people my crap singing voice, I'll blend into the background and go with the bass.

 

You can't hear the vocalist online anyway.

 

 

That's pretty dumb. Then why even bother having a singer in an online band?

[MrRant 0]

I remain unconvinced about everything except for the track list. The microphone is lame and whacking fake drums isn't as satisfying as playing a fake guitar. I think you're going to end up with a lot of people buying just the software and playing it with their GH3 guitars.

 

I'll be using my GHII controller as the secondary one.

 

Whenever MS gets my fucking 360 back to me.

[Skywarp! 0]

I love the IGN video of "Timmy & the Lords of the Underworld." There's something about seeing the lyrics "Durr ahh dulip dah aah! Nyyeerr! Nygrah!" scroll across the screen that's hilarious.

[Downhome 0]

My cousin got very lucky. He called me last night to ask me a question around 11:30 or 12, and after that I got to talking to him about the eBay prices for Rock Band, reviews for it, and all of that. I called the local WalMart and asked if they had any of the 360 bundles, and they said they had two. Anyway, he ended up emailing me in the middle of the night, around 2am, letting me know he went to buy both. So, he'll keep one, eBay the other, and it'll just about pay for both of them.

[Black Lushus 0]

I hate video game scalpers...

[Broward83 0]

Game is pretty much as people expect it to be, which is damned good.

 

Going thru on Medium on Guitar. Just got to Chicago after playing the Rio set and doing a few of the DL songs. (Got the Metallica pack, the Police pack, and Juke Box Hero. Sucks that most of the songs are covers)

 

So, anyone that's up to start a Rock Band!!!!!, I'll join up on bass.

 

PS: Only flaw I can find is that on some instances, the guitar registers you pushing the orange fret button when you push the blue fret. It's fucked me up a few times.

[Ced 0]

Finally got to play the drums as they finally have a Rock Band demo setup at my local Best Buy. I've played DrumMania for eternity now, so the way Rock Band's drum pads are positioned feel awkward to me. The feel of the frets and strum on the new Rock Band guitar are going to take some getting used to as well.

 

I'm still on the fence on a purchase, but I'm leaning towards getting the full set while I still can.