[Multiplatform] Rock Band: Soon to be available for thirty billion Euros

If this game manages to meet at least half of its' potential, it might be the one that gets me to buy a 360. Guitar Hero 2 intrigues me, but the real value will be in downloadable songs (which hasn't taken off yet) and the same goes for this one. If they're bringing out, say, 10 songs or so every 2 months and they're ones I want, yeah I'll be glad to get in on the action. I think Rock Band might a little too ambitious, but I'm pulling for it.

I think what they should do is have a line-up of 200 songs or so for download and allow the user to download, say, 30 of them when they buy the game, as opposed to having a "set" line-up. Sort of like a musical MUGEN (start with nothing, then just add the tracks you want).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Depends on how much equipment they want to buy, I'd guess. I imagine the mic, drums and guitar will also be sold seperately. Maybe you could colaborate and have one person buy the game and a guitar, another the game and the drums, etc.

Though there's nothing official, my guess is the whole bundle will run about $200 and include vouchers for some downloaded material (like, say, 20 songs or something). Considering, unlike Steel Battalion, the stuff will actually have a use, it seems pretty fair to me.

It could be worse: They could force you to buy the official Rock Band amplifier too!



I'm more interested in how they'll be handling playing the downloaded music online. What if you want to play a song no one else has downloaded to their 360/PS3?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Is anyone else psyched about the whole DLC deal? Aside from having a lot of stuff, the main setlist kinda sucks (though they added some cool songs at the last minute..."Run to the Hills", "Ballroom Blitz" (though not the awesome Krokus version...damn!) and "Flirtin with Disaster), but for about $8 extra, I get the guitar, drums and vocals for "Justice for All", "Ride the Lightning" (and Blackened is thrown in with the Metallica bundle, which ain't bad at all) and "Joker and the Thief". That's...damn, I want this game NOW!

I'm not an advocate for paying for additional content, but in this case, if there's a particular song I want to dissect, it's worth it.

List of songs in Rock Band - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Edit: Anyone else find it kind of strange Metallica's one of the groups leading the charge for downloadable content?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I like Guitar Hero III, but I'm not a massive fan of the song selection...I thought there was a lot of crap in there (either lousy songs or songs that had lackluster patterns to play) and it wasn't as fun as II (some stinkers, but generally solid with a lot of TEH EPIC) or 80's (few songs, but only 3 I didn't fully enjoy and has my two favorites songs of all time in the setlist). Rock Band is geared towards DLC as well, so while I think it has the weaker tracklist ATM, it will offer a lot more in the future. And that's for 4 parts, two of which are pretty new and offer stuff GH doesn't.

All I know is I subconsciously sing to my favorite GH tracks while playing, so it'll be really cool to stick a mic in front and get points for it on top of that. Now if they can just bring over "Electric Eye" and "Nothin' But a Good Time", I'll be set...

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