With just under a week to go, I thought it was about time this game got it's own thread.
Platforms: XBOX 360, PS3, PS2
Release Date: November 20th, 2007(December 19th in Canada), December 11th 2007(ps2)
Website:
http://www.rockband.com
Price: $169.99
The most anticipated music rhythm game ever, Rock Band brings together Guitar, Bass, Drums, and Vocals for the ultimate band experience. Not only does it feature a setlist(45 main/13 bonus) containing some of the biggest bands of the past few decades , there will also be continuing downloadable content with tons of new songs as well as albums. (and yes, you can buy per-song instead of forced bundles). There will be online quickplay for up to four people, mix and match online and offline however you wish.
"Band World Tour" mode is the insane campaign mode where you create your characters and travel around the globe gaining fans and playing gigs.
Check out the full scoop here:
http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/puzzle/r...result;title;0
I would summarize it but there is seriously so much stuff it's worth reading the whole thing.
There's just been an update on the main website, theres tons of new videos of the character creation and clothing, etc, it's awesome. There is going to be another huge update the day the game comes out that will have all these social networking tools for getting people together to rock, it's gonna be nuts.
Officially announced songs are as followed: (thanks to cezar515 @ official RB forums)
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, 6:0
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, 5:0
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, 4:5
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, 5:0
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, 4:5
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream - Cherub Rock
(1993, 4:1
Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album) - Say It Ain't So
(1994, 2:5
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, 3:3
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, 3:3
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
(2000, ?:??) Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld - ? - Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld
(2005, 2:51) The Konks - The Konks - 29 Fingers
(2006, 2:54) Flyleaf - Flyleaf - I'm So Sick
(2006, 3:02) The Acrobats - ...Go Down Swinging - Day Late, Dollar Short
(2007, ?:??) Anarchy Club - The Way and the Power - Blood Doll
(2007, 3:39) Bang Camaro - Bang Camaro - Pleasure (Pleasure)
(2007, ?:??) Crooked X - Crooked X - Nightmare
(2007, ?:??) Death of the cool - ? - Can't Let Go
(2007, 2:10) Freezepop - Future Future Future Perfect - Brainpower
(2007, 3:06) The Mother Hips - Kiss the Crystal Flake - Time We Had
(2007, ?:??) Vagiant - ? - Seven
(200?, ?:??) Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives - ? - I Get By
(????, ?:??) Tribe - ? - Outside
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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
(1991) Nirvana - Nevermind
* (5:01) Smells Like Teen Spirit
* (3:39) Come as You Are
* (3:03) Breed
* (4:17) Lithium
* (2:57) Polly
* (2:22) Territorial Pissings
* (3:43) Drain You
* (2:36) Lounge Act
* (3:32) Stay Away
* (3:16) On a Plain
* (3:55) Something in the Way
- The new Made In Mexico album
Songs
(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
- 13 More Grateful Dead Songs
(1988, 7:24) Metallica - ...And Justice for All - One
- Some Metallica Songs
Police Pack
(1978, 3:13) The Police - Outlandos d'Amour - Roxanne
(1978, 3:02) The Police - Outlandos d'Amour - Can't Stand Losing You
(1983, 5:04) The Police - Synchronicity - Sychronicity II
QOTSA Pack
(2005, 2:54) Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze - Little Sister
(2007, 3:34) Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris - 3s and 7s
(2007, 3:34) Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris - Sick, Sick, Sick
Black Sabbath Pack
(1970, 6:07) Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath - N.I.B.
(1971, 7:5
Black Sabbath - Paranoid - War Pigs
(1971, 5:05) Black Sabbath - Master of Reality - Sweet Leaf
David Bowie Pack
(1971, 3:1
David Bowie - Hunky Dory - Queen Bitch
(1972, 4:39) David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust... - Moonage Daydream
(1977, 6:07) David Bowie - Heroes - Heroes
Punk Pack
(1977, 2:06) The Ramones - Rocket to Russia - Rockaway Beach
(1978, 2:40) The Buzzcocks - Love Bites - Ever Fallen in Love
(1979, 2:40) The Clash - The Cost of Living - I Fought the Law
Individual Songs
(1969, 2:19) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
(1971, 4:27) T. Rex - Electric Warrior - Bang a Gong (Get It On)
(1976, 2:20) The Runaways - The Runaways - Cherry Bomb
(1979, 4:52) The Knack - Get the Knack - My Sharona
(1980, 3:01) Pretenders - Pretenders - Brass in Pocket
(1981, 4:19) Foreigner - 4 - Juke Box Hero
(1994, 2:40) Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album) - Buddy Holly
(1995, 4:36) Radiohead - The Bends - My Iron Lung
(2005, 4:40) Wolfmother - Wolfmother - Joker and the Thief
"Ride the Lightning"--Metallica
"Blackened"--Metallica
"And Justice for All"--Metallica
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go here for all the songs with links to the youtube videos:
http://community.rockband.com/vbforu...ead.php?t=3655
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Price for DLC is currently unannounced but we should be hearing very soon.
Also announced today was plans of bringing the experience outside of the game with exclusive merchandise
http://kotaku.com/gaming/rock-band/r...ion-322329.php
"We're going to be able to export to your web pages, and from there you'll be able to take your band avatars, pose them, create album covers with your band logo and different scenes with your avatars. And then you'll be able to turn that into real world stuff. For example, figurines based upon your Rock Band avatars, t-shirts with your fake band's album art and your tour dates on the back from your accomplishments within the game, bumper stickers, old records, things like that. Really cool real-world merchandise based on this fictitious band that you've created in the game."
This was from a recent interview with Alex Rigopulos of Harmonix,
some other interesting tidbits include "That said, we have insanely ambitious plans in this area and we do plan to get literally hundreds of songs in the first year alone, expanding to what I hope is thousands of songs in the years that follow."
"One possibility that we?re actually considering is releasing our own authoring tools out freely into the world, such that if you?re a band and you and your three friends are in your bedroom or garage making music, and no major label will even give you the time of day but you believe in your music, you can actually produce a game level yourself and send it to us for publishing on the game servers or distributing to your friends. So that?s a possibility, user generated game content, this could explode the productive capacity of content for the platform."
source:
http://www.oxmonline.com/article/fea...-oxm-interview
:O
Anyone else picking it up? Maybe we can get a polycount jam session going [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
UPDATE:
Looks like DLC pricing has been announced.
5.49 for 3 song bundles, individual songs 1.99 each.
Songs will be 99c to 3$ in the future, with most being 1.99
Metallica DLC pack also announced:
"Ride the Lightning"--Metallica
"Blackened"--Metallica
"And Justice for All"--Metallica
source:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6182927.htm...estnews;title;0
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