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There's a rock band in my living room

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I picked this up for my son who turned 16 today. He has three of his friends over for the night. Not surprisingly, they were all very excited to see his present. We set it up immediately and they have been playing for almost two hours non-stop and are having a blast. We have one on drums, one on guitar, one on bass (using the wireless guitar from Guitar Hero III), and one on vocals. The drums weren't too difficult for them on easy, and I don't believe they are "as loud as a donkey bleeding to death in a metal barn." (I love that!) My wife and I are thoroughly enjoying watching them and can't wait to try it out ourselves.

Bottom line, if you don't have others to play along with, it will probably not be a very fun or exciting game to own. However, if you have enough friends to form "a band," this will be an immediate hit!

This Game Rocks!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is the most fun video game I've ever played. Not only getting together with my family to form a band is a ton of fun, but getting caught in the world of our own created band, "The Plague" is such a blast.

Rock Band XBOX 360

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Rock Band is an amazing game. The graphics are great, but there are a couple of differences from Guitar Hero 2/3. On this game I notice you have to nail the notes right on the head to get credit for them. In GH you were able to smudge it a little bit, but here there is no mercy. Also, I don't like having to make characters for every instroment when you are going on world tour. I don't understand why I have to do that as it just takes longer to get to playing. Also, if you accidently back out of the game you have to go through the character process all over again. Besides that, the songs are great and game play is very fun (especially if you are with a group of people and you had a few to drink before playing).

Awesome!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is the perfect game for anyone between the ages of 10 and 90. I purchased this for my teenager and it became a wonderful family pass time! The only draw back that I've found is that the selection of songs is limited. I'm sure that will change as this game becomes more popular.

Very nice package once you get the replacement guitar!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Bought the package as a Christmas gift for the kids. I wasn't expecting much at the price, but I was pleasantly surprised at the overall quality and value of Rock Band. I was forewarned to expect the strummer on the guitar to lose its elasticity, so I wasn't shocked when it happened with 2 hours of play. It was still useable, but made the game far more difficult and less engaging to play.

Ordered the replacement right away and got it three days after Christmas. The replacement was a refurbished job, but it feels so much better and has held up for two weeks of heavy use. There's no hint of degredation to the strummer in that time.

I can't put a price on the good times this outfit has provided my family. Both me and my wife join in with the kids and have had a blast with it. My son told me that I pose no threat to Dave Grohl's job as singer for the Foo Fighters after I butchered on Christmas day at the family gathering :-)

This is a great ice breaker for most gatherings and seems to be a real crowd pleaser even among those who are ordinarily not fans of rock music. I've discovered a few bands in playing this that I would have otherwise never even thought of giving a listen to.

Rockband Christmas

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This one of of the kids favorite gifts this year. All of their friends came over and had a blast with it also. Very easy to set up and get going. I highly recommend this to anyone, of all ages.An added plus was being able to use the guitar from our Guitar Hero Game.

Rock Band Rocks !!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Rock Band Special Edition was a gift to my son and his girlfriend for the holidays. He has not stopped playing it except to go to work..that's right this is not just for kids...We must of had over 20 people playing this in New Jersey before we had it shipped to California where they live. Everyone absolutely loves this.

Best. Game. Ever.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am working in Iraq, and we bought this game for our TV room. The first night we got it, we stayed up until 1AM, playing it. It's a blast. It is always a big hit at parties.

Just what the game name says

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was new to the world of Guitar Hero when the third one came out. Curious to what it was I bought it ( I too am a musician so the concept interested me). I fell in love. It was such a fun game to play with friends and even by your self. A truly innovative classic.

Mere months later, Rock Band came out. I was overwhellmed with choices. Should I buy Guitar Hero II or this? I ended up spending near $100 more, but I feel Rock Band was the right choice in the end.

With it's innovative gameplay, Rock Band offers you the choice of being a vocalist, bassist, guitarist or drummer. You can play with up to 4 people, or by your self if you lack gamer friends (or friends in general). It is one of the best party games I have ever played, but alone it is also quite fun. I was also quite impressed with the graphics of this game, but It looks somewhat too cartoony to match other Xbox 360 games such as Halo 3 or Gears of War. Who's complaining though right?

The band story mode is just what you think. You and some friends start a band, start out small and eventually go to the bigger stages of being in a rock band. The only problem I had with it was how easy it was. On guitar, I beat the game on hard in no time, where as on Guitar Hero II beating "Raining Blood" took me forever. It is a good think for gamers who have never played a game like this before, but for veterans it is dissapointing. I like the whole idea, losing fans when you fail a song etc, but the fact that you have to increase difficulty as the songs difficulty increases is dumb. I like staying at a consistent difficulty when playing any game. Other than that, there are no flaws that I can see in Rock Band's multiplayer story mode.

Single player it is a little different. It is still fun just as Guitar Hero is, but compared to the multiplayer it seems like it lacks. It's not all bad though. Playing by yourself can be quite fun! I was just stating that if you compare it to multiplayer mode, it falls short. All in all, it is quite good.

The soundtrack sort of dissapointed me. "I Think I'm Paranoid" and "Dead On Arrival" just sicken me. I like that you can download tracks, but the core tracks are sort of weak. The cover of "Mississippi Queen" is god awful in this game. Why couldn't they put a Slayer song or a Megadeth song? The lack of punk rock is apparent too (but that is as expected, for punk rock is quite exclusive anyway). I like alot of the songs, but the emo, southern rock and pop don't really make me as happy as "One", "Story of My Life" or "Raining Blood" did on GHIII.

All in all, I really love this game. I reccomend it to anyone with a PS2, PS3, Xbox 360 or (!) Wii. It is now only $150, and you can always just buy the core game and then buy the instruments one by one. Great fun for everyone.

Rockband is awesome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Really, this game is awesome. This game lets me fulfill my wet-dream fantasies of being a rocker, sans the groupies. As for the complaints, the guitar portion of the game seems to be slightly easier than the Guitar Hero series. Also, my guitar arrived with a defective strum bar (the unit was sent back to EA for replacement, which I'm still waiting for). I love you harmonix.

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