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Tremendous fun, but a step down from GH3

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Let me start by saying, this game is awesome. If you order it, you won't be sorry. However, there are things here and there, if you've played GH3, that are irritating or sad.

1. The guitar's strum toggle is sticky. Instead of a nice 'clack' so you know you've played a note, you just get a gradually increasing resistance to your strum. You're not sure exactly when you've played the note, and pushing it all the way really wears your strumming hand out quickly.

2. No more cut scenes. Come on, the cut scenes in GH3 were hilarious. Not exactly critical to the gameplay, but it would've taken ten minutes to just pop a funny animated story into Rock Band.

3. Some of the transcriptions (from music to falling colored blocks) are ridiculous. There are far too many songs where, on the guitar, you're simply wailing away on one note for what seems like a good two minutes. Hint: on Highway Star, I should not be playing rhythm guitar while listening to a faded-out, awesome lead guitar in the background.

4. The drums do not mix with downstairs neighbors, and apparently nobody in design gave this a second thought. We put towels under our set.

5. Sure, Queens of the Stone Age suck, but putting that aside, here are some beefier complaints about the song list: Cherub Rock and When You Were Young WERE IN GH3! If you were playing Super Mario World, and found yourself compelled to beat the underwater level from Super Mario Bros, you'd feel gypped. And so do I. 'Maps' isn't even a rock song. They specifically passed on the title "Elevator Music Band" for a reason.

All that said, I am still glad I own the game. If you like the musician-type games, this is a must-have.

$249 for PS 2 version?!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: December 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had so much fun with my version of the game, I came to Amazon to buy it for a friend. Wow, pretty nervy of Amazon.com to charge $100 over the suggested retail price I paid for the game just a few weeks ago! Are they taking advantage of the short supply? Why not just charge the retail price and when they're gone, they're gone. If you can wait for the supply to come back in, you'll save $150. Amazon, you've tarnished your usual sterling reputation with this move. Bad form.

Fun game, disappointing songs

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 17
Date: December 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We play this game as a family. The game itself is super fun. My husband even loves to play, and he hates video games. The instruments are great quality for game-playing (not for professional playing of course because, well, it's a game), especially considering it cost less than $200 for the game and 3 instruments (microphone, guitar, drumset).

We've only played on the easy level and are somewhere near the end. I can't imagine playing anything harder than the easy level because the drums and guitar both get very fast and difficult just at the easy level.

The big disappointment for us is the selection of songs. You have to wade through a lot of crap to get to the good stuff. A few great classic rock and alternative rock songs are thrown in among a slew of what I assume is Christian rock (because of the consistent mention of Jesus....?) and other unknown (and not good) songs. We'd love to see more from Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Metallica, ACDC, Violent Femmes...even DEVO and the B52's would be better than some of this stuff. Why the need for all the unknown and crappy stuff when there's an abundance of good stuff out there...?

Don't buy the package unless you are a drum enthusiast

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Almost $400 for this complete package is a ripoff. The game is great, but the package is not worth the PS2 Holiday pricetag. If you have guitar hero guitars, you are halfway there. Just think of this game as an extension to Guitar Hero, but with more popular rock songs that are taylored to the Karaoke crowd. And you can buy a Logitech microphone that works with Karaoke Revolution for only $4.99 at Best Buy. It works great with this game. Unless you're a drum enthusiast, the drums are not worth it IMO. Extremely difficult at times.

I prefer Guitar Hero

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 19
Date: December 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We set this game up, and after messing with the calibration for a half an hour finally got to play. We were horrible. I knew I had no rhythm but the drums were frustrating. In Guitar Hero I'm pretty good, I get about 98% or higher on medium level (still kinda suck on hard), but with rock band I almost fail easy songs. This leads me to believe that the calibration is STILL way off. I guess I'll have to drag this into my bedroom on my normal teeny tiny TV... smash everyone in the cramped room and try it again...great party game. The guitar controller is a piece of crap, I hate the strum bar, and the start/select buttons are too close to the bar so I kept accidently hitting them with my hand.
I'm a girl, so naturally my voice is higher than the singers, and found I'd only get "Awesome" when I sang in exaggerated low vocals. Also for a kareoke game they chose some weird songs, that Im guessing most people wouldn't know very well...but I did have a blast singing In Bloom and Say It Aint So.
I guess on my day off I'll have to spend the day really figuring out the calibration and getting used to drums. I just feel a little disappointed. When I first got Guitar Hero I sucked, sure, but I at least had a lot of fun learning. This game just frustrated me.

Fun game marred by limited advancement.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: March 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My wife and I have found Rock Band to be fun and exciting, however there are a couple of issues with the game that make it ultimately somewhat annoying.

1. The learning curve is not smooth. You can be jamming along and everything is great, and you will come upon a song rated at the same difficulty that is impossible to complete. GH3 has a much smoother progression of songs which brings you up easily.

2. The Vocals player does not contribute directly to points when they complete phrases.

3. The accuracy of timing on notes required on medium is perhaps too tight.

4. Once you get to 260,000 fans you can't get anymore until you can play at the Hard level. There is a large gap between the medium songs and the Hard songs making a barrier to continued unlocking play.

5. The game is so strict on note accuracy that 10ms of timing difference set in the options can have a significant impact on your performance. This is so wrong, and it bothers me to no end. I like GH3's note accuracy model much better. It provides challenge without being needlessly annoying.

6. I feel that the notes are not well represented in Rock Band. I find myself noticing that the buttons required for play don't seem to really match what notes are playing in the song. GH3 seems to be much closer. In GH3 my hand begins to "know" what to play if I know the song.

I actually started playing GH3 after playing Rock Band. I had become annoyed at the learning curve on RB, so I switched to GH3. Also the GH3 guitar controller seems better made. My RB controller has a broken Wa wa bar brand new. I've scheduled a new replacement, but I have not seen the RMA box yet in the mail after 2 weeks.

All these detractors aside, it is really fun to play the game with my wife. We really enjoy nailing a song with me on Guitar, and she on the vocals.

rockband

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My children have really enjoyed this game,but the quality of the equipment is not as strong as it should be.After only a week the foot pedal BROKE!

Loves the game, not the songs

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My 12 year old says she loves the game and she does play it quite often with her friends. It takes up a lot of room and she says she enjoys playing the game by herself more than with her friends...it takes a while to get the hang of it and shes not patient enough to allow the others to get to her level. She did admit that she doesn't care for the songs, she says she is only familiar with them because of Guitar Hero III, I guess classic rock isn't a 12 year old girls thing, other than that its kept her busy. Oh yeah, be careful if you have the older model PS2 the system may not be able to read this disc, I guess there is a lense that can go out on it, I bought this gift for my daughter's birthday and then she wasn't able to play it for a week. Sony offered to repair/replace the unit for $45 for the exact same type of system, I ended up trading my defective system in, hit with $20 refurbish fee and purchased a newer used PS2 from Game Stop, it ended up being an expensive birthday.

Rock Band Rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The new guitar is a great improvement on the original, and wireless greatly improves the whole experience.
The choice of songs is pretty good, although it would be nice to be able to expand the range of songs available.
It is a shame that it is taking so long for the game to be released in Australia, buying the game from the US via Amazon was expensive for shipping.
Overall though, gamewise, 11 out of 10, excellent.
Jon Pritchard, Raymond Island, Victoria, Australia

Rock Band is Awesome !!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My son loves this game especially the drums... The songs are better on guitar hero but you can have friends play the guitar and someone sing... He is getting ready for a tournament at his school...

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