As some of you may know,Activision and Harmonix were together when they made Guitar Hero 2,but split up to make seperate games.Acivision carried on the Guitar Hero legacy whereas Harmonix created Rock Band.Since then the two games have been stealing eachothers ideas and put into their new games.
This game seems more like a modified edition to its predecessor,but it has so much more features this time.
I will start on the Instruments.
The new guitar was modified to be less "mushy" so the strum bar will work better,but still feels cheap compared to the Guitar Hero one.
The new Drum set is wireless,quieter,and force sensitive (it means it will be more or less accurate depending on how hard you hiit the set) and the new bass pedal is made out of steel so no more breakages.
The microphone remains the same,simply because it is in no need of modifications,but you could use a simple headset just as easily.
The game has a huge selection of songs,and if you already have rock band 1 a simple 400 microsoft points (for the xbox 360,i dont know how it works for the ps3 or wii) is all it takes to import ALL of its songs into the new one.Include the hundreds of songs and albums available to download and you could potentially have well over 300 songs before you even play it.DLC from the first games carries over so you don't have to download it again,which makes it a fantastic deal.
There is definatley something in there for everyone,there may be a few songs each individual person may not care about but there is much more good tracks than bad ones.But to name a few tracks there are the following:
Let there be rock:AC/DC
Battery:Metallica
Painkiller:Judas Priest
Shackler's Revenge:Guns 'n' Roses
Master Exploder:Tenacious D
Almost Easy:Avenged Sevenfold
That's What You Get:Paramore
Down With The Sickness:Disturbed
The games features in several different playing modes which will keep you amused for months on end.
Such as the World Tour,which is almost identical to the first one but made slightly easier and you can play it solo while still making fans and money,but playing with as a band is much more enjoyable.As the tour progresses you start to play more difficult songs until near the end where you will be literally ambushed with high paced metal songs such as Mastodon's Colony Of Birchmen and Get Clean by the Anarchy Club.
Keep in mind Harmonix realised that its first game went a bit too easy on guitarists so this game will serve as the ultimate test,Painkiller as a band experience is simply epic,testing everyones limits.
The challange mode i found the most innovative game mode.It starts you off in the "Local Upstarts Club".After you play that either playing an instrument or as a band you can play challenges made specifically from your own DLC.For example i played the Roadrunner Track Challenge,i had to play songs from Airbourne,Machine Head,Megadeath and others and got heftily rewarded for completing it.The Game rewards you for playing the songs you downloaded!
The Battle of the Bands feature is also an interesting little feature.
Every week Harmonix will create challenges open to anyone who meets its criteria (whether its owning the proper DLC or using the right instruments).
They have a pre-made setlist for you to play and you have to get the best score possible,which is placed on its own leaderboard.
And if you don't like a certain event dont't worry about it,wait and see what next week has in store.
The Tug Of war section was modified to be a little...fairer,so more people will play it.
The character creation is nearly identical to the first one,with a few new clothes,intruments and faces added in.The tattoo creation has such a level of depth its a wonder its so simple to use.What i discovered about the creator recently made me realise how unique the game really is:You can create your own band merch.
http://www.rockband.com/merch
This site will allow you to take the characters you made and make real 6 inch figurines,t-shirts,desktop wall papers,screensavers etc
Look on my page i have my characters pictures taken.
The vocals work well still,but have beed tweaked somewhat.The "talky-wordy" parts are impossible to fail even if you make farmyard animal noises.
And trust me on this:Nothing is funnier that saying "quack-quack-moo-moo-neigh-neigh-woof-woof-meow" when trying to do Devildriver's "Clouds Over California" on expert.Its stunningly easy to get 100% on "Testify" and "Give It Away"
Not much to say about the visuals,they are in fact almost identical to the first game but cleaned up a bit.Still friendly to the eye and the lights are how may i say "smarter"?They are coreographed perfectly,meshing perfectly with the song in stage as if you were actually there and the characters move as if they were in cartoons (like Celebrity Deathmatch,but thats probably because its an MTV game).
And interestingly,if you are either eight years old or forty five years old and severly lack the hand-eye co-ordination to excell the games already demanding standards there is a handy "No Fail Mode" which you can use just for fun.
Overall,this is a music games fans dream.You would be frankly insane to not get it,just for the fantastic deal you get and re-play value which will keep you rockin' for another year.
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