Rock Band

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By Mike Say what you want about the glut of music games like Guitar Hero or Rock Band—the genre is white hot and you know it. This is why Activision is striking continuously riding while the wave is at its zenith. One of the top publisher’s latest outings is Band Hero, which is actually a spin-off of [...] B...

By Rich Reed The RockBand craze is still on. With the recent launch of RB: The Beatles and the new network store, there is a constant wave of DLC content. Of course this also means new RockBand gear and guitars. MadCatz sent me their Wireless Fender Telecaster Player’s Edition Replica for the 360 to review....

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By editors@gamesetwatch.com (Simon Carless) But assuming consumers are willing to spend more than $100 on a single video game, could DJ Hero revolutionize rhythm games? The advent of Guitar Hero let entirely new audiences tap into a near-universal fantasy. Whether video game fan or not, how many people have never once rocked out on a...

By kernowgames For a start there is the Vocal mode which works in exactly the same way as Drums, Guitar or Bass. You simply tap coloured notes in time to the music. Its a shame there is no option to y’know actually sing which is possible and has been achieved in all other versions. Secondly the gameplay is very ni...

By admiralneck Other than choosing lasers over booms, the basic tutorial didn’t give a hint as to what the effects dial does, but apparently you use this in the same way you use the Whammy Bar on a Rock Band/Guitar Hero controller, to “customise” the sound on screen. As with Rock Band and Guitar Hero, all thi...

By crossfeedthemix The Tuesday release of the new DJ Hero spin-off of the Rock Band/Guitar Hero games got me thinking about an idea I had with a friend of mine a while back as those games were first originally becoming popular.  It’s called “Guitar Troll.”  The idea is simple: you take the guitar controller from...

By matt cabral Loved Band in Your Hand: Four instruments-guitar, bass, drums, vocals, 20 tracks, world tour, quick play, multiplayer, and even a music store make the jump to Apple's slick portable. Despite the absence of plastic peripherals and avatars , Rock Band on iPhone, well...rocks!

By Bryan Now, I bet you’re thinking, what order am I going to play these in? Well, it goes like this. On www.mygamercard.net (which you should totally join if you have an XBOX Live Gamercard) I have put in less overall effort into getting Achievements in Rock Band 2 and ODST. I need 30GS in RB2 and 120GS in O...

By mjlambert1 I can’t say anything on the new instruments since I’ve been using the RB instruments I’ve owned since buying my PS3.  They work just as well. Harmonix has made it a habit to get a jump on the competition by getting bands once thought untoucha

By Stephen Ortiz The one thing I always wished “Rock Band” was more metal. The series has been superior to Activision’s “Guitar Hero” in every way imaginable (presentation, gameplay, style) except for the track selection. Yes, “Rock Band” has many more songs with updates coming pretty much weekly throug...

By gearsofrock The Guitar Hero microphone and guitars also work like a charm. Check out the full compatibility chart from Rock Band here. I’d also like to add that the  manual instrument calibration on The Beatles: Rock Band is far better than Guitar Hero 5 which you really have to screw around with to get pe...

By Brian Crecente Ms. Cobain is extremely upset about Activision's use of Mr. Cobain's likeness to sing the songs of others in its Guitar Hero game," Keith A. Fink, Love's attorney, told Kotaku. "Activision was granted permission by Kurt's trust solely to use his name and likeness. Activision was not given an u...

By Chris Kohler Save for a few small tweaks, The Beatles: Rock Band takes its gameplay directly from Harmonix’s Rock Band series. Up to four people can play guitar, bass, drums and vocals using special instrument-shaped game controllers and following the colored button cues that flow down the screen. Yo...

By Fruit Brute I have now played TB:RB with quite a few people who have never had an interest in video games or Rock Band up until now. Every single one of them had a fantastic time playing the game, which speaks volumes about the power of the Beatles' music and Harmonix's success in pulling off what at one tim...

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By Brian Crecente Instruments: Another level of realism includes the creation of four new controllers based on the instruments used by The Beatles. The Special Edition bundle of the game comes with a Ludwig drum set, a microphone and microphone stand and Paul McCartney's Hofner bass. While the drum isn't d...

By Jeff Atwood Rock Band Network, as you may recall, is Harmonix’ attempt to make their Rock Band 2 song authoring tools public to get more bands and songs in the game marketplace. This is clearly a good, nay, a great thing. The Rock Band Network is tentatively scheduled for go-live in November. I can’t wait!

By tiny dancer Frugal yet rockin'? RockBand79.com offers a pretty wicked deal: the Rock Band Special Edition Bundle for either Xbox 360 or PS3 (Rock Band, mic, guitar & drum), plus Rock Band 2, plus the AC/DC Track Pack. All for $79, shaving off $110 and adding an entire game and track pack.

By Gregory Gay I am absolutely horrible at music games. Guitar Hero or Rock Band, it doesn’t matter which. I can sometime manage the “hard” mode on the guitar, but I generally just hover around a comfortable medium. Hell, don’t even get me started on vocals - a karaoke king I am not. Of course, I didn’t let [...]

By Jeff Atwood I recently picked up a package deal that included the Mad Catz Rock Band Overdrive Pedal. This is as simple as it looks. It’s a freakin’ metal box with a switch that you plug into your Rock Band guitar (if you haven’t noticed, the port is on the side of every guitar). When you stomp on [...]

By Stephen Totilo My expectations for how the band would take to Rock Band were initially low, especially when the microphone kept disconnecting, preventing an experiment in how Mintz's signature howling vocals might translate to the game. As the Rock Band quartet lost Dvorak's attention in favor of the...

By Jeff Atwood Remember the lackluster GHTunes feature of Guitar Hero: World Tour, where you create your own songs from canned instrument sounds by pressing buttons on the guitar and drum controllers? It’s a plausible idea, but in practice the “songs” produced this way sound like MIDI songs gone horr...

By Wootini Portable music games always seem like an odd duck. Guitar Hero On Tour for the Nintendo DS had to create an attachment so you could press down on the usual buttons while "strumming" on the touch screen. But all the PSP has are some buttons and a thumbstick. So how in the world did Harmonix think th...

By Michael McWhertor MTV Games' Rock Band series shrinks down and drops the plastic instruments for the PlayStation Portable release Rock Band Unplugged, which turns the band video game series into a break out solo effort. If you're at all interested in the Rock Band series or have enjoyed Harmonix's origina...

By Jeff Atwood I previously talked about Harmonix’ upcoming portable iteration of Rock Band, Rock Band Unplugged for the PSP. But Guitar Hero went portable first, with Guitar Hero: On Tour for the Nintendo DS. I am now required by law to show you what may be the cheesiest promo video for a game of all time. It’...

By Mark Wilson The Verdict: I like it more than the standard Rock Band (2) drum pedal, but probably not for the reasons you'd think. The Metal Pedal, for all of its hardcore skeleton styling, doesn't feel sturdier than the latest Rock Band stock pedal. Sure, it's called the Metal Pedal, but 80% or more of it i...

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By Jeff Atwood Addition of the open bass note on bass guitar. Heavy drum notes. Bridged chords on guitar. Here’s hoping they continue to improve the platform with each new release this year — GH: Metallica, Guitar Hero Greatest Hits, GH: Van Halen, and of course the inevitable Guitar Hero: World Tour 2.

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By rss@youtube.com (someguy913) Gold-star of The Conjuring by Megadeth. To answer one of the most common questions (What pedal should I use without paying hundreds for a kick trigger?), for the money, I recommend the "Destroyer Pedal", which gives zero double-hits, it's metal, and it's great for using heel-toe with. (Be...

By Jeff Atwood In Quieting your Rock Band Drums, I described a few ways you could reduce the terrible clickety-clack noise of the old Rock Band 1 drumset. Fortunately, with the Rock Band 2 wireless drum kit, noise is much less of a problem, as the drums come with a thin rubber layer on top this time around.

By Mike Fahey M.I.C. actually stands for Microphone with Integrated Controller, and that's exactly what the Rock Band M.I.C. is. You've got your standard wired premium microphone, with the Xbox controller's A, B, X, Y, start, back, and home buttons placed in a line down one side of the grip. It's a design so sim...

By Jonathan Cresswell After a ridiculous wait, band simulator Rock Band was finally released at a ridiculous price earlier this year – but really, the most ridiculous thing was just how fun this music title was. Taking the note-hitting concept popularised through Guitar Hero, combining it with drums and voca...

By rss@youtube.com (PedalMasters) Check out a video of a MASTER at work. The song is Coheed Cambria "Welcome Home" We told him to take the pedal through it's paces and don't be afraid to hit it hard. Listen to what he had to say following the abuse he put on our pedal. This was a demo setup at an FYE store for the Rock Band 2 promotional r...

By Luke Anderson So what did Harmonix do that set it apart from Activision’s Guitar Hero expansion? First, they started off by only putting in AC/DC tracks, so you don’t have to weed through other bands that you could care less about. Second, they made all of the tracks freely exportable to Rock Band, thus “e...

By BOMB Matt Gameplay We'll start with the Guitar Hero microphone. Or is it the Rock Band microphone? The Logitech microphone? They are all the same thing. Really... they are all made by Logitech, have the same specs, and the same form factor. No difference between them at all. The drums... Rock Band 2 - Buy It

By Ross Miller Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm This week marked the debut of a second contender in the full-band-simulator genre. It's hard to find a review for Guitar Hero: World Tour that utters Rock Band less than a half dozen times. Compar...

By Chris Kohler Wii Musicis kind of like the anti- Rock Band. Rating: See Also: Wii Music's Licensed Songs Hands On: Wii Music's Challenge-Free Rhythm Gaming Behind the Mario Maestro's Music Review: Song Remains (Mostly) the Same in Rock Band 2 Facing Competition, Guitar Hero IIICranks Gameplay to 11

By Jake Harmonix has really delivered on their promise on having the Rock Band game as a music platform. They tried to support as many controllers as possible and to have the game be as customizable and expandable as possible. All the previous Rock Band controllers will work with the new game on the s...

By Brian Crecente Rock Band 2, developed by Harmonix and published by Electronic Arts was released on Sept. 14 for the Xbox 360. Retails for $60 for just the game, $190 for the special edition with instruments. Focused on tour mode both solo and with others, tested Xbox Live online play.

By Chris Kohler You can play Rock Band 2 with Rock Band or Guitar Hero instrument controllers, but a new guitar and drums have been released specifically for this game. Both new input devices are wireless, which is especially welcome with the drum controller, which also sports a metal-reinforced kick pe...

By Dan Landis In an effort to promote the just-released Rock Band 2 (and the Rock Band experience in general), EA/Harmonix/MTV decided to take the show on the road. Up on the stage at the York Fair in York, Pennsylvania, I got my first taste of Rock Band 2 this past weekend, and it was sweet.

By Jason Chen Just like the guitar, the minor changes found in the drums aren't worth upgrading for if you already own a set. Instead, you can think of these as a bonus for people who were patient enough to wait for Rock Band 2 before joining the rhythm music craze. [Amazon Drums and Amazon Guitar]

By Jim Reilly There are new and improved guitars this time around. All the instruments are sturdier and all wireless, including the drums. The guitar is pretty much the same, with the exception of a new wood grain look and a sensor to test playback lag. The drum foot pedal stays attached to the drums and feat...

By Jen According to the mathmatically talented folks over at Scorehero.com and their calculations, the song “Seven” by Vagiant in Rock Band is technically impossible to drum your way to a Gold Star score.  “Seven” as well as several other songs in the game have been identified as either...

We all love the guitar, drum and microphone peripherals that came with Rock Band, but the slew of secondary instruments that the makers of the game have released have been a lot less satisfying. Okay, the Rock Band Key-Tar was pretty cool, but did we really need a Rock Band stand-up bass?

By Jen For those of you who have already had the problem of your Rock Band drum pedal snapping in half right in the middle of your best shot at Gold Starring “Run to the Hills”, you know how frustrating it is that the pedal is made of plastic and somewhat poorly designed.  We recently had the [...] For those of you who have already had the problem of your Rock Band drum pedal snapping in half right in the middle of your best shot at Gold Starring “Run to the Hills”, you know how frustrating it is that the pedal is made of plastic and somewhat poorly designed.  We recently had the pleasure of testing an aftermarket product called Mega Pedal and our experience was a good one (mostly anyway).      [read the full post]

By iruhl Speaking of good band communication, massive multipliers are earned by engaging in Overdrive mode simultaneously with other bandmates. Because both lead and bass guitar can trigger this mode whenever they want (provided they have enough Energy), either the drummer (at the end of a dru...

By Mike Fahey While members of my family are great at bullshitting, we're also pretty good with rhythm and music. My mother and her mother before her ran dancing schools for most of their lives, with most of the girls in the family performing at some point. My brother Richard and I both dabble with musical i...

By Ryan Stewart I think for a lot of Rock Band we mainly went back to ground zero, to start over again and rethink the way we put together a game like this. To really look at all the design choices we’d made and make them better. Change it up a little bit. Try to get back to the roots.