So, Rock Band, Then!

I haven't posted for a while, I know. I've been playing Rock Band. It is definitely worth that £140, it's probably even worth the RRP £179.99 (I think). Analysis list time, because I can't be bothered with punctuation.

• The Drums
• Awesome
• Work incredibly well
• Well made
  
• Quite loud (clack, clack, clack, clack)
  
• Steep learning curve
• Ultimately satisfying

• The Guitar
• Feels quite cheap
• Works well
• Not as good as GH III guitar
• Added extras are cool

• The Microphone
• Is basically a real microphone
• Feels incredibly cool to hold
• Works very well

• The Songs
• Practically all tastes accounted for (provided you like Rawk!)
• It's got Little Sister by Queens of the Stone Age = enough said
• The DLC stuff is amazing
• Also, My Sharona by The Knack
• More Than a Feeling by Boston
• Detroit Rock City by Kiss
• I mean, I could go on
• Paranoid by Black Sabbath
• Crushcrushcrush by Paramore
• That enough for you?
• This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race by Fall Out Boy
• Needs some System of a Down, but so did GH, GH II and GH III (at least there's some Serj Tankian)
• Learn to Fly by Foo Fighters :D

• The Actual Game
• Yes, it is better than GH III
• Rock Band World Tour is a revelation
• Achievements are nice and fair, unlike GH III
• Can see myself playing this for a long, long, time

Also, I've been playing Rez HD. I missed it the first time around when it came out for the Dreamcast, and I have to say it is now one of my very favourite games ever. And I haven't even used the Trance Vibration yet!

I Needs Me My Rock Band

The USA have been clacking along to the tunes of Rock Band for a good while now, yet we in Europe have yet to be even given a release date. It's lucky Activision are milking the Guitar Hero cash-cow and released Guitar Hero III before Christmas, otherwise we'd have had to go and play real guitars, drums and learn how to sing.

Well, GHIII has been and pretty much gone (well, that's unfair as there are a fair few downloadable songs on offer) and, well, we need something else to click our strum bars to. Residents of the US have been spoilt for choice, as both games have been available to them for ages now. Lucky fuckers.

EA, Harmonix, get this game over here soon. At the very least give us a frickin' release date. Yes, the exclusive songs are awesome (Hysteria by Muse is a more than welcome inclusion), but they're pretty useless if we don't have the game to play them on. At the mo, they be nought more than mere pipe-dreams.

Pipe-dreams!

Please, EA, please. It's either that or we'll have to buy Guitar Hero Aerosmith.

And no-one wants that.