Official Rock Band Thread (It's out, bitches)

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Info from Game Informer

Info from IGN (7/4)

Ramones-Rockaway Beach (7/6)

E3 News

8/6 Info

8/22 Update-Bunch of New Songs

8/22- Rockaway Beach Replaced

8/22- STP Song (PSM scan)

9/5 IGN Update

9/11 Update

9/26 Update

9/28 update

10/10 update

10/15 Update Pt 1
10/15 Update Pt 2

10/18 Update

10/24 Update

10/26 Update
10/26 Update pt 2
10/26 Update pt 3

11/1 Update

11/5 Update

11/8 Update

11/15 update

General info:
- PS3 and Xbox 360: November 20, $169.99

- PS2: December 10, $159.99

- 4 separate instruments. Guitar, Drum, Bass and Vocal.

- Will feature full support for four player online play on both 360 and PS3. Any combination of on/offline play will work and each player can pick their own difficulty setting.

- Flexible community system will allow you to find bandmates anywhere in the world

- There will be a way for you to share your band's triumphs with the world, but the details are still under wraps.

- Musical fret-boards are now transparent so you can see more of the background visuals. Guitar is on the left side of the screen, Bass on the right and drums down the middle. Vocals scroll from right to left along the top of the screen.

- If one person fails, the whole band does not fail, their section simply turns gray and they have to sit out the rest of the song unless one your band mates initiates star power, which will bring you back into the fold.

- If all bandmates can reach the end of a song, you'll be greeted with one huge free-form jam session.

- Four themed clothing stores in addition to licensed guitars and pedals and other rock paraphernalia.

- A full set of mo-cap stage movements have been added for each instrument. You can decide whether your vocalist moves like Axel Rose, or stands his ground like Clapton.

- 40 performance venues planned

- You'll be able to craft your own band logo

- 58 songs total on initial release

- There are future possibilities of a mic stand, keytar peripheral, and online Battle of the Bands option

- The PS2 version of the game will feature "many" of the modes of the 360 and PS3 games, and will also incorporate some all-new gameplay elements.
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Avatar Creation
-Choose gender, face type, hair, body shape, tattoos, signature moves, and specialized instrument.

-Avatar can do some special crowd pleasing stuff, like calling out the crowd for vocalists during freestyle opportunities or perform your own drum or guitar solos(!). These can also revive band mates who's dropped out.
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Modes
-Practice - what you've seen in GHII
-Tutorial
-Solo Career mode - playing the career with just one of the instruments
-Band World Tour - multiplayer career mode (for either offline or online)
-Quickplay mode - Just play for the fun of it.
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Controller Info

- All peripherals will be unique to each platform. This isn't the developer's decision. Apparently MS peripherals require special circuit boards.

- It's possible to play guitar and vocals at the same time
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Guitars/Bass
- Guitars and Bass now have 10 frets. 5 for the regular sections of the game and 5 for the newly designated solo sections.

- Whammy bar is back as is the tilt to activate rock band's version of star power

- Guitars are an exact 3/4 replica of a Fender Strat.

- Xplorer guitars will work for 360 owners, but you may not be able to pass on all the new stuff this model has.

- By shopping at the in game store you'll be able to purchase several virtual effects pedals such as Flange, Wah, Chorus and Echo. These can be applied during your song by setting the 5 way switch to the desired effect.

- The Strat controller is a bit larger than the GH controller. Also feels and looks more realistic.

- Faint patterns on will be on guitar buttons to ease finger placement after playing solos

- 5-way toggle switch on guitar will only effect sound, not the way the game plays
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Mic/Singing
- There is a phoneme detector that will pick up individual vowels and consonants you say. Build up enough highly judged phrases and you'll be able to sing free-form. If you do well enough in free-form, then you'll trigger the vocalist's version of star power.

- Microphone doubles as a tambourine on many songs to combat super long guitar solos where the singer doesn't have much to do.

- There will eventually be a Rock Band branded Mic

- Other USB mics will be supported, but Harmonix will probably NOT allow the use of the 360 headset due to its low fidelity.

- The vocals interface resembles Karaoke Revolution. Original/cover voice is still there, just lower in volume so you can hear yourself singing.

- Ability to adjust volume between master track vocalist and microphone singer

- Microphone can be used to play cowbell as well as tambourine
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Drums
- You use actual sticks and hit one of four colored pads in front of you, in addition to a kick pedal attached to the drumming unit. Drummers will also have the ability to do fills etc. in their own little free-form section, do well and you'll trigger the drummers version of star power.

-The picture of the drum peripheral in Game Informer is not final.

-Leftmost pad (red) is your snare drum, everything else doubles as toms and cymbals depending on the song.

- A set of real wooden drum sticks will ship with the unit.

- A piece of the stand can be taken off so that the unit can sit lower, or on a coffee table.

-If you play drums in this game on hard or expert, then you're really playing the drums. Apparently you could sit down at a real set and play the same songs.
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Venues
- Amsterdam
- Berlin
- Boston (three confirmed venues: Charles Pub, in Somerville, The Establishment in Cambridge, and Hancock Theatre)
- Chicago
- London
- Los Angeles
- Moscow
- New York
- Paris
- Reykjavik
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rome
- Seattle
- San Francisco
- Stockholm
- Sydney
- Tokyo
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Songs
Bold=Master

Shipping with Game
Aerosmith - Train Kept a Rollin'
Beastie Boys-Sabotage
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
Bon Jovi-Wanted Dead or Alive
Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home
David Bowie - Suffragette City
Deep Purple - Highway Star
Faith No More - Epic
Fallout Boy - Dead on Arrival
Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly
Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills
Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Kiss-Detroit Rock City
Metallica - Eneter Sandman
Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
New Pornographers - Electric Version
Nine Inch Nails-The Hand That Feeds
Nirvana - In Bloom
OK Go - Here It Goes Again
Queens of the Stone Age - Go With the Flow
R.E.M. - Orange Crush
Radiohead - Creep
Ramones - Blitzkreig Bop
Red Hot Chili Peppers-Dani California
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
Rush-Tom Sawyer
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
Soundgarden-Black Hole Sun
Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline
Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go
The Hives - Main Offender
The Killers - When You Were Young
The Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides
The Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
The Police - Next to You
The Strokes-Reptilia
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
Weezer - Say It Ain't So
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps

Bonus:
The Acro-Brats - Day Late, Dollar Short
Anarchy Club - Blood Doll
Bang Camaro - Pleasure (Pleasure)
Crooked X - Nightmare
Death of the Cool - Can't Let Go
Flyleaf - I'm So Sick
Freezepop - Brain Power
Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives - I Get By
The Konks - 29 Fingers
The Mother Hips - Time We Had
Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld - Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld
Tribe - Outside
Vagiant - Seven
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DLC
3-song packs: $5.49 (440 MS Points)
Individual Songs: $1.99, $0.99 to $2.99 later

The Who -Who's Next:
  • Baba O' Riley
  • Bargain
  • Love Ain't for Keepin'
  • My Wife
  • The Song Is Over
  • Getting in Tune
  • Going Mobile
  • Behind Blue Eyes
  • Won't Get Fooled Again
Nirvana-Nevermind
  • Smells Like Teen Spirit
  • In Bloom
  • Come as You Are
  • Breed
  • Lithium
  • Polly
  • Territorial Pissings
  • Drain You
  • Lounge Act
  • Stay Away
  • On a Plain
  • Something in the Way
The Grateful Dead


Week of November 20, 2007
Metallica Pack
Metallica - And Justice for All
Metallica - Blackened
Metallica - Ride the Lightning

The Police Pack
The Police - Can't Stand Losing You
The Police - Roxanne
The Police - Synchronicty II

Queens of the Stone Age Pack
Queens of the Stone Age - 3s and 7s
Queens of the Stone Age - Little Sister
Queens of the Stone Age - Sick Sick Sick

Individual Tracks
Creedence Clearwater Revivial - Fortunate Son
Foreigner - Juke Box Hero
T-Rex - Bang a Gong
The Knack - My Sharona
The Runaways - Cherry Bomb
Wolfmother - Joker and the Thief

Week of November 27, 2007
David Bowie Pack
David Bowie - Heroes
David Bowie - Moonage Dreak
David Bowie - Queen Bitch

Week of December 4, 2007
Black Sabbath Pack
Black Sabbath - N.I.B.
Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf
Black Sabbath - War Pigs

Week of December 11, 2007
Punk Pack
The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love
The Clash - I Fought the Law
The Ramones - Rockaway Beach

Week of December 18, 2007
Individual Tracks
Radiohead - My Iron Lung
The Pretenders - Brass in my Pocket
Weezer - Buddy Holly
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[quote name='seanr1221']I still say this seems a little too ambitious, but it will be interesting to see how it all turns out.[/quote]
I agree, this is sounding pretty cool on paper. But I am a little worried about how much they can really deliver...
 
[quote name='seanr1221']I still say this seems a little too ambitious, but it will be interesting to see how it all turns out.[/QUOTE]
I'm thinking that too, but this is the actual GH team. GH3 will still be great, but this is the taking it to a whole new level. Harmonix has yet to disappoint.

I can't wait for this game. I must pick up a 360 sooner than I thought. I want to jump into the drums since I think I'm good enough in the guitar area from way back when in Guitar Freaks and have never played Drummania. I get a feeling online at first might be filled with drummer wanted signs!
 
So it'll be, what, $400 to get a complete set up? God I suck so much at musical games, but I always buy them.
 
holy fuck. drum set up sounds good-- they better have Frankenstein in there :)
 
[quote name='the_deej']anyone know what songs there are?[/QUOTE]

Weezer - Say It Ain't So - Original Master Track
Black Sabbath - Paranoid - Original Master Track
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again - Original Master Track
Nirvana - In Bloom - Original Master Track

it's in the op.

someone said welcome to the jungle and sweet home alabama are in the game, not confirmed though.

can't wait for this (and gh3)
 
I swear to god, the 360 better get a fucking price drop. I really want this game, and now.

Oh, and I'm really glad I sold my Wii now. I'd honestly rather this game + controllers than a Wii.
 
As much as people love the GH series, I can't see anyone willing to pay that much money for the full set. I'm guessing everybody will buy or already have a guitar so there won't be band co-op.

If the guitar controller is $40, then I can see that drum controller going for at least $80.
 
Well, if you plan on buying GH3, you'll already have the guitar, so you don't need to buy a new one, unless of courseyou REALLY want the extra sound-thingy.

Personally, I probably won't buy a 360 this Christmas unless they drop the price to $300, so I won't have to worry about that for a while.

EDIT: I went ahead and changed this to the Official Rock Band thread. All news and info relating to the game goes here.
 
I also remember reading that you can use the Xbox 360 headset as your microphone, sure it might not be as nifty but it would get the job done.
 
I was a little wary of how everything was going to work, but I'm liking what I'm hearing so far. The separate career modes is good to hear and I'm liking how the drum peripheral is looking. The addition of the extra buttons that use hammer ons and pull offs on the new guitar controller also seem like a good idea. Hopefully Harmonix delivers on what they're promising and the pricing isn't too high.
 
my brother works at Harmonix. He keeps asking me to visit and try a build of the game. After reading that I guess I'll take him up on it...
 
here's a pic of the drums/mic

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looks relatively pathetic compared to Drummania though.

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but then again the it does look better than the drummania for ps2 kit, but drummania always allowed you to connect a yamaha DTX set to make it just as good as the arcade.
 
Cool, Thanks for posting that Zolog. That guitar looks insanely cool.

Can't wait to try this game out, Hopefully it won't cost more than a 360 itself, lol.
 
Like I was telling Matte and JFonzy, I just can't justify spending much money on a toy drum set. I've already got a real 5-piece, so what's the point?
 
The Strat looks really freaking awesome. It'll look nice next to my real one (same colors too!). And according to Destructoid, the total for a mic/game/guitar/drum bundle will be $200. I'm getting three friends to pitch in so I'm sold so far!
 
The hardest thing is deciding if I'm going to invest in the $90 towards Guitar Hero III or Rock Band. I don't think I could afford both games if we are forced to buy two separate guitars. Harmonix would be geniuses (and royally piss off RedOctane) if they made their guitar compatible with Guitar Hero III (since they are making it compatible with the GHII guitar). That way we could just buy the game only and keep the better guitar.
 
Harmonix has already said they are supporting the Guitar Hero controller and would like their guitar to be supported in return. It'd benefit both companies if they play it nice and let us buy one guitar, and then we can pick up both games instead of having to commit to one or the other.
 
they don't really have much to lose by mutually supporting
guitars anyway. I believe Harmonix has already said that peripherals are just an expensive element that doesn't make much money at all for the company.
 
If I had to pick between the 360 Xplorer or the 3/4 Strat... I think the decision is obvious. Also considering the whole package will cost only slightly more than the current two guitars and game deal for GHII on the 360, I think it's also obvious which one is going to get preordered by me.
 
[quote name='Kendro']Jesus fucking Christ. That is SICK.[/quote]

Agreed. It doesn't seem possible to have more fun doing anything else. Holy shit.
 
I wish I was a fly on the wall at the inevitible meeting between Activision, RedOctane, and Neversoft. They are probably at DEFCON 1. :D
 
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