Rockband Preview Number 2

I know Steve already did a preview for Rock Band, but it's my website and I can't allow to Steve to be only one with all the rock god glory, so I'm going to put in my 2 cents:

Come one, come all, welcome to show, gather round, and feast your eyes on the greatest rock spectacle you will ever see, at your local Best Buy?? That's right you can get your Rock Band on, while a bunch of random electronic shoppers look at you and laugh. You don't care though do you? You know you’re having the time of your life rocking your F'in brains out.

So I'll break it down for you all one song at a time. First I played Paranoid, as made famous by Black Sabbath, on drums. I must say it was AWESOME! I loved every second of it. Next I went on to play Nirvana’s In Bloom on drums again, and yet again it was awesome. One thing I should mention about the drums though, at Best Buy they do not have to bass pedal on them, so it seems a lot easier than it is really going to be when you have to use it. It’s basically like adding that fifth fret when you step it up to hard with a guitar.

After that, I passed the drums off to the next comer, and stepped up to guitar for some Dani California, and I'm going to go out and say it here, the guitar is not as good as Guitar Hero’s. The problem I have with the Guitar is that the flipper doesn’t click when you strum, so to me, it doesn’t actually feel like you are strumming. I found myself being unsure rather or not I was strumming, but I think is something I will get used to. Other than that the Guitar is good, I like the feel of the buttons, and the solo parts are fun, although, in the demo at Best Buy they were very sparse.

Lastly, before it was time for me to get out of Best Buy, because people were starting to think we worked there, I decided to try singing, so I did Epic, by Faith No More, and the singing is decent. The last thing I would like to say about vocals is that it is hard, me and my friend, who both can sing fairly well had a hard time with it. Overall, I think singing is the worst aspect of the game.

The last thing I would to mention is they changed the way the notes look on screen look different, they are more like little rectangles, rather than circles.

Overall, I know I said a lot of negative things, but I am not negative towards Rock Band, in fact, playing it made me look forward to it even more. I am counting down the days and hours as I write this. I just feel that with all the hype surrounding Rock Band, I wanted to point out some of the bad things about the game. I have my pre-order in at my local Game Stop, and on the 20th my crew and I will be rocking out like its 1999, or something like that! Now let me leave you with a nice little game play video of the game.



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