Having recently gained an assload of free time and the ability to play drums again, I've rediscovered my burning passion for hitting buttons/drumpads to colored patterns as they cruise by on screen. Does anyone here share this fascination? Though Activision is doing its best to pump up the rhythm/music bubble until it totally bursts, there's still plenty of amazing stuff going on on the EA/Harmonix side:
1) The Beatles: Rock Band just came out! It's proving to be a glamorous track-pack at a nice discount, with spectacular production values and nice visuals to boot. The game feels a bit easier than typical Rock Band, too, making it excellent if you want to get used to a new difficulty level.
2) Lego Rock Band is coming out this November! It's a collection of songs that lack the gritty, hard-edged profanity typically expected from an awesome rhythm game, all exportable to vanilla Rock Band/RB2. The list of confirmed songs (partway down
this page) is actually fairly nice, even if some songs don't seem like they match up with the guitar/bass/drums format (The Final Countdown, for example).
3) The DLC train is still chugging along with maximum ferocity! Recent notable additions are Blind Melon's "No Rain", Jackson 5's "ABC", a Gorillaz 3-pack, every recognizable song from This Is Spinal Tap, and a totally amazing Weezer pack. The total amount of songs in the Rock Band library is expected to reach a freakin'
thousand by the end of the year, and that is no number for any self-respecting real-world music-game fan to turn up one's nose at.
So, I reiterate: Anyone interested? What do you think? I want to hear about
you.