Rock Band notes, #2
Rock Band is owning me.
I haven’t even touched another game since I got it a couple weeks ago, and I’m completely okay with that.
So far in the Band World Tour mode, Colette and I have been playing in our band called Pommes Frites; her on guitar, me on drums, both of us decked out in our white and pink outfits. Sort of a White Stripes, but with two other members, pink instead of red, and a quality drummer (or so I consider myself).
With the announcement that Rock Band 2 is coming in September, it looks like we got into this game at just the right time. By the time we unlock all the in-game tracks in Rock Band and start to tire of them, the sequel will hit shelves, throwing another 50-ish tracks at us to tackle. Including the DLC tracks we’ve already picked up (I think about 20), that’ll put us to over 100 tracks to play on 4 different instruments. It’s insane, the potential size of this platform. I already envision them needing better sorting tools to pick a song quickly in Quickplay mode. Right now I’d like to request a feature for version 2: please let us load all of the in-game tracks onto the 360’s hard drive, so we don’t have to keep swapping discs to play each game’s songs. When I pop in the Rock Band 2 disc, I want to also see all of my downloaded tracks plus the original Rock Band ones. Please.
So let’s get to my most recent thoughts. The drums are the best part of the game, hands down. Better than guitar in any of the Guitar Hero games, and better than vocals. Maybe it’s because out of all the plastic instruments you can play, the drums most closely mimic actually playing drums. Or maybe it’s because I’m a rhythm guy, who knows. I definitely have an affinity for songs with lots of drumming in them. I’m to the point now on drums where I can hold my own on Hard mode in most of the simpler songs, but I’m still challenged plenty with Medium on the advanced drum songs. But the difficult ones are so much more satisfying. Any of the songs by Smashing Pumpkins, Rush, Boston, The Who, or The Police are still to painful for me to play on Hard, but a blast on Medium.
Colette’s still ripping up her dual-instrument skills on guitar/mic. I have no idea how she can play that. I tried drumming while singing Sabotage, and I almost failed out on the drums. Maybe she can use one eye to look at the words and one to see the note track. Chameleon style.
Tags: colette, EA, harmonix, rock band
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