November 4, 2009
The Beatles Rock Band: The Ultimate Party Game
First let me say that I don’t normally enjoy playing video games very much. I just really think they’re a waste of my precious time. But I am very much into music and because of that I decided to get a video game system (I bought a Microsoft Xbox 360) so that I could play Rock Band. I found that I really enjoyed the drumming and singing aspects of the game due to their realism. When you are drumming on Rock Band you are hitting real beats that are in the song and when you are singing you really have to sing in tune and on time to get more points. I think this is actually good practice.
But there was a big down side to Rock Band. The songs included with the game. I’m pretty picky about music and to me about 90% of the songs on the Rock Band games I’ve got are just not very good. Or atleast not songs I want to spend time singing!
The biggest defect of Rock Band is completely fixed by the newest version of the game due out on 9/9/9: Beatles Rock Band. The Beatles are not only the most influential and most popular group of all time, they are also my favorite band so to say that I am excited about this new game is an understatement. I think it will be awesome to get to play drums as if I was Ringo and to sing like I am John, Paul, & George. It’ll be a great time.
But there is more to The Beatles Rock Band than the fact that it comes with 45 Beatles songs (and you can download entire albums in the future.) There’s also some new features that are unique to the game, most notably the harmony singing feature which allows up to three people to sing at once. This means up to six people can play the game at one time in all. This makes it a really good game for a party.
For enormous Beatles fans like me, September 9th is not just only Rock Band - it’s also about The Beatles Mono CD Box Set which puts The Beatles UK albums in their original mono mixes on CD for the first time
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