I purchased Rock Band on Saturday for my Xbox 360 and it is by far my favorite game so far. I never would have thought that this game would be so much fun.
I did not expect to have an immediate appeal to the game. I was skeptical how much fun the game would be as I was a professional weekend warrior musician for 15 years in my past life. I played keyboard and during all those years I had a secret rock and roll fantasy to play guitar, bass and drums.
I started playing the game and my kids immediately jumped in and we played multi-player. They loved it right away, of course! Anne then tried it, and after a few times she was really getting the hang of it. Anne and I started and Band and we are starting a tour. I'm playing drums and she is playing guitar. Finally, a game we can play together after the kids go to bed.
The game slowly introduces you on the easy level and then starts to hook you as you "feel" the music and feel as if you are interacting with your band mates. I can say that the experience is as close to the feeling of performing in a real band without needing musical skills. Well, not exactly true that you don't need musical skills. You need to have a sense of rhythm. This is especially true for drums.
I explored some of the Expert level drum tracks and they exactly match the original drum tracks of the songs. So, if you can play them in "Rock Band", you most likely could play them on real drums. Drums are definitely the most challenging.
I finished the Medium level of guitar only. I've listed all the songs with my favorites on guitar highlighted in red.
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- Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter"
- Aerosmith "Train Kept a Rollin'"*
- The Who "Won't Get Fooled Again"
- Boston "Foreplay/Long Time"
- Mountain "Mississippi Queen"*
- The Police "Next to You"
- David Bowie "Suffragette City"
- Black Sabbath "Paranoid"*
- Blue Oyster Cult "Don't Fear the Reaper"
- The Ramones "Blitzkrieg Bop"
- Deep Purple "Highway Star"
- KISS "Detroit Rock City"
- Molly Hatchet "Flirtin' With Disaster"
- The Outlaws "Green Grass & High Tides"*
- Sweet "Ballroom Blitz"*
- Rush "Tom Sawyer"*
- Bon Jovi "Wanted Dead or Alive"
- The Clash "Should I Stay or Should I Go"
- Faith No More "Epic"
- Pixies "Wave of Mutilation"
- R.E.M. "Orange Crush"
- Iron Maiden "Run to the Hills"*
- Foo Fighters "Learn to Fly"
- Metallica "Enter Sandman"
- Nirvana "In Bloom"
- Stone Temple Pilots "Vasoline"
- Weezer "Say It Ain't So"
- Smashing Pumpkins "Cherub Rock"
- Radiohead "Creep"
- Beastie Boys "Sabotage"
- Hole "Celebrity Skin"
- Garbage "I Think I'm Paranoid"
- Soundgarden "Black Hole Sun"
- The Hives "Main Offender"
- Queens of the Stone Age "Go With the Flow"
- The Strokes "Reptilia"
- Jet "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
- OK Go "Here It Goes Again"
- Nine Inch Nails "The Hand That Feeds"
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Maps"
- Red Hot Chili Peppers "Dani California"
- Coheed & Cambria "Welcome Home"
- Fallout Boy "Dead on Arrival"
- The Killers "When You Were Young"
- New Pornographers "Electric Version"
- 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 "Brainpower"
- Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives "I Get By"
- The Acro-Bats "Day Late, Dollar Short"
- 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"
- Metallica "Ride the Lightning"
- Metallica "Blackened"
- Metallica "And Justice for All"
- Police "Can't Stand Losing You"
- Police "Synchronicity II"
- Police "Roxanne"
- Queens of the Stone Age "3's and 7's"
- Queens of the Stone Age "Little Sister"
- Queens of the Stone Age "Sick Sick Sick"
- Creedence Clearwater "Fortunate Son"*
- Foreigner "Juke Box Hero"*
- T-Rex "Band a Gong (Get It On)"*
- The Knack "My Sharona"*
- The Runaways "Cherry Bomb"*
- Wolfmother "Joker & The Thief"
- David Bowie "Moonage Daydream"
- David Bowie "Heroes"*
- David Bowie "Queen Bitch"*
- Black Sabbath "N.I.B."*
- Black Sabbath "Sweet Leaf"*
- Black Sabbath "War Pigs"*
- Ramones "Rockaway Beach"
- The Clash "I Fought the Law"
- Buzzcocks "Ever Fallen in Love"*
- Radiohead "My Iron Lung"
- Weezer "Buddy Holly"
- The Pretenders "Brass in Pocket"*
- 30 Seconds to Mars "Attack"
- 30 Seconds to Mars "The Kill"
- All-American Rejects "Dirty Little Secret"
- All-American Rejects "Move Along"
- The Sounds "Song with a Mission"
- Lynyrd Skynyrd "Gimme Three Steps"
- Black Crowes "Hard to Handle"*
- Rush "Limelight"*
- The Hives "Die Right Now"
- Iron Maiden "Number of the Beast"*
- Stone Temple Pilots "Interstate Love Song"
- Sweet "Action"*
- The Monkees "Last Train to Clarksville"*
- Blink 182 "All the Small Things"
- Oasis "Don't Look Back in Anger"
- Oasis "Live Forever"
- Oasis "Wonderwall"
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I highly recommend this game if you love rock music! You may not like all the songs but the game keeps you coming back. This is a game that you would never sell back. It's just too much fun.
