Product Description

RockBand is an all-new platform for music fans and gamers to interact with music. The game challenges players to put together a band and tour for fame and fortune, mastering lead/bass guitar, drums and vocals. With more master recordings than any other music game, Rock Band features some of the world's biggest rock artists and spans every genre of rock ranging from alternative and classic rock to heavy metal and punk.

• Play The Hottest Music - Rock Band includes dozens of all-time classics as performed by the original artists. Rock out to legendary artists from punk, metal, alternative, southern, and classic rock
• Break Out Your Axe - Shred on guitar and bass like never before with the all-new Fender Stratocaster (to be confirmed) replica guitar.
• Bang The Skins - Play like a real drummer on a drum kit with four pads, a kick pedal, and real drum sticks.
• Sing Your Heart Out - Take centre stage on lead vocals and bring down the house on rock's greatest anthems.
• Live The Rock Lifestyle - Completely customise your characters to reflect your own inner rock god.
• Try Out Multiple Game Modes - Play solo or as a band in tour mode. Start small and work your way to the top.
• Take Your Act Online - Go online to play with-or compete against-rockers around the world.
• Grow Your Act - Keep expanding your rock universe with downloadable content.

game only - Requires a drum, microphone or guitar controller to play

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #314 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2008-05-23
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Amazon.co.uk
Tap into your Rock & Roll fantasy as you pick your axe, form a band and tour for fame and fortune, all while sticking the rock credo of learning your instrument as you go in Rock Band.

For those about to rock!

Jam solo if that's your thing. View larger.

Or try multiplayer action. View larger.

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Or go Bonzo on the skins! View larger.

Developed by Harmonix, creators of the blockbuster Guitar Hero franchise, Rock Band is an all-new platform for gamers ready to take on the challenges of the Rock & Roll lifestyle. Instruments available to players are guitar, bass, drums or vocals as they hit the road as either an aspiring superstar solo act, or for the first time in game genre history take on the true collaborative and challenging nature of music as they form a band and jam together in multiplayer action from home or around the world. Either way players will need to master their stage presence through the various game modes and polish their rock chops via the unrivalled Rock Band song list if they hope to make it out of the garage, into the clubs and finally on to the main stage.

Extensive Game Modes.
Rock Band delivers four music games in one – challenging rockers to master lead guitar, bass guitar, drums and vocals through the five separate game modes.

• Tutorial Mode: Master the basics! No need for experience. Pick your weapon of choice and ascend from beginner to rock god.
• Practice Mode: Perfect your tune! Breakdown any part of any song at your preferred speed before hitting the main stage.
• Quickplay Mode: Instant fix of fun! Jump into any unlocked song for some quick jam time either on your own or with other players.
• Solo Tour Mode: Take it on the road! Pack up your instrument of choice and set out on the open road for a fun and challenging single player career.
• Band World Tour Mode: Conquer the world! The journey to rock stardom takes you from small town bars to world-renowned venues. Earn fame and fortune along the way to secure rock star necessities.

A Song List That Goes to Eleven!
Built on unprecedented deals with top record labels and music publishers, the mix of remastered originals and covers that make up the epic Rock Band song list puts players in the shoes of legendary artists from day one. And with the promise of additional downloadable songs and albums you are sure to be rockin’ for some time to come. A partial list of the initial song list includes:

• (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult (Master)
• Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who (Master)
• Suffragette City - David Bowie (Master)
• Paranoid - Black Sabbath (Cover)
• Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones (Master)
• Mississippi Queen - Mountain (Cover)
• Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi (Master)
• Tom Sawyer - Rush (Cover)
• In Bloom - Nirvana (Master)
• Vasoline - Stone Temple Pilots (Master)
• Say It Ain't So - Weezer (Master)
• Main Offender - The Hives (Master)
• Reptilla - The Strokes (Master)
• Go with the Flow - Queens of the Stone Age (Master)
• Learn to Fly - Foo Fighters (Master)
• Enter Sandman - Metallica (Master)
• Highway Star - Deep Purple (Master)
• Epic - Faith No More (Master)
• Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet (Master)
• Here It Goes Again - OK Go! (Master)
• Creep - Radiohead (Master)
• Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones (Master)
• Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash (Master)
• Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins (Master)
• Sabotage - Beastie Boys (Master)
• The Hand That Feeds - Nine Inch Nails (Master)
• I Think I'm Paranoid - Garbage (Master)
• Wave of Mutilation - The Pixies (Master)
• Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Master)
• Celebrity Skin - Hole (Master)
• AND MANY MORE!

Manufacturer's Description

Rock Band is an all-platform for music fans and gamers to experience music like never before. Rock Band offers four music games in one â€" challenging rockers to master the lead/bass guitar, drums, and vocals or to play in a cooperative band experience. The game allows players to play solo or recruit bandmates and jam side-by-side or virtually online, playing music from the greatest rock artists of all time.

Rock Band gamers has got unrivaled access to hundreds of master recordings and legendary rock artists in all rock genres from punk, metal and alternative to classic and Southern rock. Rock Band is also the first-ever videogame to offer full-length albums as a part of its game play.

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Customer Reviews

Worth it
Like many others I was incensed with the price for Rock Band, but still intended to buy it as I am a massive fan of the Guitar Hero games.

I'm glad I took the plunge, because the whole experience is incredible. The track listing is infinitely superior to that of Guitar Hero, and playing with your mates is amazing!

Another great part about this is the amount of money that I've actually SAVED by having some mates over on a friday night and staying in playing this all night with a few beers, rather than going out and spending ridiculous amounts in London. 5 stars

The Customer Is Always Right...
Here's the thing: UK Gamers have somewhat got used to not always being at the top of the list when it comes to Games Developers priorities. That's a given - we get the importance of different territories, of financial value, of scale and size of audience... But there's unique problems with Rock Band that give us more than justifiable reason to gripe.

The incredible delay in actually getting this product into the hands of UK gamers was annoying, to say the least. In this global gaming community we're all part of, our overseas "we've got it, you haven't" friends took great pleasure in rubbing salt in the wounds. The American's even added a side of fries with that, because some habits are too hard to break.

But the stiff upper lip got us through. And then the release date was pushed back. Again. And again.

Then finally along comes a set-in-stone release date. Fantastic! There'll even be bucketloads of tracks to download via Xbox Live. Brilliant! Euro exclusive tracks come bundled with it! Nice! It's double the cost US gamers paid. Alright!

Wait... what?

Simply by setting the price point so high, many gamers are squeezed out of the game before it's even hit the shelves. It's a hideous example of a blatant double standard that would set an uncomfortable and damaging precedent.

Many people on these pages have echoed the words "vote with your wallet." They're right, of course. They've slapped a 1 star rating on a 5 star game, because it's really the only way of slapping a 1 star rating where it deserves to go - on the games distributors themselves.

I really do hope that those in control of the purse-strings do take notice of their audience. Whether the gamers are delivering their point clearly and cooly, or with rants that indicate a blood pressure level so high that their eyes might burst at any minute. Whatever the case, I'm going to have to join them.

For once, this gamer will not play along.

Too little too late.
Having waited for over 6 months for this game to be released, I read today that EA have finally announced the prices. What would cost the americans less than £90 over six months ago will now be costing us £180. I can accept that we get fleeced a little on most games, but over double the price? You've got to be kidding me!

Vote with your wallets, avoid this game.