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Rock Band first screens and more details revealed

Posted Jun 09, 2007 at 07:24PM by Nicolo S. Listed in: Interviews, Games, Screenshots, Rock Band Tags: Activision, Downloadable Content, Harmonix
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Rock Band - Image 1  


Ever since the release of Guitar Hero, many have wished for a game that allows players to get their hands on different instruments and play as a band. Harmonix heard these prayers, and came up with Rock Band.

Activision may have taken Guitar Hero away from its makers, but its spiritual successor seems to be a lot bigger. In an interview with IGN, Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos shed some light on the much anticipated title.

Thanks to the smash-hit guitar game, Rigopulos said that Harmonix has got more resources to pour in this time around. That means rockin' out will be more grand, with the use of each instrument deep enough to be considered its own game.

If you can't get your friends into picking something, single player isn't much of a problem. Any instrument can unlock all songs and assets, so just take one and let auto-pilot do the rest.

The difficulty is being tweaked to avoid broken peripherals smashed into pieces due to frustration. Newbies and pros alike would be able to make music and get those scores rolling.

Third-party guitars will be supported so Guitar Hero ones can be used in the game. However, the Rock Band Stratocaster will be an exclusive. Rigopulos couldn't reveal much about other instruments, but rest assured that they'll be affordable since Harmonix is barely making any profit out of these peripherals.

Regarding downloadable content, Rigopulos could only say "the online feature set of Rock Band will be quite substantial—way beyond anything that's been done previously in the music category. Stay tuned for more details!" Could this mean sharing of user-created music?

"The ability to import user-created music into the game isn't a feature that will be integrated into Rock Band right out of the gate, but we are actively considering the possibility of eventually building and releasing tools to the community that will allow players to do this," he said.

While we wait for this title to rock our socks, feast your eyes on these rad screenshots for now. We'll keep you updated whenever new word comes up.

For the full interview, click on the Read link below.

First Rock Band screens - Image 1 First Rock Band screens - Image 2 First Rock Band screens - Image 3 First Rock Band screens - Image 4

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   by +_+ (Unregistered) - 2007-06-09
 » Nobody cares about this sh*t
Give us a god damned official price estimate Harmonix, not hype fuel. I'm not going to get my hopes up over a game only to see price estimates set at $200+, I will not pay that much for any game. $130 for Halo 3 is pushing it, and Halo is my favorite game.

   by .... (Unregistered) - 2007-06-09
 » ....
i dont want screen shots of the game i want to see screen shots of the instruments since thats the big part of the game not the video.

   by JJ (Unregistered) - 2007-06-09
 » Damn
Im sick of companys saying that they will impliment stuff in the future if it is in demand. That ***** never happens. The creators of motorstorm said they would impliment split screen and that is never going to happen.

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   by DUFF (Unregistered) - 2007-06-10
 » what a cop
this game is going to be one of the biggest flops in a while... whos gonna wanna sing, play drums, and guitar at the same time? this needs to be a wii exclusive because for us older folks we have better things to do than to sing some ACDC and embarrass the hell out of ourselves in front of a party. and did they ever think how the hell are they going to even put lyrics, guitar chords and drum techniques onto one screen?!? nice try EA (i believe they are developing this) but you will once again fail at another "ground-breaking" game. MoH will never be CoD, Live will never be 2k7, Madden has yet to impresss me, and you may never make a next-gen baseball game

   by mf193 (Unregistered) - 2007-06-10
 » I disagree with you all
I think you're all too narrow minded. Guitar Hero is massively popular. It limits you to one type of instrument, without online capability except for downloading tracks. This allows people to not only pull more people into the playing experience, but it allows for people from multiple places using different types of instruments. The possibilities for this are endless given Guitar Hero's success.

You're all fools.

   by Lucca (Unregistered) - 2007-06-10
 » ill hope..
it will be a new engine, not like Guitarhero with Buttons... with strings.. yeah, that would be cool :D

   by ? (Unregistered) - 2007-06-10
 » ?
are you stoned?


   Re: Lucca (Unregistered) - 2007-06-10
 » ~_??
no im not...


but i were.. :D


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