With the violent controversy around its price, you almost forget that Rock Band is essentially a new creation of the talented developers Harmonix, authors of the first opus of the series Guitar Hero. Faced with a Guitar Hero 3 effective but which is missing, ultimately, the additional soul that halo its predecessors, back to business ambassadors of plastic riff inevitably raised hopes among a community of players.
As party games go, this one tops the charts
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Rock Band is the evolution which was to move the game naturally musical? From next door Konami, you will respond that this is a long time that the Japanese arcade fun in the Guitar Freaks, and even DrumMania Keyboard Mania, the three terminals can be interconnected and give rise to wild concerts. But in Western homes, the intrusion of this impressive set of instruments has something unusual. So far not very fond of rhythm games and, more generally, securities with accessories atypical imposing the Western public seems finally become familiar with the eccentricity of its kind, we still believed there little reserved only Japanese. But nonetheless, propose title with a microphone, a guitar and, especially, a battery is crossing an additional remedy. But it is also the rock: the hubris!
$110 price is a lot of money
And in the genre, we can say that Harmonix saw things big. Turn on the microphone, anecdotal, to focus on the two instruments were lovers fantasize gender for months: the guitar and drums. The first adopt a style decidedly more adult than the Gibson Guitar Hero. Reproduction of a Fender Stratocaster, the guitar is more impressive than the competitor and opts for black and white tones, while reserving intelligently freight color at the discretion of the guitarist. Asked ownership, subject to destabilize the coup accustomed Guitar Hero. Silent (no more clicking repeatedly), the pick is also wider and longer course which, initially, may pose some problems of responsiveness. But after a few pieces, the instrument takes easily succession of Gibson and Red Octane is just as the new benchmark of the genre. Note, however, an apparent fragility to confirm or deny a practice over the long term. Finally, note that the Xbox 360 version has the particularity of being wired, unlike its counterpart PlayStation 3 and a hub is provided to enable the player to connect all the instruments. As for the battery, it has only competition than DrumMania. The duel was won easily by Harmonix accessory, both in terms of design and quality. Boxes and cymbals are synthesized into four colored pads and a pedal. Height adjustable, this battery is very pleasant to practice and eventually suffers only one notable absence: the noise caused to each note played that can quickly irritate your friends.
Included hardware is a lot of fun to play with
In short, a set of instruments has its mouth, now to test the effectiveness being inserted cake game, you need to go through the traditional sequence of introduction, fortunately very successful before ' reach the main menu. Speaking personally, this aesthetic more refined and stylized than that of a Guitar Hero marble left me when I discovered the American version. Having spent the title longer, I must note that the overall dressing of the game shows a real visual identity, menus to the characters through image processing and excellent design rooms together. Much less colorful as Guitar Hero 3, Rock Band is placed on a radically opposite to the Neversoft title: Caricature to delusions of the latter, the game Harmonix prefers sobriety classy and modern, tinged with a hint of a dark little trash. In short, an undeniable success which will be time when addressing the creation of character. But for the first time towards our concert hall, starting point of a long tour of sixty-seven titles extended thirteen bonus tracks, a tracklist eighty songs available at launch of the game is already enough before succumbing to the siren consumer downloading content! For, in addition to show a diversity that will satisfy both the novice it will balk the most obtuse, this tracklist has the good taste to offer a compilation of titles emblematic of each era. Except for the poor "Manu Chao" of Wampas (the group had many other productions in reserve) and Steel Pleymo for minette of (the first that says Bill takes a slap), the title has not real weakness . Better still, it is surprising to appreciate certain songs or artists with whom affinity did not yet established as a single listener. Bon Jovi Take for example, your servant would never have imagined moving hair on a composition of the seducer in petty. It is quite another two sticks in hands or clinging to his Fender. This sudden charm, such pieces are in the musical intelligence displayed by the teams of Harmonix. The charts (scores) and just retranscrivent musicality of each piece and offers the player the satisfaction of reckless really play, where many titles of Guitar Hero 3 imposed simply validate pace notes. Here is the talent of developers whose real knowledge of proposed cuts force the obvious.
Band world tour mode is severely addictive
If I had the portfolio Maxime Chao!
This work on goldsmiths made the pieces is largely guarantor of fun fun game, Rock Band has to spare. Only the player wanting to progress in score can expect to sweat long hours in front of the screen. Guitar, microphone and battery, the challenge is always very balanced and terrorists of Guitar Hero may therefore launch an assault on new highs. Petit interlude also about the battery who performs the feat of offering the most experienced guitarists this exhilarating feeling of discovery that has seized the Guitar Hero first name. The early hours of Thursday are hesitant, even chaotic at times, and we quickly discovered that good coordination hands / feet is not innate. We must therefore learn in pain, frustration and even harassment of losing regular rhythm, but also the intense pleasure that unfolds as progress becomes evident, as validating a bit mechanical series of notes succeeds the Thursday, ownership of the instrument and song. A pure happiness. And it is still very little compared to the immense pleasure that comes multiplayer sessions where the enthusiasm of each nourishes the collective euphoria, which is moved when a song played and played well. Furthermore, to enhance group cohesion but also deepen what they put up with Guitar Hero developers Harmonix have distilled some nice finds gameplay.
This game will probably make you a better drummer.
Star Power in Guitar Hero meets the Overdrive (French Transe, but Overdrive is still more class) Rock Band. So far nothing new, except that each instrument has its own Overdrive. Thus, for action, the drummer of the group will produce a short freestyle imposed by the song and especially validate note that concludes the latter. The singer has also free of these phases to trigger its Overdrive Braille words of his own or by typing the microphone. Finally, nothing new guitar side is always to lift the handle so délurée rock star. Key solo, the Overdrive also has an additional interest in multiplayer it can save a player out of the end game after a failure. And mine anything, this cooperative spices a little more game to many. Among the new features, also note the emergence of solo guitar, already present in Guitar Hero, but here formalized in a phase of specific game and taking on the guitar with four new freight assigned to this task. In time, the guitarist slides therefore his hand at the base of the neck and can play all the notes without scratching. The great class. Finally, some pieces will conclude by long sessions free, on drums as the guitar, providing a small stipend bonus points but also unbridled fun to close a song so terribly dramatic and rock'n'roll. The foot. In short, Rock Band imposes its unifying power to blows and immersive small malignant ideas and compositions cleverly edited.
Band world tour can't be played online
It remains to address the two modes Careers proposed the game Alone as multiplayer, a tour begins with the creation of his avatar. If the possibilities of starting his honest, personalized look of its creation are much more extensive thereafter. In addition to clothes and accessories win over the songs, the player can do some shopping in the store made available. Grouped in several styles, these small coquetry allow especially lascar create a truly unique and stylish (or grotesque to taste) away design deplorable characters generic Guitar Hero 3. Thus incarnate, the player can then launch a solo career, after all classical or meet some friends for a World Tour in local culmination of the experience offered by Rock Band. This tour offers an original challenge: to leave the room smoky its infancy and access to Tracklist more consistent, the group will ensure a successful show enough to gradually increase its base of fans. The challenge is therefore based on the reputation built up over the concerts, but beware of performance-sanctioned against the disenchantment of a number of faithful! To repeat, this mode also offers to participate in small thematic tours during which the pieces after another without dead time. While the former are quite peinardes with a small handful of tracks performer, the demands go up to the apocalyptic crescendo Endless setlist and fifty-eight songs. Exhausting. In short, a menu damn well supplied and a period of just huge.
Some hardware reliability concerns.
Finish this test with the inevitable charge against the price has hit the game in Europe. To say that this is a scandal is the obvious. From $ 170, or 110 , Rock Band saw its rate rise as quickly as a barrel of oil to reach the 235 ECU. But the most deplorable in this case is that the injury will undergo the game and its creators on our good old continent. It is disgusting to see a title as playful and powerfully unifying become inaccessible to ordinary players for financial reasons unexplained. We have great reluctance to publish a test for Rock Band. We have refused to buy the game, Electronic Arts did not bother to send us a test version. So as a loan that we obtained the title. However it seemed unfair to Harmonix to spend their creation in silence, as it has excited. But Electronic Arts deserves a serious setback on our soil for this appalling lack of trade. In short, do not pay to play Rock Band, steal it.
Rock On
Conclusion
The least we can say is that Harmonix was able to bounce back with panache! What lesson my friends! Rock Band is an unprecedented fun experience (outside the Japanese archipelago, means) or, as seems one of our developers loved, "best party game ever." Accessories quality, scholarly findings, a tracklist layout with brio, a visual identity aguiche and a fantastic multiplayer are undoubtedly Rock Band the best game music to date. It then regret even more bitterly an intolerable sale price of $ 110 which would handicap the game of much of its audience. Simply disgusting ...
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