Rock Band Albums Announced

Harmonix have announced six more full albums to be released for Rock Band over the next few months. Make that five actually, I'll explain shortly...

So then, coming soon is Foo Fighters "The Colour and the Shape", Red Hot Chili Peppers "Blood Sugar Sex Magik", Jane's Addiction "Nothing's Shocking", Megadeth "Peace Sells... But Who's Buying", Stevie Ray Vaughn "Texas Flood" and a special No Doubt "Best Of" compilation. The last one being more of an EP for obvious reasons, in fact lets face it, it's a single.

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Are You Ready To Rock... Again?

Details on Rock Band 2 are coming thick and fast now. Originally it was stated that it would see a world wide release during September but that was later retracted, certainly as far as Europe goes. There are many improvements by the sound of it and best of all your downloaded songs from the first one will play perfectly in Rock Band 2. The new guitar and drums will be wireless with a sturdier strum bar, a reinforced kick pedal, quieter pads with added velocity sensors. All your current instruments will still function just fine if you don't fancy taking out a bank loan to afford the new replacements though. There will be no Spinal Tap style tactics of amps going to 11 as it's one more louder, so you won't be finding 6 fret buttons on the new guitar or an extra few drum pads to try and out do Guitar Hero.

There will be some form of drum tutor to teach you basic beats and fills. The World Tour mode will be available both online and off and there will be no more band leaders so your band isn't reliant on that one person always being there. You can even switch instruments mid tour. Online you'll be able to compete against other bands around the world with contests designed by Harmonix. All songs on the disc will be master recordings and there will be over 80 included. There have been a few lists leaked on the internet that may or may not be accurate but these songs are definitely confirmed:

Dream Theater “Panic Attack“
System of a Down “Chop Suey”
Foo Fighters “Everlong”
The Muffs “Kids in America”
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Give it Away”
Motörhead “Ace of Spades”
Cheap Trick “Hello There”
Elvis Costello “Pump it Up”
Journey “Anyway You Want It”
The Who “Pinball Wizard”

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I Quit!

Or more to the point... do you?

What is it with people who quit early when playing a ranked game on Rock Band online? Well, not only Rock Band but it's this game that seems absolutely rife with them. It seems that if you're winning by a reasonable margin at some point in an online game I reckon 50% of the time your opponent will quit the game early. It's almost like you have to make mistakes on purpose to try and make sure it's a close game right down to the last few notes. Although even then I've had people quit on me. I started off sending them messages but frankly I can no longer be bothered and they just go straight on to my avoided player list but it does spoil the game. This game is badly in need of a patch to introduce some kind of disconnect statistic or something similar to try and lessen the number of times this happens. It's not clear to me if there is any punishment for quitting early but I certainly don't seem to be awarded a win when it happens. Having reached the 20 wins at Tug of War achievement I doubt I'll be playing that mode any longer as it just takes all the fun out of it. I'm proud to say I haven't quit once as if I don't play well enough I deserve to lose, and I have done on many occasions.

So a message to all you quitters out there, (there's a lot of you and you know who you are!) in most games there's a winner and a loser and you need to learn to deal with both. What's the point of playing to win if you aren't prepared to lose?

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Rock Band: One Man's Journey

Apologies for another YouTube post but it follows on nicely from yesterdays Wii Fit journey...



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Rock Band Unplugged

Looking forward to Rock Band? Just be aware that this is what you really sound like. I just love the singer as he shuffles around not quite sure what to do with his arms...