Rock Band still jamming: 200 bonus songs and counting…
Harmonix/MTV Games’ mega-popular music-based video game – where you play guitar- and drum-shaped controllers to launch your virtual band to stardom – has hit a milestone for downloadable content.
Harmonix/MTV Games’ mega-popular music-based video game – where you play guitar- and drum-shaped controllers to launch your virtual band to stardom – has hit a milestone for downloadable content.
More than 200 bonus songs can now be downloaded and played in Rock Band, whether it’s individual tracks or complete albums; MTV Games says it has sold more than 12 million tracks since the game debuted toward the end of last year for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
The latest offering includes the Pixies’ 1989 hit album, Doolittle, which costs $1.99 per track for PlayStation 3 or 160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360, or $18.99 for the entire album (1,520 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360).
Also new is "Hammerhead," the lead single from The Offspring’s highly anticipated new album, Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace.
There are many people in their 40's who like my wife and I, love playing rockband but have a hard time playing songs that are mainly targeted towards young kids. There are many good songs for us but we would love to see more RETRO! I can't wait to see more stuff like Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles, Bryan Adams, Neil Diamond, Tom Petty, The Eagles and the Doors! Also, Is there ever going to be a COUNTRY rockband type game? Or even CLASSIC country like Johnny Cash, Buck Owens?
There would be no country s*** to even go near rockband, that would completely kill the game! Its called ROCKband, not COUNTRYband, not S***band….ROCKband.
Otherwise i like the idea of the whole retro stuff like Fleetwood Mac and Beatles stuff.
Kyra, just because YOU don't like things "country-ish" doesn't mean others don't … in fact, it's the "richest" demographic out there. SOME country is actually challenging to play, and you might just surprise yourself.
I think since the game has been out for so long, they should include the downloadable songs for free to promote the game set, especially when activision's new game gets released.