The Greatest Game EVER!

I'm here right now to discuss the game ROCK BAND. If you've played any of the Guitar Hero games then you shall be familiar with the concept but that was just the beginning, if not I'll explain the basics or you can head to rockband.com to watch video. Here is a game that is just plain ole FUN! no matter how good you are. I've jammed online with men, women, kids or all ages and everyone has said the same thing....this game ROCKS! Well lets face it, it literally rocks.....Rock Band comes with a guitar(a replica Fender Straticaster), drum set consisting of 4 colored pads and kick pedal, microphone and game disc. The concept of the game is to start your own band, name it, and rock your way into eterninty with a Lead Guitarist, Bassist, Drummer, and Singer. The game is played on 4 levels easy, medium, hard, and expert and obviously gets harder as you advance each level. Basically you select a song and the fret board will appear onscreen in which the notes scroll at you and you strum the guitar and hold the corresponding colored fret, or hit the colored pad on the drum set. For vocals the words scroll across karaoke style with a line showing pitch. You score points based on how well you play each song, with bonuses called overdrive. Now what is most fabulous about this game is that even playing on easy you honestly feel like you are bringing down the house. You can play solo, offline with 4 friends, or online with 4 friends or random people over Xbox Live. Even playing with others you can have some playing on Expert, some on Medium or Easy and each player is scored separately so that it doesn't hurt you if you aren't as good as somebody else. As long as you play your notes everyone wins! How great is that where people of differing levels can play together and it doesn't matter. Now for what makes this game so great, the song list.......

1960's
"Gimme Shelter" Rolling Stones

1970's
"Won't Get Fooled Again" The Who
"Suffragette City" David Bowie
"Blitzkrieg Bop" Ramones
"Detroit Rock City" Kiss
"Next to You" Police
"Train Kept a Rolling" Aerosmith
"Mississippi Queen" Mountain
"Paranoid" Black Sabbath
"Ballroom Blitz" Sweet
"Foreplay/Longtime" Boston
"Don't Fear the Reaper" Blue Oyster Cult
"Highway Star" Deep Purple
"Flirtin With Disaster" Molly Hatchet

1980's
"Wanted Dead or Alive" Bon Jovi
"Epic" Faith No More
"Orange Crush" REM
"Tom Sawyer" Rush
"Run to the Hills" Iron Maiden
"Should I Stay or Should I Go" Clash
"Wave of Mutilation" Pixies

1990's
"Learn to Fly" Foo Fighters
"In Bloom" Nirvana
"Say It Aint So" Weezer
"Creep" Radiohead
"Celebrity Skin" Hole
"Black Hole Sun" Soundgarden
"Enter Sandman" Metallica
"Vasoline" Stone Temple Pilots
"Cherub Rock" Smashing Pumpkins
"Sabotage" Beastie Boys'
"I Think I'm Paranoid" Garbage

2000's
"Main Offender" Hives
"Reptillia" Strokes
"Here it goes Again" OK Go
"Maps" Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Welcome Home" Coheed and Cambria
"When You Were Young" Killers
"Go With The Flow" Queens of the Stone Age
"Are You Gonna Be My Girl" Jet
"The Hand That Feeds" Nine Inch Nails
"Dani California" Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Dead on Arrival" Fall Out Boy

Not only that but they've already put 3 songs packs by Metallica, The Police, Queens of the Stone Age, along with "Fortunate Son" Creedence and "Juke Box Hero" by Foreigner with more to come including the entire Guess Who album. An amazing song list on an amazing game by some people with an amazing idea. If you haven't played Rock Band or any of the Guitar Hero's you are trully missing out on a great new wave of video games that aren't just mindless violence. Now I'm gonna go play so cow bell on Don't Fear The Reaper....wooooo!