Rock Band 3

Developer: Harmonix
Publisher: MTV Games
Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS
Release Date: 29 October 2010

Setlist:

2000s:

•Amy Winehouse - "Rehab"
•At the Drive-In - "One Armed Scissor"
•Avenged Sevenfold - "The Beast & the Harlot"
•Dover - "King George"
•The Bronx - "False Alarm"
•The Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1"
•HIM (His Infernal Majest) - "Killing Loneliness"
•Hypernove - "Viva La Resistance"
•Ida Maria - "Oh My God"*
•Juanes - "Me Enamora"
•Metric - "Combat Baby"
•Paramore - "Misery Business"*
•Phoenix - "Lasso"*
•Poni Hoax - "Antibodies"
•Pretty Girls Make Graves - "Something Bigger, Something Brighter"
•Queens of the Stone Age - "No One Knows"
•The Ravonettes - "Last Dance"
•Rilo Kiley - "Portions for Foxes"*
•Riverboat Gamblers - "Don't Bury Me...I'm Still Not Dead"
•Slipknot - "Before I Forget"
•The Sounds - "Living in America"
•Tegan & Sara - "The Con"
•Them Crooked Vultures - "Dead End Friends"
•Tokio Hotel - "Humanoid"*
•The Vines - "Get Free"*
•The White Stripes - "The Hardest Button to Button"*

1990s:

•Faith No More - "Midlife Crisis"*
•Filter - "Hey Man, Nice Shot"
•Jane's Addiction - "Been Caught Stealing"*
•Maná - "Oye Mi Amor"
•Marilyn Manson - "The Beautiful People"
•The Muffs - "Outer Space"
•Phish - "Llama"
•Primus - "Jerry Was a Racecar Driver"
•Rammstein - "Du Hast"
•Smash Mouth - "Walkin' On The Sun"*
•Spacehog - "In the Meantime"
•Stone Temple Pilots - "Plush"
•Swingin' Utters - "This Bastard's Life"

1980s:

•Anthrax - "Caught in a Mosh"
•Big Country - "In a Big Country"
•The Cure - "Just Like Heaven"*
•Def Leppard - "Foolin'"*
•Devo - "Whip It"
•Dio - "Rainbow in the Dark"
•Dire Straits - "Walk of Life"
•Echo & the Bunnymen - "The Killing Moon"
•Huey Lewis and the News - "The Power of Love"
•INXS - "Need You Tonight"*
•J. Geils Band - "Centerfold"
•Joan Jett - "I Love Rock N' Roll"*
•Night Ranger - "Sister Christian"*
•Ozzy Osbourne - "Crazy Train"*
•The Police - "Don't Stand So Close to Me"
•Roxette - "The Look"*
•The Smiths - "Stop Me if You Think You've Heard This One Before"
•Tears for Fears - "Everbody Wants to Rule the World"
•Whitesnake - "Here I Go Again"

1970s:

•The B-52's - "Rock Lobster"*
•Blondie - "Heart of Glass"
•Bob Marley - "Get Up, Stand Up"
•Chicago - "25 or 6 to 4"
•Deep Purple - "Smoke on the Water"
•Doobie Brothers - "China Grove"*
•Elton John - "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting"
•Foreigner - "Cold As Ice"*
•Golden Earring - "Radar Love"
•John Lennon - "Imagine"
•Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Free Bird"
•Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody"*
•Ramones - "I Wanna Be Sedated"
•Steve Miller Band - "Fly Like an Eagle"
•T.Rex - "20th Century Boy"
•Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "I Need to Know"
•War - "Low Rider"
•Warren Zevon - "Werewolves of London"
•Yes - "Roundabout"*

1960s:

•Beach Boys - "Good Vibrations (Live)"
•David Bowie - "Space Oddity"
•The Doors - "Break on Through (To the Other Side)"*
•James Brown - "I Got You (I Feel Good" - Alternate Studio Version*
•The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Crosstown Traffic"*
•The Who - "I Can See for Miles"

Reviews:

OXM- 9.5

It's not only an achievement within it's own genre, but a landmark for the entire medium as well.

Destructoid - 9.5

It’s a game that’s so solid that Harmonix could continue to support the game with downloadable content for years to come, and fans would find little to complain about. If they’re already dreaming of a follow-up, they’ve got their work cut out for them, because Rock Band 3 seems about as close to perfect as you’re going to get.

Joystiq - 5/5

Video games -- not just rhythm games, but all video games -- rarely show this much ambition. Even more rare are occasions where developers manage to fulfill the impossibly lofty goals they set before themselves. Rock Band 3 manages both with ease, backing up brilliant ideas with flawless execution.

Game Informer - 9.25

In many ways, Rock Band 3 is a culmination of Harmonix’s efforts to bring music to the masses. But it’s also a new chapter in the franchise that starts the gradual merging of real and game-based music. Plenty of naysayers have already declared music games dead. Harmonix certainly hasn’t gotten the message; this band is primed for a new tour.



Only one week to go!

I've got the pro guitar on order with ShopTo for £108.85, cheapest I found it for. I can't wait to try it out. It's not the real Squier Stratocaster, as that will cost a lot more, and I don't think it's out until a few months after the release anyway.

I'll wait to hear if the new instruments are worth getting, but I'm excited for this. Great setlist.

It's got Avenged - that's actually epic. If I can get my guitar beck from my big brother I might just get this.

music games

Rez HD is pretty much the only music game I can be bothered playing.

I only wished it was a bit longer. Roll on Child of Eden.


Anyway, the setlist for this is way better than the wank they put out for Guitar Hero.

Seany C wrote: music games

gtfo music n00b

Anyway, all the reviews for this so far have been excellent, Harmonix have totally gone all out and perfected the genre by the sounds of it.

So they'll stop making them now?

Hopefully after Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock only selling 86,000 units in the first week (compared to Guitar Hero 3 selling 1.4 million in the first week ) that Kotick will stop milking the GH series now.

Harmonix maybe should have backed off with some of their spin-offs, but it's a shame people like to jump on the hate bandwagon. If Harmonix were just the ones developing these guitar rhythm games, then there would have only been 1 Guitar Hero game on the current-gen consoles.

Anyway here's so you can understand it a bit better.

Harmonix

Guitar Hero series

Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero 2

Spin-off

Guitar Hero Encore: Rock the 80's

Rock Band series

Rock Band
Rock Band 2
Rock Band 3

Spin-off

Lego Rock Band
The Beatles: Rock Band
Green Day: Rock Band

Instead, with Activision demanding more Guitar Hero games, now we have all of these as well:

Neversoft

Guitar Hero 3
Guitar Hero: World Tour
Guitar Hero 5
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock

Spin-off

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
Guitar Hero: Metallica
Guitar Hero: Smash Hits
Guitar Hero: Van Halen

(not inculding the handheld games)

Like I said, hopefully Activision back off now and Harmonix can just support Rock Band 3 with DLC for the next few years, which they will.

This game is fantastic, by the way, just the pro guitar was delayed, so I have to wait until next week until it comes before I can see how good it is.

I give it a 10/10, though, first one this gen, it's just perfect.

I seriously want The keyboard...

Ipso-Shrapnel wrote:I seriously want The keyboard...

I got it yesterday, it's ace, the pro mode will kick your ass if your not prepared - I seriously need to keep at the lessons the game provides.