Rock Band is the group music game revolution with simultaneous guitar, bass, drums and singing. Epic rock setlist, rhythmic gameplay precision, memorable family co-op. The PS3 reference group rhythm game.
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Category
Rhythm4 players12+
Co-op
Description
Premiere iteration of Harmonix music game with physical instruments and fleshed-out rock roster. Published by MTV Games, released in Europe in November 2007. Simultaneous guitar, bass, drums, and vocals, over 80 licensed rock songs at launch, band career mode, online multiplayer, and weekly song downloads. Music game reference.
Rock Band review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
MAX
Music
★★★★★
"Legendary"
1/5
Story
★★★★★
"Anecdotal"
The art direction tells a band's rise through its venues. You start in a smoky bar with close walls and a few motionless spectators, then the places grow over the career, clubs, theaters, at last stadiums where the crowd sways and holds up lighters. The climb in fame reads in the scale of the setting and the density of the audience, each gig marking another rung climbed toward glory.
Vocals, guitar, bass and drums together, the game turns the living room into a stage thanks to a selection of rock hits played as a band. Reproducing these cult tracks together delivers an irresistible collective exhilaration. This musical generosity, cut for sharing, redefined the pleasure of the rhythm game among friends.
Gameplay
"Excellent"
Fun
"From the very first seconds"
Bringing guitar, bass, drums and vocals together to play as a real band: this rhythm game turns the living room into a concert stage and creates an incomparable festive bond. Coordinating your friends on a frenzied hit delivers an instant collective joy. Colourful, generous and fiercely convivial, a pillar of the music game that reinvents the evening among friends around music.
Addictiveness
"Obsessive"
Holding your part on guitar, drums or vocals as a band across a galvanizing setlist turns each track into a unifying moment you instantly want to chain on. Unlocking songs and climbing the difficulty restart the session. The peripherals are essential and the formula familiar, but the energy of playing as a band keeps an immediate grip, especially among friends.
Difficulty
"Balanced"
Lifespan
"Massive"
Plugging in guitar, bass, drums and mic at once opens a band career fed by over eighty rock tracks from the start, with new downloadable songs arriving weekly. The longevity rests not on a story but on instrument mastery and the friends' nights you replay endlessly. That music-driven staying power turned the formula into a lasting phenomenon.
A rhythm game from Harmonix, Rock Band brings together up to four players on guitar, bass, drums and vocals to perform a varied rock repertoire together, in a band experience new at launch. The feel of playing as a group, the quality of the tracklist and the pleasure of coordination make it a convivial, genre founding party. The reliance on plastic instruments and the closure of the online song store limit access today. An excellent party game for fans of group rhythm and musical evenings among friends on PS3.
