Abstrakt: It’s time to hit the stage once more with a living room full of plastic instruments. While there was The Beatles: Rock Band last year, the team at Harmonix and EA Games didn’t come forward with a true sequel of sorts. This year is different, because ...
Rock Band 3 is a tough one to judge. If you don't have any downloadable content, then the experience isn't nearly as robust or interesting. And if you don't buy the new keyboard or Pro Guitar, well, then it's just more Rock Band. Not that there's anyth...
Abstrakt: There’s certainly been no shortage of the music rhythm-based games this generation. From the almost-annual Guitar Hero iterations to DJ Hero and other emerging franchises, Rock Band has always had stiff competition in the genre. But, between the number...
The new UI updates make the game easier to navigate and play, Updated career mode encourages you to explore, while the Goals give you fans as you invest time with the game, The song list is exceptional, with 83 tracks included, The Pro mode will teach you
Peripherals are expensive; to play every aspect of this game you'll need to invest hundreds of dollars, There can be a rough learning curve on Pro Mode tracks, Won't teach you how to read music, The way the guitar notes are shown in Pro Mode is hard to pi
The career mode is much widerIn Rock Band 3, the career mode is less structured than in previous games. You gain "fans" exclusively by completing achievement-like "goals." Some of these goals are simple; you can pick up fans just by going into the online...
Pro guitar and keyboards will turn gamers into real musicians -- really, set list is full of unexpectedly excellent instrumentation, keyboards are surprisingly fun (even in legacy mode), smart new additions to interface and career mode
Pro guitar trainer could be more user-friendly, pro guitar and keys could be prohibitively challenging for players with no music experience, set list may prove too varied for players interested in specific genres
The bar for music games has been irrefutably raised. Like magic, gamers can now be transformed into musicians. provided they don't run screaming for the hills at the first sight of a barre chord...
Abstrakt: Well that was worth the wait. Rock Band 2 was released over two years ago now – unless you live here in New Zealand, of course – so its inevitable sequel has had plenty of time to be highly anticipated. Combine that with the music game sales that are c...
The new pro mode puts the Rock Band series streets ahead of Guitar Hero in terms of innovation, although as it's essentially learning a proper instrument, it requires a lot of dedication. Perhaps more than some players can muster, but as methods of mus...
In the meantime, Rock Band 3 blows the genre wide open to anyone willing to sit down and give it a go, and with a wide range of skill settings and peripherals to choose from, only the most hardened rock snobs will continue to look down their noses at i...
