| Product Summary | | Manufacturer: Electronic Arts | | Format: PlayStation 2 | | Mfg Part#: 16779 | | UPC: 00014633167795 | | Buy.com Sku: 205844161 | | Item#: G25VX4 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 412 | | See more in Simulation | |
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| Time to Release Your Inner Rock Star! This Special Edition box includes game, guitar, microphone and drum set -- everything you need to get in the game and rock out! The Rock Band Special Edition will support 1-4 players. Rock on.
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Dive into Rock Band's challenging and addicting game modes and rock out to your favorite tunes. Put together a band, play in it, and tour for fame and fortune -- all while learning to master lead/bass guitar, drums and vocals. Learn to play songs spanning all genres of rock and including many master recordings from legendary artists! Rock Band will be released on the Xbox 360, PS3, and PS2 systems.
Full Tracklist: Most tracks recorded by the original artist!
- "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" – Jet
- "Ballroom Blitz" – Sweet
- "Black Hole Sun" – Soundgarden
- "Blitzkrieg Bop" – Ramones
- "Celebrity Skin" – Hole
- "Cherub Rock" – Smashing Pumpkins
- "Creep"* – Radiohead
- "Dani California" – Red Hot Chili Peppers
- "Dead on Arrival" – Fall Out Boy
- "Detroit Rock City" – Kiss
- "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" – Blue Öyster Cult
- "The Electric Version" – The New Pornographers
- "Enter Sandman" – Metallica
- "Epic" – Faith No More
- "Flirtin' with Disaster" – Molly Hatchet
- "Foreplay/Long Time" – Boston
- "Gimme Shelter" – The Rolling Stones
- "Go with the Flow" – Queens of the Stone Age
- "Green Grass and High Tides" – The Outlaws
- "The Hand That Feeds" – Nine Inch Nails
- "Here It Goes Again" – OK Go
- "Highway Star" – Deep Purple
- "I Think I'm Paranoid" – Garbage
- "In Bloom" – Nirvana
- "Learn to Fly" – Foo Fighters
- "Main Offender" – The Hives
- "Maps" – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- "Mississippi Queen" – Mountain
- "Next to You" – The Police
- "Orange Crush" – R.E.M.
- "Paranoid" – Black Sabbath
- "Reptilia" – The Strokes
- "Run to the Hills" – Iron Maiden
- "Sabotage"* – Beastie Boys
- "Say It Ain't So" – Weezer
- "Should I Stay or Should I Go" – The Clash
- "Suffragette City" – David Bowie
- "Tom Sawyer" – Rush
- "Train Kept A-Rollin'" – Aerosmith
- "Vasoline" – Stone Temple Pilots
- "Wanted Dead or Alive" – Bon Jovi
- "Wave of Mutilation" – Pixies
- "Welcome Home"* – Coheed and Cambria
- "When You Were Young" – The Killers
- "Won't Get Fooled Again" – The Who
Bonus Songs: Unlock these songs as you progress through the game!
- "29 Fingers" – The Konks
- "Blood Doll" – Anarchy Club
- "Brainpower" – Freezepop
- "Can't Let Go" – Death of the Cool
- "Day Late, Dollar Short" – The Acro-Brats
- "I Get By" – Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives
- "I'm So Sick" – Flyleaf
- "Nightmare" – Crooked X
- "Outside" – Tribe
- "Pleasure (Pleasure)" – Bang Camaro
- "Seven"* – Vagiant
- "Time We Had" – The Mother Hips
- "Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld" – Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld
"...you will have fun with Rock Band. We guarantee it." GamePro.com
"It's an experience like no other in videogames..." Sal Accardo, GameSpy.com
"...one of the most rewarding co-op events you could ask for." Dan Amrich, GamesRadar.com
| | Features |  | 45 Tracks at Launch! Rock Band will ship with 45 fearsome tracks from artists like Bon Jovi and The Ramones to Black Sabbath and Stone Temple Pilots. | | Boost Your Bonus! Earn bonus points for your band during Rock Band's Unison Phrase opportunities if everyone plays perfectly. | | Call Out the Crowd! Vocalists can bring the crowd to their feet during Rock Band's freestyle vocal fill windows. Ad-lib your own words or shout to the crowd to raise the rock intensity of the performance. | | Create Your Own Rock Avatar! Mold a unique rocker using Rock Band's character creator. Chose from gender, body shape, face, hair, clothes, tattoos and signature moves. Don't forget to pick your specialized rockin' instrument. | | Drumming in the Spotlight! Showcase a real drum solo with Rock Band's freestyle drum fill windows featured in each song. Break out your own rhythm and style as anything goes! | | Music from Metallica! Legendary thrash metal group Metallica has signed on to offer several tracks as digitally-distributed game levels for Rock Band as well as "Enter Sandman" for the Rock Band ship disc. | | Play Together in Your Living Room or Across the World! Rock Band offers deep online functionality, allowing players to rock together whether they're in Rhode Island or Reykjavik. | | Rock 'n' Roll Never Dies! Full support for downloadable content delivers never-ending challenges. New content will be available every week. | | Rock the Full Album! Download full albums for play with Rock Band including the iconic rock album 'Who's Next' by The Who. | | Save Your Mates! Band mates can fail out of a song for poor performance, but the band still plays on. Rescue your failing mate by busting out signature moves and blistering solos to wow the crowd with showmanship. | | This Special Edition Box Includes Game, Guitar (Wired), Microphone and Drum Set: Everything you need to get in the game and rock out! The Rock Band Special Edition will support 1-4 players. Rock on. | | Unrivaled Song Library! Major record labels and leading music publishers have signed on to provide unrivaled access to master recordings and legendary rock artists -- from punk, metal and alternative to classic and southern rock. |
| | Professional Reviews | IGN.com 10 of 10
Metallica, The Ramones, The Rolling Stones -- these are some of the legendary bands in rock. And now, thanks to Harmonix's Rock Band, you and your friends can join the legendary pantheon of rock gods. The latest game from Harmonix ups the ante on other music titles by combining guitars, drums, and singing into one awesome package. You and your friends will rock out with some of the greatest bands in history. And Fall Out Boy. While Rock Band doesn't offer the insanely intense (and perhaps impossible) challenge of Guitar Hero III, it's a game that everyone will have fun playing. This may just be among the best party games ever released...Rock Band has one major difference from other music games: it's not about one person's experience. This is a group effort and the gameplay is geared towards teamwork. While the four members of your band must all be concerned with their own performances, you must work together to earn epic scores in Rock Band. Each instrument comes with its own Overdrive (AKA Star Power) system. Individually, they kick in a x2 multiplier for the player who enters Overdrive. But you can stack other member's Overdrives to creative massive multipliers for the entire group. Get all four members in Overdrive at the same time for a bonus x8. To do this, though, requires communication with your other team members...Rock Band is a great game. The presentation elements are top-notch and take music games to a new level; consider the bar raised. Though there are three separate solo careers, Rock Band is best experienced with a group of friends. The only major concerns are with the hardware. The guitar is inferior to other versions on the market and it seems likely that before Rock Band II arrives, many will have broken their drum kits (how long can you beat that thing before it dies?). Still, this is an excellent game overall. Anyone who invests the extra money to purchase some of the stellar downloadable content is certain to be playing Rock Band well into next year. Heck, you can tell by the mammoth size of this review just how much there is to say about Rock Band. Without question, Rock Band is one of the must-have games of the year.
WorthPlaying.com 9 of 10
Harmonix's Rock Band for PlayStation 3, with the addition of drums and score-accumulating, star-rated vocals to lead and bass guitar, is the natural progression of the popular, critical-darling Guitar Hero (GH) franchise the studio created. At present, with separate instruments not yet available, the game is best acquired in a bundle that, though hardly inexpensive, is overall a good value. The bundle includes the Rock Band game; a drum controller that looks, and more or less behaves, like a MIDI drum-pad kit; a guitar controller modeled after perhaps the most recognizable name in electric guitars, the Fender Stratocaster; and a high-quality Logitech-manufactured USB microphone...Any instrument, including vocals, can be completed in a solo career mode in Rock Band. The advancing difficulty of set-lists is consistent from one musical role to another, although the songs in the set-lists vary; on the real-world take, this makes good sense, as some songs are more difficult to sing than drum, more complicated on lead guitar than drums, etc. Yeah, sure, rarely are the bass sections of a band's oeuvre more difficult than the lead guitar parts -- yes, Thompson Twins, I'm looking at you. But then there's Geddy Lee. Although considered his band's frontman, he's not the principal lyricist -- as noted in one of Rock Band's brief loading screens -- but his signature bass style is perhaps most responsible for that particular Rush sound almost any popular music fan can identify in a mere few opening bars...My single viable complaint with Rock Band lies in "Band World Tour" mode; if you fail a song again and again, losing thousands of fans at every failure, yet you refuse to give in and abandon the gig, choosing instead to persevere, you can work yourself down to dead-zero fans. That's fine. But there's a point at which if you've previously done well enough on others songs and sets on high enough difficulty settings, it's very difficult to gain back more than 10 or 14 fans at a go. Essentially, the game punishes you for not giving up. You're better off starting from scratch with a new band. It's a relatively minor quibble, but as a potential passion and motivator of budding real-world musicians, Rock Band should be more tolerant of those players who refuse to give in to the tough songs even on the higher difficulty settings. Otherwise, it's only rock 'n' roll, but I like it. - Sanford May
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