Rockband Fun But Could Be Better By Mom2One on - Updated Oct 15, 2011
As you might know from previous reviews, we are a Guitar Hero household. My son and I love Guitar Hero.
When Rockband came out for the Wii recently I decided that would be a great addition and the cool thing would be the drums!
I ordered it on Amazon and patiently waited for it to be delivered. When it finally arrived my son and I dug right into it. We set it up and started playing.
The concept is the same as Guitar Hero, following the scrolling music notes going across your TV screen. This time you can play guitar, drums or even be the singer.
Is it fun, yes it is fun, but truthfully I like Guitar Hero much, much better. I was slightly disappointed in Rockband. The graphics on Rockband just didn't compare to the graphics on Guitar Hero. Maybe it is because I am used to Guitar Hero, but I don't like how Rockband's main menu is set up. I also like Guitar Hero's music selection much better. Rockband seemed to have a lot more newer music, with a few older songs thrown in. I would prefer if it had a more balanced of the two. I will say I love playing Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi on Rockband! Now that rocks!!
All in all Rockband is fun and although I found a lot of stuff I don't like about it, I do enjoy playing it.
Would I recommend this? It depends. I recently found out Guitar Hero is now coming out with a whole band system, like Rockband, it will have the drums, guitar and a chance to sing. If I would of known that before buying Rockband I would have waited.
So my recommendation is this, if you are a huge Guitar Hero fan, I personally would wait until Guitar Hero on Tour is released.
While Rockband is fun, I don't know if I would have spent the money on it if I had known about the Guitar Hero system coming out.
I have already preordered that!
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ROCKBAND Wii Purchased at: Amazon.com Price: 169.00
My brother and I went in together and bought this last year. It was a lot of fun until the bass drum pedal broke. I have heard they're making the instruments with metal components instead of plastic ones for the next edition of Rockband, so hopefully they will be more durable. Go easy on the plastic instruments! I like Guitar Hero better, too. ;)
we want to get this so bad. Guitar hero fans, now we want to make the family a band.
I know of one household that will be waiting for the On Tour version. Thanks for the info and heads up on this. Appreciate
Sounds like you love the other game. I hear lots about Guitar hero. Thanx for the info...but not my kinda' game. :)
Can't wait for the October release, the girls are driving me crazy.
If guitar hero only had better DLC, then I would have no problem with it. 3 was so horribly managed download content wise, there was just no room for expanding it. Rock band has dominated, along with RB2 coming out, and having over 500 songs available by the end of this year. Plus after having problems with my GH3 les paul, and having to mod it to get it to work correctly, I'm worried as to the ability of the GH4 stuff.