Rockband is too fun
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Dave and I just spent 8 hours playing Rockband on XBox360 with some of my co-workers. I kid you not. We started after lunch and took one 30-minute break for dinner. It is the most addictive and fun game that I’ve played in a while. Dave took to the “guitar” and I took to the “drums.” We both are able to play songs on the Hard setting now. My co-worker is lending us Rockband until her XBox gets fixed. After they left, Dave and I played by ourselves for another hour trying to beat songs that we couldn’t do earlier in the day. I can’t believe how fun it is. We’re planning to buy our own set. (After my right ankle heals. It’s really painful now from hitting the drum’s foot pedal nonstop.)
The songs are, as the name suggests, all rock songs. A lot of the songs are lesser-known songs of popular bands like Nirvana, Weezer, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, Fallout Boys, and Stone Temple Pilots. Some are hit songs like Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden, and some are songs most people have never heard of. But you can buy more contemporary and popular songs off XBox marketplace, and they are constantly coming out with new songs. If it really takes off, they will have new songs debut on the game platform before CD or radio. That would be bizarre, eh?
You can create a band with your teammates and go on tour, play rock offs, and earn points to spend toward new outfits and tattoos the the like. As you get better, you can hire a band manager, sound team, and bodyguards. This is the billboard for the band we created -
Dave and I when we first started to learn, before we realized our natural tendencies were for the opposite instrument -
