Rock Band has Trends (New Gamespot Article)

[coheedfails]

according to a new Gamespot article on Rock Band, when choosing your character you have to choose an attitude "You can pick between rock, metal, punk, goth, and so on, and the effects on your dude or dudette are subtle but immediately noticeable. Go with the punk attitude and you get a good Sex Pistols lip curl going on. The goth choice turns your character's visage downward for proper floor-gazing. It's a superficial choice but also a crucial one, of course. So your band is formed and you've rented out a practice space in your home town. Here's where Rock Band diverges from the old Guitar Hero formula. You'd probably expect each city and each venue to simply represent a tier of unique songs that you can only progress beyond by completing all those songs. (We did.) But the Band World Tour is far more open-ended and interesting than that. Each venue instead represents a tier of activities that you can undertake, from single-song performances to mystery set lists, which can throw any of the previously unlocked songs at you back-to-back. Later in the game, you'll find more specific challenges, such as a punk marathon that requires you to properly play every punk song in the game, or sponsored events that will feature major contributions from some of the game's licensees, like Fender."

this is a very good article, talks about the Band World Tour in detail, how each city has different activities to do, you dont just go to a venue play 5 songs and go on to the next, you can choose from different cities to go to next, it's non-linear as compared to GH games. now i'm even more excited to play this game :) there's alot more to rock band than just rocking out!!!!

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/puzzle/rockband/news.html?sid=6181200&tag=topslot;title;1

[Tendoza]

Sounds cool, I don't mind the fact of re-playing songs at all TBH.

Nice to see more depth to the rythym genre!

[MotleyPriest111]

I hope there's a Glam Metal personality trait to choose from.

[HMXJohnlok]

Glam personality type? Not exactly, but you will not be disappointed by the character creator.

[ThePaska]

Glam personality type? Not exactly, but you will not be disappointed by the character creator.

From everything I have read about it so far, it doesn't look like it will come even close to disappointing.

[tf5_bassist]

From everything I have read about it so far, it doesn't look like it will come even close to disappointing.

What WAS disappointing, however, was AOTS's "hands-on with the character designer" yesterday.

Seriously, this character designer is going to be awesome.

Psychobilly attitude, anyone?

[TheRocker]

This is great :D I love how RockBand is coming all together. I think i will be Rock or Punk

[IbanezBassist_v2]

Metal for me, thank you!