thorn_9
11-11-2007, 02:01 AM
So I finally made it down to Best Buy to give Rock Band a go. I had my 5 yr old son with me, so I knew I wasn't going to get a lot of time with the game, but he jumped on drums and I grabbed the guitar.
The entire time I had people walking behind us and standing next to us murmering about that's the game their son, brother, friend was talking about, so the word is definately on the street in Salt Lake City. This is a good thing.
So I grabbed the guitar and the first thing I noticed was the timing in the notes or the force of the required strum was different. After failing out a song I got the hang of it. Either the guitar had alot of abuse or the strum required more follow through than my xplorer at home. My son, being 5 and never playing drums failed us out many times before I switched. The guitar felt good to me, more natural than the xplorer thats for sure.
The drums...aah I fell inlove with this immidiately. My biggest complaint, though it made perfect sence, with guitar hero 2 was that the rythum seemed off on alot of songs. With the drums it was all rythum, and my inner soul mak came out with the beats lol. It was nice, a bit disorienting having never tried drums of any kind ever, save my hands on a desk or steering wheel thumping to tunes, so it took a bit getting used to the beats but they came, and I had a blast! What I liked, which could also be attributed to demo wear and tear, but I hope is indicative of the final product, was that it required you to play like you meant it. Hitting ht epad with force, not hammering it, but no tapping allowed, which put you in teh drummers seat, so to speak, even more realistically..
All in all, aside from the stinky stoners playing GH3 next to me, it was a great experience my son and I are more excited than ever to play our copy on the 20th, and I hope you all get a chance to check it out...
The entire time I had people walking behind us and standing next to us murmering about that's the game their son, brother, friend was talking about, so the word is definately on the street in Salt Lake City. This is a good thing.
So I grabbed the guitar and the first thing I noticed was the timing in the notes or the force of the required strum was different. After failing out a song I got the hang of it. Either the guitar had alot of abuse or the strum required more follow through than my xplorer at home. My son, being 5 and never playing drums failed us out many times before I switched. The guitar felt good to me, more natural than the xplorer thats for sure.
The drums...aah I fell inlove with this immidiately. My biggest complaint, though it made perfect sence, with guitar hero 2 was that the rythum seemed off on alot of songs. With the drums it was all rythum, and my inner soul mak came out with the beats lol. It was nice, a bit disorienting having never tried drums of any kind ever, save my hands on a desk or steering wheel thumping to tunes, so it took a bit getting used to the beats but they came, and I had a blast! What I liked, which could also be attributed to demo wear and tear, but I hope is indicative of the final product, was that it required you to play like you meant it. Hitting ht epad with force, not hammering it, but no tapping allowed, which put you in teh drummers seat, so to speak, even more realistically..
All in all, aside from the stinky stoners playing GH3 next to me, it was a great experience my son and I are more excited than ever to play our copy on the 20th, and I hope you all get a chance to check it out...
