Idea: Rock Band: iPhone/iTouch Edition

[timmay9]

If it would be possible, it would be awesome to have a 50-song game on the iPhone/touch. While multiplayer couldn't be done, you could use the iPhone mic to do vocals, and tap the screen for guitar/bass/drums. You could sell it for $14.99. All these songs could also be later released as DLC for consoles. Here's a proposed tracklist, with 10 songs from every decade:

1960's
Astronomy Domine by Pink Floyd (Psychedelic Rock 1967)
For Your Love by The Yardbirds (Rock 1965)
I'm Free by The Who (Classic Rock 1969)
I Wanna Be Your Dog by The Stooges (Classic Rock 1969)
Piece of My Heart by Big Brother and the Holding Company (Rock 1968)
The Pusher by Steppenwolf (Classic Rock 1968)
Somebody to Love by Jefferson Airplane (Rock 1967)
Street Fighting Man by The Rolling Stones (Classic Rock 1968)
White Room by Cream (Classic Rock 1968)
You're Gonna Miss Me by The 13th Floor Elevators (Psychedelic Rock 1966)

1970's
Feels Like the First Time by Foreigner (Classic Rock 1977)
Liar by Sex Pistols (Punk 1977)
Lyin' Eyes by The Eagles (Classic Rock 1975)
No Time by The Guess Who (Classic Rock 1970)
Stone Cold Crazy by Queen (Metal 1974)
Tommy Gun by The Clash (Punk 1978
Walk Away by James Gang (Classic Rock 1971)
What I Like About You by The Romantics (Pop/Rock 1979)
Wishing Well by Free (Classic Rock 1972)
You Ain't See Nothing Yet by Bachman-Turner Overdrive (Classic Rock 1974)

1980's
Bark at the Moon by Ozzy Osbourne (Metal 1983)
Crossfire by Stevie Ray Vaughan (Blues 1989)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears (Rock 1985)
Don't Talk to Strangers by Dio (Metal 1983)
Modern Love Is Automatic by A Flock of Seagulls (New Wave 1982)
Money for Nothing by Dire Straits (Classic Rock 1985)
One by Metallica (Metal 1988)
The One Thing by INXS (New Wave 1982)
The Warrior by Scandal (Pop/Rock 1984)

1990's
Basket Case by Green Day (Alternative 1994)
Civil War by Guns N' Roses (Rock 1991)
Fallible by Blues Traveler (Rock 1994)
Just by Radiohead (Alternative 1995)
Know Your Enemy by Rage Against the Machine (Metal 1992)
One by U2 (Alternative 1991)
No Excuses by Alice in Chains (Alternative 1994)
Rusty Cage by Soundgarden (Alternative 1991)
Scentless Apprentice by Nirvana (Alternative 1993)
Tornado of Souls by Megadeth (Metal 1990)

2000's
Banquet by Bloc Party (Alternative 2005)
Can't Stop by Red Hot Chili Peppers (Alternative 2003)
I Believe in a Thing Called Love by The Darkness (Glam 2004)
In My Place by Coldplay (Alternative 2002)
Last Nite by The Strokes (Rock 2001)
The Pretender by Foo Fighters (Alternative 2007)
Somebody Told Me by The Killers (Alternative 2004)
Stockholm Syndrome (HAARP Version) by Muse (Alternative 2008)
Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand (Alternative 2004)
This Love by Maroon 5 (Pop/Rock 2004)

[thedetectives]

Would love that, except for I don't have a iPhone/Touch.

[nashphx13z]

That's great stuff! Much better than the current "Guitar Rock Tour" that is available in the App Store. Wow! You really got me thinking. I would LOVE if HMX did something for the iPhone/iPod touch. Great idea, dude! Kudos.

[jayou521]

I would like a lot of those songs to be in Rock Band first.
Not to mention not everyone, including me, has an iPhone/iTouch~

It wouldn't work putting this game out first and then making the songs DLC later because then we would basically know what's coming out for .... I'm not sure, but at least a few months. However long it takes for them to put out 50 songs.

It would be a much better idea to take songs already in Rock Band and release them for this iPhone game.

[clashcityrocker10]

Well, Harmonix did release Phase, which does allow you to play the music on your iPod, but the idea you have here sounds much cooler, and you have a great setlist.

[Fizzeler]

I like the idea and while I do not have an iPod Touch/iPhone I would love the songs as DLC plus it would allow Harmonix to compete with GH On Tour for the DS

[Fezz-Head]

$15? Wow, that's cheap.

[T-Rav]

Not a bad idea, though I think it wouldn't be so simple...
I only see 3 major problems with the idea though;
For the space issue, I'm estimating at least about 2-4gb.
Right now, itouch can hold 32gb which wouldn't be a major problem.
However, iPhones can only hold up to 16gb right now. I can predict a major lag with this application...

Branching off the space issue would come the time needed- it'd be quite a mofo downloading such a game if my calculations for how much space it takes up is correct.

Then comes the singing issue. While it would be efficient to be able to use the mic... think of the embarrassment of playing it out in public (assuming you have a terrible voice), let alone attempting to reading the lyrics (unless it were to use the speaker option, in which case would be terrible sensitivity)


That's just my 2 cents though.

[classicrockdude]

Is stone cold crazy metal?

[General Lein979]

I don't see why they can't just make phase available for the phone/ touch.