![]() ![]() ![]() It sounds an easy gig, but ensuring that songs are accessible, fun to play and give a sense of satisfaction –that you feel you are playing the song- is a real art. Harmonix remains the master of mapping note charts to the music. Vocalists, meanwhile, warble away trying to match a pitch line. For the uninitiated, coloured gems come flying down a highway on screen and you have to match them on a plastic guitar or by clattering toy drum pads. And, in fairness, it is still enormously good fun. I almost wonder if Harmonix would have done well to start Rock Band 4 as a free download, allowing you to build your library to your choosing.īut this is a game in thrall to the familiar. If you’re starting anew, then you face a potentially expensive trek through the store with songs at £1.69 a pop. If you’ve been here before, you’re ready to go. But these games only truly come to life with a bulging track list stuffed with your favourites. Rock Band 4’s is suitably varied, ranging from poppy alternative to classic hair metal, and always fun to play. When starting a music game from scratch, you are always at the mercy of the song choice that comes on the disc. ![]() You should not underestimate what a difference this backwards compatibility makes, particularly if you already have a song cache to download. There are some gaps, given music’s capricious licensing tangle, but it’s hard to complain about the range. As well as having access to Rock Band’s back catalogue of over 2000 tracks. But as long as you’re operating in the same console family (going from Xbox 360 to Xbox One, or PS3 to PS4), you can use your old instruments and re-download (most) songs you have already bought. There is a spiffy new Fender Stratocaster guitar and drum set but. Unlike Guitar Hero Live’s reach for reinvention, Rock Band is a returning.Īnd if that’s what you are after, then it does the business. This is what those in the biz like to call a ‘legacy’ product, providing a platform for you to revisit the plastic instrument parties you use to have when the genre was making waves in the mid-2000s. The idea that Rock Band 4 was going to be more Rock Band was always the aim. ![]()
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