Rock Band - DLC Done Right

mystery · 2010-03-11T08:25:41.000Z

New York – March 11, 2010 – Multi-platinum selling and Grammy® Award winning group Green Day, along with Harmonix, the leading developer of music-based games, MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), and Reprise / Warner Bros. Records today announced that Green Day: Rock Band™, the full standalone music video game experience that celebrates Green Day’s historic career and genre-defining albums will launch worldwide June 8, 2010, for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and the Wii™ system from Nintendo.

Green Day: Rock Band allows players to step onto the stage and into the shoes of Green Day, the multi-platinum, Grammy® Award-winning band that jump-started the punk-pop revival and has continued to pave the way for American rock music into the 21st century. Taking on the likenesses of Green Day members Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool, players progress through the story and history of Green Day, gaining access into the band’s media vault, where they can unlock more than 100 collectible images, and more than 40 minutes of rare and unreleased video from interviews, outtakes and performances.

Featuring the three-part vocal harmony technology Harmonix introduced with the award-winning The Beatles™: Rock Band™, Green Day: Rock Band gives players access to an incredible setlist of 47 tracks that span the band’s career including “Brain Stew,” “Jaded,” “Hitchin’ a Ride,” “American Idiot,” “Wake Me Up When September Ends” and “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.” All 47 tracks are fully exportable, providing players with the opportunity to play the songs in Rock Band™, Rock Band 2™ and the recently announced Rock Band™3! Green Day: Rock Band™ features an export fee of $9.99 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 system. The export feature is not available for the Wii system. In addition, the six Green Day tracks already available in the Rock Band Music Store as downloadable content can be played in Green Day: Rock Band with added vocal harmonies, unique performance visuals, and exclusive archival material.

Green Day: Rock Band pricing is as follows:

Green Day: Rock Band standalone game for Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 system
US MSRP $59.99

Green Day: Rock Band standalone game for Wii system
US MSRP $49.99

Green Day: Rock Band Plus for Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 system (US/Canada only)
US MSRP $69.99
Includes special packaging, export and six Green Day DLC tracks ($22 total value)

WarrenM · 2010-03-11T08:29:36.000Z

All 47 tracks are fully exportable,

FUCK yes.

Robert_Sharp · 2010-03-11T08:30:12.000Z

I don’t get it. I know they are a big selling band, but they don’t strike me as generational and transcendent enough to justify a standalone game. It does explain why some Green Day songs have been missing from RB2 though.

Oh, and if the songs are exportable, what prevents me from just renting this game from gamefly and snagging all the songs?

ZekeDMS · 2010-03-11T08:32:47.000Z

It’s likely a one time code, same as Lego RB was. So buy it and sell it somewhere else without it for people who don’t care about the code.

Also, woo! I wonder if they’ll give us Rock Band:Foo Fighters someday.

MSUSteve · 2010-03-11T08:34:42.000Z

I’d pay $18 or $20 for the full Dookie album, but man, I couldn’t care less about a standalone Green Day game.

WarrenM · 2010-03-11T08:39:51.000Z

Also, woo! I wonder if they’ll give us Rock Band:Foo Fighters someday.

You’re tapping into my fantasies now. I was playing Rock Band with my wife last night and as I’m scrolling the song list she says, “Do you have enough Foo Fighters yet? Geez.”

NO! NEED MOAR!!1!

AndrewMyers · 2010-03-11T08:42:03.000Z

Give me Rock Band: Muse, goddammit.

BobJustBob · 2010-03-11T08:43:13.000Z

I’ll take Rock Band: Smashing Pumpkins.

Morkilus · 2010-03-11T08:48:45.000Z

theborbes:

Well either they put up all of De-Loused or none at all, or cut out the countless minutes of wankery from Francis the Mute.

Either way, I support putting Mars Volta in, as long as it’s not from an album later than those two.

I’m still bummed I have to put in GH:WT to play Tool and L’Via l’Viaquez. What a fugly game (I got it as part of a bundle to get the guitar controller).

ZekeDMS · 2010-03-11T08:51:31.000Z

I’m with Bob, and against Talisker.

Smashing Pumpkins definitely has a diverse enough catalog that they’d make a great game. Same reason I think Green Day will, especially with Dookie and Nimrod. Muse…okay, I just don’t like Muse, but I also don’t see them as having enough impact yet.

WarrenM · 2010-03-11T09:04:25.000Z

My heart wants Rock Band : Tool, but I know that I would never be able to get the drums above “Normal” difficulty so … no.

sinfony · 2010-03-11T09:08:18.000Z

Plus, all these years in, only 4 Tool albums. Not a whole hell of a lot of material, although I’d really like to see Third Eye or Pushit in one of these games.

Rorschach · 2010-03-11T09:20:30.000Z

Okay are the six Green Day tracks already available get harmonies because there’s new versions of the tracks on the Green Day: RB disc or can I hope against hope that tracks can be “upgraded”? If it’s the latter RB3 will be a pre-order purchase.

Brian_Seiler · 2010-03-11T09:24:27.000Z

I don’t think that the harmonies cut out if you miss one, so all it really should be is a secondary vocal chart that you can opt for at the beginning of the song. If their engine is programmed to read it properly, I don’t think that anything about the actual noises coming out of the speakers have to change.

I could be wrong, though. It’s been a while since Beatles.

Pumpkinhead · 2010-03-11T09:28:39.000Z

sinfony:

Plus, all these years in, only 4 Tool albums. Not a whole hell of a lot of material, although I’d really like to see Third Eye or Pushit in one of these games.

Tool and Mastodon are my two biggest wants in Rock Band. Colony of Birchmen is probably my favorite on disk drum song.

sinfony · 2010-03-11T09:29:19.000Z

More Mastodon would be awesome. Crack the Skye full album plz.

WarrenM · 2010-03-11T09:37:21.000Z

Okay are the six Green Day tracks already available get harmonies because there’s new versions of the tracks on the Green Day: RB disc or can I hope against hope that tracks can be “upgraded”? If it’s the latter RB3 will be a pre-order purchase.

From the press release:

In addition, the six Green Day tracks already available in the Rock Band Music Store as downloadable content can be played in Green Day: Rock Band with added vocal harmonies, unique performance visuals, and exclusive archival material.

mystery · 2010-03-11T09:38:05.000Z

sinfony:

Plus, all these years in, only 4 Tool albums. Not a whole hell of a lot of material, although I’d really like to see Third Eye or Pushit in one of these games.

If you add in A Perfect Circle and Puscifer, you’ve got another 4 albums on top of that, though.

Midnight_Son · 2010-03-11T09:44:18.000Z

There about 2 or 3 Green Day tracks I’d like in RB. Sure as hell don’t want 47!

One of the following does not belong:

Beatles: Rock Band
Rolling Stones: Rock Band
Green Day: Rock Band
Led Zeppelin: Rock Band

sinfony · 2010-03-11T09:46:36.000Z

Yeah, but those projects sound very little like Tool and involve only the most replaceable member of the band (at least, for Rock Band purposes).