LEGO Rock Band (Xbox 360)

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Release Date: 27/11/2009

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Summary

Developer:: Harmonix
Publisher:: Warner Brothers

Lego Rock Band merges two of the most popular videogame franchises to deliver a unique family-friendly music experience that will take tweens, teens, families and gamers of all ages on a wild journey to rock stardom in order to “Build a Band and Rock the Universe.” Combining the authentic multiplayer music experience of Rock Band with the accessibility, customization and humor of Lego games, Lego Rock Band allows players to create their own unique rock star style and customize their own avatars, band members, roadies, and managers. As players successfully complete songs and rock challenges, they can collect Lego studs, unlock additional content and build amazing vehicles, which can take their band from local gigs at rock clubs to epic stadium shows and even fantasy settings on Earth and beyond.

Lego Rock Band Features:

Rock along to current hits and classic favorites that the whole family will enjoy including Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back”, Foo Fighters’ “Breakout”, Vampire Weekend’s “A-Punk”, Blur’s “Song 2”, Carl Douglas’ “Kung Fu Fighting”, Europe’s “The Final Countdown”, Good Charlotte’s “Boys and Girls” and Pink’s “So What”, just to name a few!
Use the LEGO character customizer to create and personalize your band, instruments and entourage.
Pull off killer riffs in LEGO themed Rock Power challenges to perform amazing feats such as destroying a giant robot, summoning a storm or demolishing a skyscraper.
Build fame LEGO style by completing songs to collect LEGO elements - build cooler vehicles, progress to new venues and unlock new characters and instruments.
Express yourself with a personalized LEGO Rock Den that can be accessorized and decorated to perfectly suit your rock style.
All-access gaming! Start off on Easy, work your way up to Expert or try out the newly introduced Super Easy setting created especially for budding rock stars!
Rock out using Rock Band instruments, as well as other music game controllers.

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LEGO Rock Band Review; Author: Mark Scott

LEGO Rock Band Review ; Author: Mark Scott

Bricking it

To all intents and purposes, LEGO Rock Band the same as Rock Band 2 - except LEGO-themed. The scrolling notes have little LEGO studs on them and stylish rockers have been replaced with androgynous LEGO-people. The style, as with all the Lego games thus far, is adorable - so adorable you wish you could import all your Rock Band 2 tracks and adopt it as the default option. Who wants grainy camera effects and earnest-looking frontmen with pink-and-black emovers when you can have LEGO Brian May?

Besides the presentation, a few things have been tweaked to make classic Rock Band gameplay friendlier for kids. It's impossible to fail a song, for example - you just get fewer LEGO studs as a reward for completing it. There's a new Super Easy difficulty setting too, where you just have to strum, hit a drum pad or yell "Ghostbusters!" into a microphone for three minutes without worrying about actual notes or pitch.

"There's an overwhelming amout of stuff to unlock..."

Sing when you're winning

Plus there's an automatic setting for the drum's bass pedal to help out tiny musicians who are too short to hit anything but the pads. Lastly, you can play shortened versions of songs in Free Play instead of the full four-minute versions, but the editing is rather poor.

The tour has been renamed Story mode and is now punctuated by LEGO cut-scenes and special gigs called Rock Challenges, which have you fighting octopuses or banishing ghosts or tearing a house down with the power of rock. The cutscenes would be worth a playthrough all on their own but there's a lot of repetition. Because LEGO Rock Band only has 45 songs, you end up playing them over and over.

The Rock Den is the hub from which you can buy new vehicles, access new gigs, watch cut-scenes, customise your band or hire new tour staff in Story mode. You can decorate it with items that you earn throughout the tour.

Famous faces

Guest appearances from LEGO versions of Blur, Queen, Bowie and Iggy Pop are absolutely brilliant, though their songs cannot be played as part of a setlist because they insist on their own custom venues. You can't use them for any songs other than their own, either, or recruit LEGO Brian May and LEGO Damon Albarn to your rock supergroup.

"Cute, funny and genuinely appealing"

Fun for all the family

The tracklist itself has as much stuff for parents to enjoy as for kids. It's an unusual selection - Elton John next to KoRn, KT Tunstall a few strums away from Bryan Adams, P!nk and Vampire Weekend in the same setlist ? but it's undeniably varied. You can import the tracks into Rock Band 2 for 800 Microsoft points, but it doesn't work the other way around. You can, however, play download tracks from the store or play ones you've already bought as long as they pass a family-friendly filter. Unfortunately, though, there's no online mode.

LEGO Rock Band's relatively small selection of songs means it's not as good value as other games of its type. However the presentation is cute, funny and genuinely appealing, especially if you've got kids.

Besides, there are some people for whom the inclusion of the Ghostbusters theme tune alone is enough to warrant a purchase.