This really is an incredibly cool idea. I'd love to try it out but for me a bit of the charm's been lost since I started learning guitar. I can't deny though that this looks like an insane amount of fun. Presumably you'd be able to select which instruments you wanted to use so that someone wouldn't always have to sing or whatever.

Wow.

No need to resort to that, I am pretty sure single player mode where you just play one of the instruments, like banging on the drums or guitar like usual, will be available and no doubt a blast. I am not sure how good the internet playing will be on a game where precision is key.

Lol black guy playing the bass in the video.

I made a post like a year ago wishing that Guitar Hero expanded to allow drums, singer, bass, etc.

This is so awesome. If they have any Journey or Bon Jovi in this thing, I will purchase and form a 2+2 band.

LOL. I'm 30 and happy to see that I am the 2nd oldest person playing this series instead of the oldest as previously hypothesized.

I hope it is possible to do two instruments from the same unit (bass+vocals for example) while playing over the 'net. I have two friends in different parts of the country who are into this series and we'd have a blast if we could do all 4 parts with just the three of us.

$200 ?!?!?!? That's it?!?!?!?!

OMG SIGN ME UP -- This will be so sick.

I'm 36, so you're only the 3rd oldest. But some older people do play it.

The other day, I was in Best Buy and some guy who had to be in his 40s was playing the demo version of GH2. And he obviously plays it regularly, because he 5-starred Sweet Child on Expert.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--The Battle of the Bands is officially on. Yesterday, the Neversoft-developed Guitar Hero III revealed the python-enthused former Guns N' Roses fretter Slash would rock on a variety of unlockable guitars. Today, original Guitar Hero developer Harmonix fired back with the announcement that it will offer not just hit singles for gamers to play, but entire full-length albums from multiple labels.

The first band to receive the digital conversion will be classic British rockers The Who. Gamers will be able to form a virtual cover band playing guitar, hitting the drums, and singing along to the band's widely acclaimed 1971 album Who's Next. The album should hit soon after the game's release this fall, with new content planned on a weekly basis. For those a bit rusty on their classic rock, the full track list for the album follows:

The Who's Who's Next
: "Baba O' Riley"
"Bargain"
"Love Ain't for Keepin'"
"My Wife (Entwistle)"
"The Song Is Over"
"Getting in Tune"
"Going Movile"
"Behind Blue Eyes"
"Won't Get Fooled Again"


Harmonix also announced the first 15 songs from the retail edition of Rock Band. A glance at the list reveals a wide array of rock subgenres and decades represented, from David Bowie and Black Sabbath to The Hives and The Strokes. The first 15 songs from Rock Band are listed below, with the new songs in bold:

Artist - Song (asterisk indicates a cover version of a song): The Who - "Won't Get Fooled Again"
Mountain - "Mississippi Queen"*
David Bowie - "Suffragette City"
Black Sabbath - "Paranoid"*
Blue Oyster Cult - "Don't Fear the Reaper"
The Ramones - "Rockaway Beach”
Rush - "Tom Sawyer"*
Bon Jovi - "Wanted Dead or Alive"
Nirvana - "In Bloom"
Stone Temple Pilots - "Vasoline"
Weezer - "Say It Ain't So"
Foo Fighters - “Learn to Fly”
The Hives - "Main Offender"
The Strokes - "Reptilia"
Queens of the Stone Age - "Go With the Flow"


ZOMG!!

Holy eff. Entire albums? That is completely awesome.

I was thinking about this the other day. How cool will it be to have 4 dudes playing "Won't Get Fooled Again" next to each other? When the singer hits the "YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH" part, the console might explode.

Jesus this game is going to ship with like 500 songs.

The better business decision will be to ship with 10-15, and sell the rest via download.

I'm guessing this is why Metallica/etc. are jumping on board. The online download sale aspect will be HUGE $$$.

If this costs $200 out of the box, I'm guessing that they anticipate people spending at least that much more on downloads for their favorite bands.

Also, I anticipate a future "80's Edition" with new synthesizer attachment.

Thats how I read that news brief. It doesn't sound like The Who album will ship with the game. Instead it looks like it will be DLable content. Also it said after that they plan to release new content on a weekly basis.

So Does Don't Fear the Reaper include Virtual Cowbell attachment?

From what I understand, the microphone acts as a cowbell or tambourine when needed.

I would like to know how the drum peripheral handles cymbals and/or high-hats, though.

I was wondering about this as well. I don't know anything about drums, but that seemed to be a piece that was missing.

Sam, please let me know when you hold the auditions for the OOT band!!

From the vid I saw (the Welcome to the Jungle one), it looked like cymbals/high hat are just the regular drum pads. Just as the guitar frets don't correspond to specific notes the drum pads don't correspond to specific drum sounds. The pedal will probably always be the bass drum but it looks like the other pads can be cymbals, toms, or whatever is needed at any given time. I don't think this will be a problem in terms of the feel of the drum kit so long as the high hat isn't consistently on the far right or something ******ed like that.

http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/07/11/...s-and-metallic/

Mostly known info...but confirming that Enter Sandman will be in the shipped game, with more Metallica to follow via DLC. I can't wait for this game!

THIS IS GOING TO BE SO [censored] SICK I CAN'T CONTAIN MYSELF, once they get the downloadable content going the number of bands and songs will shoot through the roof; people will be able to request songs and get them and hopefully the people who do custom songs will be able to provide the same service.

Honestly I haven't been this excited about pretty much anything since Christmas when I was seven.

nolan - If you think you are going to join my band as the drummer who knows nothing about drumming, you will probably fit in well.

Also, I'm not buying this thing unless there is some Journey in it.

yeah, dog! i wanna role-play as randy jackson on the bass..

Please please please have the full albums of Appetite for Destruction and Rage Against the Machine available. I'd probably pay way too much for these if they made me.