To some surprise, late last year Harmonix and MTV showed some of its 2010 hand by revealing Green Day: Rock Band. But did you think that was all they had up their sleeves?
In an interview with Newsarama, MTV Games Senior Vice President Paul DeGooyer says "It's of course not going to be our only game this year." Shocking, I know -- Harmonix and MTV Games have something else up their sleeves for the remainder of 2010. A full-fledged Rock Band update? Perhaps something with a "3" in its title?
On the subject of Green Day: Rock Band, DeGooyer confirms that the game will support vocal harmonies, a feature added to the series in last year's The Beatles: Rock Band. A "couple of little things" will also be added in terms of new features, but DeGooyer doesn't go into any detail. Considering Green Day is a three-piece band, with one of the members simultaneously singing and playing guitar on most its tracks, perhaps that's a hint. Or perhaps not.
Green Day: Rock Band is scheduled for a vague 2010 release; the tracks will be exportable from the game disc.
New GREEN DAY: ROCK BAND Details, ROCK BAND 3 Hints, More [Newsarama]
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6:00 PM on 01.20.2010
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In music video game time anyway
The mystrious Pearl Jame project has been in development for 2 years. Whatchu talkin' about?
Good music =/= fun Rock Band chart.
Mind you, I like Green Day even less, at least they didn't ruin Leeds Festival for me.
Im all for more in these games, and Beatles Rock Band was a nice tip of the hat, but I like the DLC side of things. Get what tracks when I want.
I think a flae post would be saying you like Green Day. Seriously in 90% of social cricles it's a social suicide.
Kid you not I professed my enjoyment of 21st Century Breakdown in Peace Studies class one day and the entire room fell quiet. It was the most awkward moment of my recent and short life.
*cough*
Beatles was okay since they are somewhat legendary, c'mon they're the Beatles. But, I think one band game is enough, any others is just being tasteless.
Also, Jimi Hendrix Rock Band plz
Gotta say, I can't see songs from their early albums being hard to ace...3 chords, lather, rinse, repeat.
Sooner or later people will get sick of this shit.
Unless it's a football game or a game where Italians stomp on strange creatures heads, people will get tired of it.
Oh, is there a Green Day game? Oh wait I don't care
Amidoinitrite?
inb4Rammstein
Yeah, I'll admit it. I like Green Day. I find a lot of their songs enjoyable to listen to and enjoy every album. Greatest band ever? Not really. But they continue to sell albums to SOMEBODY, and that's probably all you Green Day bashers. Oh noes, das band be popular, must hate them now. Grow the hell up. once upon a time, you listened to them or knew someone who listened to them. A lot of their earlier stuff is also fairly intro Guitar playing stuff akin to Smoke on the Water. And they managed to do one thing pretty successfully... sell music. To top all of this off, they have a huge legion of fans with a very large catalog of music spanning many years of evolution.
I know I'm going to buy this, and frankly I swear to christ I'm going to bitchslap the first opinionated fuck in a Hendrix T-shirt reeking of resin who gives me shit as I walk out the Gamestop.
@IV Backstab MC
I hope you're kidding. Here is the trick to metal... play. Play really, really fast. Doesn't matter what you play, just play. Many of metals lead guitarists readily admit they don't know what they played after pulling out a really "complicated" solo which, 99% of the time, is Aelonic (or Pentatonic) scale moved up and down the neck. Aelonic Scale, one of the first scales you learn. Most of it has no rhtyhm and no reason for being fast other than appeasing a bunch of drunken idiots needing an "arm swing" anthem for their mosh pits. SOME metal is good, most is rubbish. Remember kids, just because it's fast, doesn't make it good. Otherwise this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSfTXzRdRM8
...would be good.
Also: 3 Inches of Blood: Rock Band.
Although, with their music's theme, they'd be a better fit for an ActiBlizzard published title. *snicker*
@Carl Sagan: that would be the shit!
That would be the most epic music game. Like EVAR >:3 I love the Arctic Monkeys.
But I do hope its Rock Band 3. The only thing I find disappointing about Harmonix so far is that...why would you go to Green Day after The Beatles? Doesn't make sense to me I mean heck why doesn't Nirvana get their own game? ( well that's kind of too late now since Rock Band has mostly all of their hits as DLC now )I hope it's not another lone band title. Activision really needs to stop with Guitar Hero: 'this and that'. And I hope Harmonix isn't doing the same. I know their smarter then that. I think =/ not to sure after the Green Day thing actually now that I think about it.
@Electro Lemon
That pic made me lulz and my mom gave me a wtf look then I lulz again.
They have some catching up to do but this far the score for 2010 is a follows:
4 Rock Bands in the pipeline.
1 Guitar Hero.
If you don't like it, DON"T BUY IT.
Also, everyone will get their Rock Band:(classic rock band)/(metal band) eventually.
The blitzkrieg is over. We can all breath easy. Of course if you're asking for RB to be the new Gran Tourismo you'll never be satisfied.
@Xzyliac
I honestly believe that the music/peripheral genre will see its last year by 2011. Especially if what you're saying is true, with Rockband releasing 4 possible games, the market for these games would not only over-saturate, but also fall on itself. It would be a shame but not all would be lost. I sure as hell know I'll still be rockin' it for as long as I can.
@Sheppy
I don't know what Metal you've been listening to or watching, but most of that is wrong. Yes, most bands play fast, but the music is a lot more than Aelonic scales and "lack of rhythm". If you don't like it, fine, but don't make your argument with blanketing generalizations.
It won't die. It'll shrink. Like everything. It's called a fad people. The fad'll die the genre won't.
The genre was never dead to begin with. Before Guitar Hero only the hardcore were around and when the fad is dead we will remain.
Also I should note of those 4 games only 3 are console releases. Not too bad I would say.
Now that I think about it Green Day does make sense. First of all there a few 100-500+ threads back on the RB forum begging for good Green Day. This has only been matched by LedZep, Tool, Radiohead, and The Beatles. We've got The Beatles, we'll never get the other three, might as well do Green Day. TB:RB was one of the best selling games last year. People seem to forget that. Fiscally RB is still doing fine.
PR wise they might wanna chill out.