Brian White

Rock Band has, literally overnight, become the newest glue that ties together even the most videogame-resistant in my group of friends. We played Friday night well into the wee hours and met up on Saturday and everyone couldn’t stop talking about how much fun was had. The last people you’d expect had the strongest grips on the controllers and the drum sticks.

The beauty really is in the mixed difficulty levels. Easy bass mixed with Hard drums, and people crying to start the song over because dammit, they’re going to nail it this time!

Sony has to get on their horse and get orders of magnitude more songs into the system for those who aren’t fans of Rush, the Police, or Black Sabbath (which we happen to be). It also needs a smarter system of payment and download to deal with the 2am song purchases in which, I’m guessing, alcohol consumption will be a factor in a large percentage. It’s pretty cumbersome right now but could be better integrated with the game.

Get to work, Sony! The dollar bills were being thrown around faster than a West Baltimore street craps game! “Here’s two bucks for My Sharona, buy it now!” We need more songs, like yesterday! There’s a lot of people ready to fork over those bills for all manner of shredditude.

Wow, now this is some outside-the-box gameplay design! I’m not going to comment but instead will just link to this gameplay video of Endochrome, an apparent upcoming game title.

This reminds me of Half-Life 2 Portal.