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LEGO Rock Band Confirmed

Posted by Soulskill on from the how-does-that-even-work dept.

SailorSpork writes to tell us that the rumored LEGO Rock Band has been confirmed, and it's set to be released later this year. The game is being developed for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and DS. The press release lists the first five songs selected for the game, and says players will "work their way through local venues, stadiums and fantasy locations on Earth and beyond, that mimic the imaginative settings that the LEGO world offers. Also continuing the LEGO 'build-and-play' gaming experience, players will be able to create their own LEGO Rock Band style as they customize their minifigure avatars, band and entourage, including roadies, managers and crew." A new page on the Xbox website provides more (slightly odd) details: "Play killer riffs to destroy a giant robot, summon a storm, and demolish a skyscraper using the power of rock!"

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  1. Like they say. by Overkill+Nbuta · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you build it they will come. And with lego its even easier.

    1. Re:Like they say. by interkin3tic · · Score: 4, Funny

      We built this city on rock and roll. Using legos.

    2. Re:Like they say. by geekoid · · Score: 3, Funny

      We built the city on six by twos.

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    3. Re:Like they say. by Shrike82 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Of course there are "legos" - they're what your feetos are attached to.

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  2. This is lame but... by cortesoft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now, if you could build the controller out of a special LEGO set.........

    1. Re:This is lame but... by DurendalMac · · Score: 2

      Yeah, that way you could smash the guitar at the end of every performance and not have to worry!

  3. Seriously? by neuromanc3r · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Rock Band and Guitar Hero always struck me as rather strange games (even though they're really fun), but the idea of Lego Rock Band just made me check if it's april fool's again...

    1. Re:Seriously? by interkin3tic · · Score: 2, Interesting

      If you think "guitar hero" is strange, in 2006 activision trademarked "Guitar Villain" and "Drum Villain."

      http://www.gamespot.com/news/6164293.html

      They don't seem to have ever done anything with those names, maybe they were considering it a while and decided not to or maybe they just didn't want anyone coming up with a cheap knockoff or a ripoff that was better than their product. Which is sad, I really am curious as to what "Guitar Villain" would be. Maybe it would have been grunge (killing hair metal), maybe it would have been all awesomely bad songs like "Final countdown" or "We built this city", who knows. But I'd bet if there was any product they were thinking of developing it was just the multiplayer mode from guitar hero 3 expanded, in which you could obtain powerups to mess with the other person. Which may not have been fun, but it makes the most sense for that name that I could think of.

      Anyway, I like the title "Guitar Villain" better and thought that was interesting. Lego Guitar Villain not so much though.

  4. gotta have by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is one that's gotta have the White Stripes' "Fell in Love with a Girl" as one of the songs. It just wouldn't be right if it didn't.

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  5. I am waiting for Rock Band Rock Band by DanWS6 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You'll be given some kind of controller where you control a person who is playing rock band.

  6. Re:are you fucking joking!? by FrankSchwab · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You don't have 7 year old children, do you?

    Neither Rock Band or Guitar Hero are very age appropriate for kids. Not only are the lyrics and imagery questionable, even the "Easy" (for GH) level is pretty darned hard for them, and the "Beginner" (or whatever they call it) level is so dumbed down that even they think its just a joke.

    On the other hand, it would be a great family game if they could keep up.

    If they present present less sex and drugs oriented visuals, and a younger bias to the difficulty level, it opens the game up to a whole new audience.

    If you prefer as an on-screen avatar a half-dressed, skanky chick with needle tracks up her arm, feel free to not buy this game.

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  7. Re:Why? by rsmith-mac · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why?

    The age rating

    Rock Band, Guitar Hero, etc are all modeled off of stereotypical rocker behavior - sex, drugs, and rock & roll - in both game design and music choice. That's fine for those games, MTV and Blactivision are shooting for a semi-authentic experience and they get the age rating they're planning on: T(een). But you can't really peddle T games as family games, because they're not. People (at least in the conservative segment) don't particularly want their kids playing T games, or want to be playing T games with them. Rock Band/Guitar Hero don't quite fit in the casual gamer/family mold that the Wii has managed build so well.

    So they want to push Rock Band as a truly family friendly game, and that means paring down the objectionable material to get the rating down to an E(veryone). If they just release Rock Band 3 like this, they're going to drive off the core gamers that they're shooting for in their other titles. They don't want to end up with a Core Gamer XOR Families situation, they want both.

    So you get an offshoot, something that's similar in gameplay but different enough in style that it's clearly not going to encroach on the mainline Rock Band audience while still being a Rock Band game. LEGO games have proven to be extremely popular with the family friendly segment (there's nothing objectionable about about LEGO), so they have great band name recognition. Parents will immediately recognize a LEGO title as being family friendly, and at this point Rock Band is popular enough that most people recognize it too.

    So why LEGO Rock Band? Because it's going to be the Rock Band title they can slap an E on, sell to families, and sell extremely well due to the branding.

  8. Re:"Luke, I am your rock god father" by niteice · · Score: 5, Informative

    That would actually be Chewy on drums, Leia on vocals, Vader on bass, Han and Luke on guitar, and R2/C3PO on synth.

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  9. Re:Why? by Toonol · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're pretty much spot on, but I'd like to add that all the Lego games have been pretty good. If you dismiss them as kid's games, you're missing out.

  10. Re:are you fucking joking!? by ucblockhead · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Visuals? There's no drug references in either game and an exposed belly button is only "inappropriate" if you're a prude.

    I let my five year old watch all the time. (Though it is true I sometimes have to make sure to cough at the appropriate time during some of the songs.)

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  11. Next up in the franchise... by EricTheGreen · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lego Duke Nukem