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So You Wanna Be a Rock Band?
Harmonix's rock band takes top honors for 2007 Game Critics Awards
As any hardscrabble touring rock band will tell you, every 45 minutes of onstage glory is accompanied by hours and hours of smelly van rides, laborious equipment moving, and not-so-glamorous feasting at Arby's.
Thanks to the folks at video-game developers Harmonix, aspiring rock gods can now skip all the blood, sweat, and tears and get straight to the caviar and limousines. The PlayStation3/Xbox 360 game Rock Band, which is set for release during the 2007 holiday shopping season, won "Best in Show" this week from the 2007 Game Critics Awards on the heels of its domination at the E3 Media and Business Summit in Santa Monica mid-July. The judges, a panel of 36 journalists from leading North American videogame media outlets, make their choices based on how games handle and perform at E3.
Rock Band, a variation on the popular Harmonix Guitar Hero game, allows four players to simultaneously perform on guitar, bass, drums, and vocals in front of a screaming virtual audience. Rock Band also features actual master tracks from bands like the Who, Nirvana, and Queens of the Stone Age and can be played interactively with players down the street and around the world.
Video-game review site Gaming Target reports that the accessory "instruments" used in the game are superior to the guitars that accompanied Guitar Hero. However, they do not have any advice on how to handle the inevitable "creative differences." Fortunately for everyone, it's difficult to throw a drink in your guitar player's face when he/she lives in Denmark.
Thanks to the folks at video-game developers Harmonix, aspiring rock gods can now skip all the blood, sweat, and tears and get straight to the caviar and limousines. The PlayStation3/Xbox 360 game Rock Band, which is set for release during the 2007 holiday shopping season, won "Best in Show" this week from the 2007 Game Critics Awards on the heels of its domination at the E3 Media and Business Summit in Santa Monica mid-July. The judges, a panel of 36 journalists from leading North American videogame media outlets, make their choices based on how games handle and perform at E3.
Rock Band, a variation on the popular Harmonix Guitar Hero game, allows four players to simultaneously perform on guitar, bass, drums, and vocals in front of a screaming virtual audience. Rock Band also features actual master tracks from bands like the Who, Nirvana, and Queens of the Stone Age and can be played interactively with players down the street and around the world.
Video-game review site Gaming Target reports that the accessory "instruments" used in the game are superior to the guitars that accompanied Guitar Hero. However, they do not have any advice on how to handle the inevitable "creative differences." Fortunately for everyone, it's difficult to throw a drink in your guitar player's face when he/she lives in Denmark.
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