Long Felt Want for Rock Band

I managed to get myself a copy of Rock Band for the PS3 (that is the one which works in the UK). All I had to do was travel to Seattle, got to Fry's, cart the thing back to my hotel room, unpack it and cram it into my suitcase (it just fitted) and then carry it back.

Easy.

(I left all the empty boxes in the hotel room. I feel a bit bad about this, they might think I've left them a copy of the game to play with, when all they find is a bunch of cardboard and packing.)

Anyhoo, I got the thing home and it is worth the effort. Particularly if you look at how much they are going to charge for the game upon UK release. I've worked my way through Easy mode on drums and I'm now moving on to Normal. It really does feel like drumming and we had a quick go at multi players and the impression of being in a band really is there.

The only slight snag is that the drumpads are a bit noisy when you hit them. So I've bought some felt which I'm going to use to damp the drums. I'm going to get a circle cutter and some foam and hope to make a proper job of damping them down a bit. In the meantime I'm going to use a time-honoured technique for making sure I can't hear the drum pads.

Turn the music up.

Comments

[JDog]

Did you also get the Fender Stratocaster with that If not you should because of the luxury of 10 fret buttons. Also do you have GH 3 for PS3 ? If you do could you try your guitar with it to see if its compatible ?

Do you know when its going to come out in the UK ?

Enjoy !

[Shawn]

Funny link that Channel 10 did for trying to quiet the drums:

http://on10.net/blogs/laura/silence-the-drums/

Good luck on progressing through the levels, seems to me the jump from Medium to Hard is rather dramatic, but, I keep beating away thinking I will figure it out one day, lol.

[Shawn]

@JDog:

I am supposing the hardware should be the same as in the US, but, just a FYI, GH3 guitar works here on Rock Band, but the reverse is not true (Rock Band guitar does not work on GH3).

[Rob]

I got an extra guitar, so I can do proper four player. They are all the Rock Band ones. The PS3 Guitar Hero guitars don't work on PS3 Rock Band because of a silly policy set by Activision.

However, if you have an Xbox 360, that regards all guitars as the same due to a sensible policy set by Microsoft, and so you can use Guitar Hero guitars with Xbox Rock Band. Unfortunately, Xbox 360 Rock Band won't work with UK Xboxes, so I had to get the PS3 version.

Hope that is all clear....

[Shawn]

DOH!! Even though the post reads PS3, mine is a 360, my fault, lol!!!

[JDog]

If you all have Xbox 360's plus Xbox live we should/could play some GH 3 ?

Thanks for the clarification Rob/Shawn.

[Shawn]

Do have live, gamertag is Sm4kt4rd (long story on the name, lol). Feel free to add me, problem is, my daughter also shares the account with me, so sometimes it is me, sometimes it is her, lol.

[JDog]

Ok cool, i'll send an FR !