Green Day: Rock Band

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MASTER CHIEF PETTY OFFICER JOHN SPARTAN -117 — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:37:00 GMT

You can find this if you are on the band join menu. To enable it press the back button which is next to the select button (The Band Join menu is the one where there is 4 intruments: drum, guitar, vocals, and guitar 2 (or bass) and also says "Join" for each instrument

Blog Post: Another on?

Iason conyers — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:34:00 GMT

Music games, once the trend then, now a echo in the past. Music games used to be fun, now it's getting to be too much. Buying these games must hurt the consumers' pocket. I don't know why they can't stick with the DLC's. That is all.

Blog Post: Its enough already.

xZach — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:21:00 GMT

This series of games have been played out WAY too many times. In my opinion this game is just another way for Green Day to make some extra cash, which is dissapointing to know that this is what Rockband has come to. How much more do they really expect to do with this game? This is a perfect time to say, its enough already.

Blog Post: OLD!!

Warthog911 — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:22:00 GMT

With no disrespect to Green Day, these games are so old.. They all play the same way with slightly better gutairs, why not make this DLC? I dont know but between Gutair Hero, and Rock Band Ive had it this will be the last one I ever play...

Blog Post: Green Day: Rock Band Review

Mista Brightside — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:12:00 GMT

This is really very simple: If you are a fan of Green Day's newer material (i.e. "American Idiot" and "21st Century Breakdown" albums) get this game. There are some excellent tracks from older Green Day stuff you might find you like, but there's not enough of them to hold the attention of of pre-American Idiot Green Day fans. Everything works as you'd expect, with smooth presentation and animations, and the inclusion of vocal harmonies are a nice idea carried over from The Beatles: Rock Band. There are a ton of pics and interview unlockables, but why you'd look at any of them more than once is beyond me. I mainly play guitar, and as someone who just made the switch to the Expert difficulty level a couple of months ago, almost all the songs hit that sweet spot of really fun, but just challenging enough. The reason I'm giving this a 7.5 is because of it's limited appeal. If you just really don't like Green Day, I have no idea why you'd even be reading this, so it goes without saying this game isn't for you. If you're on the fence about it, I would just borrow it from a friend, rent it, or wait several months for a price drop. But, if you're a mega-fan who, like me, enjoys ALL of Green Day's material, this is a no brainer.

Blog Post: Green Day: Rock Band Fails to Impress

Matt Helgeson — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:38:00 GMT

Harmonix’s follow-up to The Beatles: Rock Band is another single-band title, this time featuring the long-running Bay Area pop punks Green Day. The choice makes sense. Green Day has a cross-generational appeal and has maintained a high level of popularity for going on 20 years now. It’s great from a marketing perspective – a younger skewing, yet still classic-rock friendly band that has enough well-known material to fill a disc. Harmonix worked hard to deliver a full Green Day experience – the sheer amount of unlockable video footage, old photos, and Green Day memorabilia is amazing; it’s a new standard for single-artist music games.[Excerpt]

That said, I’m not sure I’m on board. For me, this is the least compelling Rock Band game to date. While I enjoy Green Day, there’s a difference between a good song and a good Rock Band song. A great many amazing tunes just aren’t that fun to play. Green Day’s stock in trade is power chords, delivered in clipped, repetitive eighth and sixteenth notes. Billie Joe might be a great frontman, but he’s no master guitarist. The bass and drum tracks are more interesting than guitar, but playing this many Green Day songs in a row gets boring. To be honest, I felt some of the same things about The Beatles: Rock Band, but the breadth, depth, and quality of the Beatles’ songwriting gave me fascinating musical touches to notice and focus on. Here, the repetitiveness of the material is a slog. This is especially true of the first tier of songs, which are pulled entirely from the classic Dookie, a fondly remembered but musically one-dimensional album. You’ll notice the band members using the same strumming phrasing or rhythmic tricks over and over again – or stealing them outright, like when “Warning” lifts the riff from “Picture Book” by the Kinks.

The game hits its peak in the second tier of songs, performed at the Milton Keynes arena. Here you’ll play some well-chosen tracks off the band’s middle period albums as well as the entirety of the blockbuster American Idiot. The tunes are more diverse, especially some of the epic song-suites off of American Idiot like “Jesus of Suburbia,” which is the best song in the game, throwing new parts and melodies at you on a minute-to-minute basis. The final tier consists of the less satisfying 20th Century Breakdown album, which adds a new layer of pomp and (thankfully) more complex studio-musician lead playing. As a quick aside, I’m still boggled by the decision to include the a capella “Song of the Century” on the tracklist – couldn’t this spot have gone to a more worthy full-band song?

If, like me, you’ve cooled on the music genre in recent months, I don’t think Green Day is the band to reignite your love affair with Rock Band. In the future, maybe Harmonix could attempt a single band title based around a more complex – and more fun to play – band like Muse or Rush. This title has all the craft that Harmonix usually puts into its games, I just wish there were more songs I wanted to play more than once.

Blog Post: Green Day: Rock Band Fails to Impress

Matt Helgeson — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:35:00 GMT

Blog Post: Green Day: Rock Band Fails to Impress

Matt Helgeson — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:35:00 GMT

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