Rock Band = Awesome
A friend of mine recently bought Rock Band for the Xbox 360. This game is absolutely fantastic. Fact.
It is a lot like Guitar Hero, except that it comes with a drum set and a microphone as well as a guitar. (I say comes with, you have to buy the intruments separately from the game) and the premise is that you start a band and go on tour, trying to get as many fans as possible (all the while making money from your gigs).
There is a reasonably robust character creation mode, although the one thing that annoys me about it is that (as far as I’m aware) you can’t use a character for more than one instrument (not at the same time, obviously, but between different band set ups). That is a minor inconvenience though, nothing major.
A while back, when I got my exam results, I went round to my friends house with a group of friends and we basically played Rock Band from about 10pm through till 3:30am. It was awesome! It was so much fun playing with everyone, and at one point we had 6 people playing at once. Two guitarists, a singer, and three people on the drums (one person using the left drumstick, another with the right drumstick and the third person using the foot pedal!).
My friend lent me the instruments and game while he was at Glastonbury festival so I’ve been trying to improve a little. I was absolutely terrible at the drums previously, and could play Bass on medium pretty confidently. I’m still absolutely terrible at the drums! But at least I can play through songs on Easy mode! I have trouble with the foot pedal and doing three things at once basically! I’ve become more confident playing Lead Guitar, but still struggle on some songs at Medium difficulty.
It’s safe to say that I’ve avoided the singing aspect of the game as I really can’t sing! It doesn’t help that I don’t know many of the words at all!