Game Info
Game Name: Rock Band 3
Developer(s): Harmonix (PS3, XBox 360)/Backbone Entertainment (Wii)
Publisher(s): MTV Games/Mad Catz
Platform(s): PS3/XBox 360/Wii
Genre(s): Music
Release Date(s): October 26, 2010
ESRB Rating: T
Elton John…Billy Joel…You?!
Just when you thought your band couldn’t rock any harder…Introducing a keyboardist! Let your new bandmate rock and allow him and others to join in on the singing as the band goes to new heights.
Rock Band 3 is probably the pinnacle of the music games…It has multiplayer singing (back-up vocals, main vocals). Real style guitars, bass, and drum kits for “pro” levels, and the new keyboard add. With all this added stuff, it is probably a better game right? Not quite. The gameplay is a little confusing with multiple menus, weird online play, a scaled back “tour” and to actually play Rock Band 3 as the makers intended it, it would mean shelling out hundreds of dollars for the pro-instruments…something I think most players wouldn’t do no matter how much they love the game. Also the song list of Rock Band 3 is good but I think the setlist of Rock Band 2 is more entertaining.
Complete the Rock Band 3 song setlist:
20th Century Boy—T. Rex
25 or 6 to 4—Chicago
Antibodies—Poni Hoax
Beast and the Harlot—Avenged Sevenfold
The Beautiful People—Marilyn Manson
Been Caught Stealing—Jane’s Addition
Before I Forget—Slipknot
Bohemian Rhapsody—Queen
Break on Through (To the Other Side)—The Doors
Caught in a Mosh—Anthrax
Centerfold—The J. Geils Band
China Grove—The Doobie Brothers
Cold as Ice—Foreigner
Combat Baby—Metric
The Con—Tegan and Sara
Crazy Train—Ozzy Osbourne
Crosstown Traffic—The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Dead End Friends—Them Crooked Vultures
Don’t Bury Me…I’m Still Not Dead—Riverboat Gamblers
Don’t Stand So Close to Me—The Police
Du Hast—Rammstein
Everybody Wants to Rule the World—Tears for Fears
False Alarm—The Bronx
Fly Like an Eagle—Steve Miller Band
Foolin—Def Leppard
Free Bird—Lynyrd Skynyrd
Get Free—The Vines
Get Up, Stand Up—Bob Marley and the Wailers
Good Vibrations (Live)—The Beach Boys
The Hardest Button to Button—The White Stripes
Heart of Glass—Blondie
Here I Go Again—Whitesnake
Hey Man, Nice Shot—Filter
Humanoid—Tokio Hotel
I Can See for Miles—The Who
I got You (I Feel Good)—James Brown
I Love Rock N’ Roll—Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
I Need to Know—Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
I Wanna Be Sedated—Ramones
Imagine—John Lennon
In a Big Country—Big Country
In the Meantime—Spacehog
Jerry Was a Race Car Driver—Primus
Just Like Heaven—The Cure
Killing Loneliness—H. I. M.
The Killing Moon—Echo & The Bunnymen
King George—Dover
Lasso—Phoenix
Last Dance—The Raveonettes
Living in America—The Sounds
Llama—Phish
The Look—Roxette
Low Rider—WAR
Me Enanmora—Juanes
Midlife Crisis—Faith No More
Misery Business—Paramore
Need You Tonight—INXS
No One Knows—Queens of the Stone Age
Oh My God—Ida Maria
One Armed Scissor—At the Drive-In
Outer Space—The Muffs
Oye Mi Amor—Mana
Plush—Stone Temple Pilots
Portions for Foxes—Rilo Kiley
The Power of Love—Huey Lewis and the News
Radar Love—Golden Earring
Rainbow in the Dark—Dio
Rehab—Amy Winehouse
Rock Lobster—The B-52’s
Roundabout—Yes
Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting—Elton John
Sister Christian—Night Ranger
Smoke on the Water—Deep Purple
Something Bigger, Something Brighter—Pretty Girls Make Graves
Space Oddity—David Bowie
Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before—The Smiths
This Bastard’s Life—Swinin’ Utters
Viva La Resistance—Hypernova
Walk of Life—Dire Straits
Walking on the Sun—Warren Zevon
Whip It—Devo
Yoshmi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1—The Flaming Lips
I’ll be tickling the ivories like a pro!
The keyboard obviously is the biggest add on to the game. It is alright, but performs more like a “keytar” and the performer really only uses one hand. It doesn’t really feel like you are performing on a keyboard as much as one of the Rock Band guitars…laid out. It isn’t a bad add on, but probably not worth the money.
A nice feature added to the game is the variety of “mini-achievements”. These are often in addition to the regular achievements given by XBox 360 and PS3 Trophies. It is really easy to keep track of your progress through them and some of the challenges are kind of fun (others are mind numbing).
Now can you afford all this? Just wait til Rock Band Brass Orchestra comes out
Rock Band 3 definitely has its pros and cons. It is one of the most developed games of the genre but in its extremely developed stage, it seems to lose a bit of the fun of the previous game. It might be that I’ve become a little jaded to the music games after years of play or it could be that it is just too overwhelming (and costly) to keep up with them. At least no matter what the future holds, you can now finish a music career with Free Bird as the crowd demands…full vocals, guitar, drums, etc.
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