Rock Revolution
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Published in PlayStation 3 | 5 Reviews
Release your inner rockstar or allow your friends the privilege of picking up an axe or pounding the skins with you to 40 mind bending rock and roll tracks! Unleash your creative juices in the Jam Mode where you can create your own music in a state of the art multi-track studio! This is the musical revolution the world has been waiting for!Release your inner rockstar or allow your friends the privilege of picking up an axe or pounding the skins with you to 40 mind bending rock and roll tracks. Unleash your creative juices in the Jam Mode where you can create your own music in a state of the art multi-track studio. This is the musical revolution the world has been waiting for. Title Artist All The Small Things blink-182 Chop Suey! System Of A Down Cum On Feel The Noize Quiet Riot (Slade) Dance, Dance Fall Out Boy Detroit Rock City Kiss Dr. Feelgood Motley Crue Highway Star Deep Purple ... More >>
- Rock out on drums, but also wail on your guitar or bass in the same game, use the drum kit or a guitar freely in Jam mode and record up to 8 seperate tracks
- Online persistent scoreboards allow performance comparison with other players around the world
- Up to 15 cool and realistic characters in stunning unique and authentic venues
- Choose from 40 plus songs to jam, also downloadable songs and song packs available after initial release and a broad range of music styles
- Online and offline multiplayer, versus, coop and band battle with rehearsal mode and career mode
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December 18th, 2009at (#)
This apparently flopped badly. Purchased for under $10 at local gamestop.
Gameplay is not bad at all and song selection is great. Most are covers but done very well. Excellent note layout and good sound.
If “Dr. Feelgood” is a cover it is the best cover I’ve ever heard. Convinced it is the original.
Anyway if the tracklist interests you, give it a try.
Rating: 4 / 5
December 18th, 2009at (#)
Sure, these may be cover tunes, and the graphics are not quite as slick as rock band 2 or guitar hero world tour, both of which I own, but i think this overall wins the battle for affordable fun in this genre. The setlist is a great 40 songs with a selection of metal songs that I really like (songs from diamondhead, pantera, and megadeth), and you don’t have to buy new guitars, just use your RB or GHIII guitars. Plus, I can drum with my GH World Tour Drums. They work, but you have to set the drums as a 5 drum set, and get used to your kick pedal being orange instead of purple, and ignore your orange cymbal. The side note highway is easy to pick up on, very intuitive. Plus, this has a recording studio that you can mess around in. 3 players can play guitar, bass, and drums, but no vocals, not a big deal. There are poison note challenges and progressive difficulty challenges during your tour which make this more of a game then simulation, a fun aspect. I have played with the konomi drums my brother has, and if you want to go that route, that offers and expanded seven note bar that other drumming games don’t have, nice bonus. However, the Konami drums do not work correctly with Rock Band 2, and the Konami drums are wired. I think this is a nice addition for plastic instrament junkies like me looking for a different take on an old concept. Now a good value too!!!
Update 5/1/2009: I just recently got rock band 1, and once that was installed, a patch (something like version 1.09) uploaded and now the guitar hero les pauls work with that game, along with this drumkit working with both RB1 and RB2!! With the price continuing to go down for this game, no excuse not to add it to your library.
Rating: 5 / 5
December 18th, 2009at (#)
Since all the Rock Revolution songs are covers I would never have never bought it if it was more expensive. Pleasant surprise though, the covers are generally very good quality, they’re not much more different-sounding than live recordings by the original artist would be. Kudos to the cover band(s). If you’re picky about songs sounding exactly like the album or radio version, the cover songs will probably bother you.
You can play drums, guitar, or bass, there are no vocals on Rock Revolution. I played with a Rock Band Guitar and Rock Band Drums, also tried Guitar Hero World Tour drums as described below. The Rock Band guitar worked fine with this game.
The vertical note scrolling isn’t great, but I got used to it. The circular shape of the notes was ok and they were bright, better than the “Chinese hats” or whatever those Guitar Hero notes are, but the bright clear rectangles of Rock Band are the best in my opinion.
As far as drumming, the kick pedal notation as “just another note” is jarring, I did get used to it but never completely liked it. I was using the Rock Band drums and they work well for the most part, but the Guitar Hero World Tour drums weren’t great with this game, the note mapping was too far off (especially on the cymbals), much like using the Guitar Hero drums in Rock Band.
On the guitar side, it seemed like there were more chords and I felt like I was actually playing Electric Guitar more than Rock Band. There’s also an occasional notation in certain songs when you’re supposed to just wail on a note; you just have to strum a certain speed or above and hold the note. That was a nice touch and seemed somewhat realistic.
As far as the actual gameplay, you’re really just playing sets of songs, there is no character creation or tour. Playing the basic songs was fine, but I found most of other things like avoiding “poison” notes or playing without the notes visible were much more frustrating than fun. So I found myself staying in quick play mode more than the career.
I played this game a few times but ultimately, like after playing Guitar Hero World Tour, went back to Rock Band 2. But if you don’t pay much for it, it’s worth it for an alternative take on a music game, and to play songs like Heart’s “Magic Man.”
Rating: 3 / 5
December 18th, 2009at (#)
When I saw the song list for this game, I figured, what the heck? How could it possibly be as bad as all the gamers claim? So I bought it, since it was only twenty bucks. I wish I had my twenty bucks back.
The game itself isn’t that bad, but it is not even in the same zip code as the far superior Rock Band and Guitar Hero titles. Once you’ve gotten used to seeing the 3-D scrolling of the notes in RB and GH, the vertical scroll in Rock Revolution is a major downgrade. It is also much harder to get a feel for exactly when the notes should be strummed; I got used to the GH timing almost immediately, but this game was much more awkward (I’d swear I was hitting the notes in rhythm, but kept missing them).
Then there is the calibration. When I played my very first song, I noticed that there was at least a half-second lag time, and I had to strum the notes early or I’d miss them. After trying to calibrate the lag three times (a process which was in itself difficult), it was only slightly better, and there’s nothing as freaking annoying as playing a game like this and missing notes you KNOW you hit.
Another feature that sounded like a good idea but ended up being nothing more than irritating was the “poisoned notes” sprinkled throughout each song. These are notes that are thrown at you along with the “real” notes, but they are hollow instead of colored. If you hit these “poisoned notes,” you lose your score multiplier, and even worse, if you hit too many of them, the song ends immediately (like getting booed off the stage for missing too many notes). This sounded like a novel idea, but I found it very frustrating. I mean, the whole point of these types of games is to hit every note you see; imagine playing Space Invaders, but being penalized for shooting certain aliens. Not as cool in practice as in theory, in my opinion.
The final strike against the game was the fact that the awesome track list includes almost no original artists. While the cover bands do a more than capable job of performing the songs, it just isn’t the same; very few people can accurately mimic the vocal stylings of legends like Geddy Lee and Bruce Dickinson, and it’s largely their voices that make those songs rock as hard as they do. Kudos to the other games for realizing this and now having almost all original artists on their newest titles.
Overall, a very disappointing 2/5 stars from me. I only hope and pray that some of these songs may someday find their way onto the Guitar Hero set list. THAT would be worth a helluva lot more than twenty bucks.
Rating: 2 / 5
December 18th, 2009at (#)
I bought this game by risk because there are some reviews with very low score to this game when compared to Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour.
Critics said it has only 40 cover songs, no singing part when compared to the other 2 games. But there is no problem because I bought this for playing drums and it is much cheaper. The best thing is I can use my compatible RB1 drumset to play with this game (the drumset does not work with RB2!).
Critics said its kick pedal notation is not compatible with other 2 games. Yes! In the first day when I played it, it is quite hard as I am used to see vertical bar as kick pedal. However, in the second day when I played it, I am already used to its kick pedal notation style.
What I like most is the Career mode. It has funny and challenging missions like avoiding the poison notes, complete a song in 3 difficult levels, the song speeds up when the multiplier increases, learn and play the song without markers, and play the songs without error. This provides much more fun than RB!
Though there is no gimmick features like choosing my own clothes, instruments, tattoos,…, it is a funny game to play if you already have a guitar or drumset and you want to play more songs and face some new challenges.
Rating: 4 / 5