The "Guitar Game" phenomenon continues, and I, for one could not be happier! Why, you ask? Because not only do I love to rock, but I ROCK! Well at least when it comes to guitar games (On medium, I am 5-button retarded!) I can't seem to get enough, so of course now that "Lego Rock Band" is out, I am swimming in a pool of Rock, once more!
Now, I am personally of the opinion that "Rock Band" is the superior game to "Guitar Hero" and I know that there are people who are going to disagree with me, but I am sorry, I think that the quality of music alone is enough to get me playing "Rock Band" before any other.
"Lego Rock Band" is exactly what it sounds like. The "Rock Band" you know and love, with the toy that kids of all ages love: "Lego". Like the Lego games before it, there's a broad appeal to it for persons of all ages. The games is not like any of the other Rock Band games before it, with the exception that you play as adorable little Lego People!
MTV Games has put a pretty-decent assortment of music to it, most of all the one reason I bought the game: "The Final Countdown" by Europe (10 points to the first person to tell me why I love this song so much!) but it's put a lot of songs that are not already in the Rock Band series, so at least while the gameplay isn't much different, at least the content is.
The Career mode is what I like best of all, because it's not the same "World Tour" styled like we last saw in Rock Band 2, it has similar elements, however each "Level" has a sort-of bonus stage, where you have to use the "Power of Rock" to help accomplish a task, like knocking down a building, or scaring the ghosts out of a haunted house! (Which the music fit perfectly for that task: Ghostbusters, by Ray Parker, Jr., the very song that defiled my very beloved "Huey Lewis and the News", but I still love the song anyway.)
I also like the fact that the notes on the screen look like little lego pieces, which adds to the game, however at first it was quite confusing.
The one real sore spot that I have toward the game, is that I have a ton of DLC-songs from Rock Band 2, which I would love to see be made available for Transfer to play on Lego Rock Band, however it doesn't even look like it is DLC-enabled (At least for the Wii, it may be different on PS3/XBox360), which did upset me because it would have been nice to play some of those songs in Lego-form.
I have not yet played the game all the way through (I just got it a couple of hours ago) but I have to admit that I enjoy it greatly, and look forward to more game play of it later on this evening, and I will be playing it non-stop until I (Of course) get Super Mario Bros Wii tomorrow (Which I will review at that time)
Out of a Possible 10 Grilled Cheese Sandwiches, "Lego Rock Band" gets a 7, only because of the DLC issue, if that were resolved, I would give it a much higher score.
By Forch F. Fortier (Who is wishing upon a star for "Huey Lewis and the News Rock Band", but can not figure out for the life of me why MTV Games can't get it done! I mean they're icons of the 1980's and they've had enough hits, right? Well, ok fine, not enough to warrant a full game, but at least put together an 80's rock collection with them in it, pretty please???)
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