Way back in the day, I used to listen to and play Rio with my college roommate on guitar. It’s the hot shit, especially for open mic nights on a college campus. I was happy to see it in Rock Band 2 and have played it at least 20 times on drums. Check out an 100% expert run with the highest score on the leaderboards.
Ummm, what would possess azuritereaction to do this, I’ll never know. He’s playing Painkiller from Judas Priest on expert drums… with one hand. Yeah, he manages to actually finish the song without failing and almost pulls off 4 stars. I have no idea how he did this. I’m beginning to think the dude is a Terminator.
To everyone who comments about the drumset, this is not me playing. The drums he’s using are a GoodWoods set and he’s using The Destroyer Pedal. I rock The Destroyer Pedal myself, but use the standard Rock Band 2 wireless drum set.
You won’t get to see any cool drumming today. Instead, check out all the stuff that goes into making the cool videos azuritereaction puts out. It’s a three camera setup with all kinds of crazy hookups and editing involved. Pretty damn cool, if you ask me.
Here’s an interesting one for you: CrushCrushCrush by Paramore on expert drums with only one hand. Yep, you read that right. Our good pal azuritereaction pulled 5 stars on this one too. He’s good. I’m not anywhere near that level. One day. One day.
I’m a big fan of The Killers. Have been for a while. Getting to rock out on the drums to Mr. Brightside is a treat for me, so here’s a video showing off someone else’s skills. What, you think I’d show you mine? Actually, I would, but I don’t have a video camera right now. So rock on.
It looks like the $300 million in bonuses that the Harmonix co-founders received got the attention of a few lawyers. On November 18th, Kansas resident Monte Morgan filed a class action lawsuit against Harmonix over broken bass drum pedals that are allegedly defective. The drum pedals in question are from the original Rock Band title that had a knack for breaking under normal use.
EA had issued an extended warranty beyond the original 60 days where the customer could have the defective pedals replaced without a receipt. Since October 1st, 2008 however, the customer is required to have a receipt showing the product in question was purchased within the last 60 days, which is where the problem arises. If the defective pedal is purchased as a gift in advance, the warranty could be up before the device is even used.
Rock Band 2 has an improved drum pedal with a metal plate that remedies the problem. The plaintiff’s have stated that the release of Rock Band 2 and the timing of the extended warranty being dropped has to do with driving sales towards Rock Band 2.
My drum pedal is still going strong but I can understand the resentment. The extended warranty being conveniently dropped at the time of the next Rock Band release is just too obvious. The cost of replacing the old pedals with the new metal version would be high, but isn’t that better than a lawsuit and bad publicity?
We finally have some positive financial news coming from the game industry, sort of. When MTV acquired Harmonix it seems they placed a few incentives into the deal. Harmonix founders Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy received 150 million dollars last quarter and will receive another payment in 2009 which will exceed 150 million dollars. That’s over 300 million dollars just in bonuses for the hard working founders of our beloved Rock Band franchise.
MTV’s parent company, Viacom released a statement explaining why they are paying Harmonix so much money even though they as a company are performing poorly financially,
“We may not have anticipated the payment would be that high, but it’s based on what they have achieved,” Viacom spokeswoman Kelly McAndrew told Bloomberg. “If they are making more money for us and we have to give a little back, that’s ok.”
I applaud you Viacom for taking the high road unlike most giant corporations and giving back to your employees just like you promised.
[Via Gamesindustry.biz]
Another week with another full album in Rock Band. On Tuesday on the Xbox 360 and Thursday on the PS3 you can snag Foo Fighter’s The Colour and the Shape.
Standard $1.99 (160 MS Points) per track applies, or you can get the whole shebang for $19.99 (1600 MS Points). I’ll probably get a couple tracks here, but not the full thing. What about you?
It has happened. The Beatles will finally be gracing a rhythm game next Holiday season (that’s 2009 folks). Harmonix/MTV Games and Apple Corp, the company that represents the Beatles, held a conference call this morning to announce the joint venture.
The details are slim for now, but we know it will be a full game based on The Beatles’ music. You’ll be able to follow the band from their humble beginnings all the way through the huge hits. It’ll have the Rock Band feel, so gameplay-wise, I wouldn’t expect anything crazy. All your instruments will work, so don’t worry about having to buy new gear.
Getting to hear it all go down live this morning was pretty fun. I was really hoping to hear “and you’ll be able to download Beatles tracks in Rock Band this week”, but I guess we’ll have to wait a while. It’s gonna be awesome either way.
All types of different melodies will be blasting your eardrums this week with Rock Band DLC. Seven tracks in total will be hitting the Xbox 360 tomorrow and the PS3 on Thursday.
I have a strong feeling I’ll be saving my money on DLC this week. What about you?
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