Rock Band and the Downloadable Content

January 9, 2008 · Filed Under Entertainment · Comments 

I sure love the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). At first I was a bit bummed out that, even though it’s taking place in my backyard, I’m not attending. But then, by mid-day yesterday there were enough blog reports of new goodies to send a gadget junkie like myself in to an orgasmic coma. No less than 10 people sent me a link to the Alienware Curved LCD Monitor that was announced.

Today I was passed a link to a new set of prototype drums for the game Rock Band.

Rock Band Drums

While the drums certainly look awesome, I see two major issues why I could never own them. First, they look like they’ll be expensive. Second, where the hell would I put those? Unless I plan on converting my living room in to Rock Band Central 24/7, I think I’ll have to just pass on these. But, they sure look awesome!

Speaking of Rock Band, yesterday I went on to xBox Live and downloaded some of the extra tracks they made available for download. I grabbed the Metallica Pack (3 songs: Blackened, And Justice for All, Ride the Lightening), the Black Sabbath Pack (3 songs: N.I.B., Sweat Leaf, War Pigs) and Iron Maiden’s The Number of the Beast. The Maiden song is a lot of fun to play on drums. I’ve found that to be true of all the Iron Maiden songs so far. I would love to have a bunch more Iron Maiden content available. I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

After waiting a while for the songs to download, I finally got to play the Metallica songs. First I played Blackened on Medium. Holy crap! That song was hard. I got 4 stars, but there was a section where I wasn’t sure I was going to pass the song. I played the other two songs and got 5 stars on each. I then went back and 5 starred Blackened as well. I have no idea what those songs are going to be like on the Hard level, but I can see myself failing them a few times before being able to beat them.

If you have Rock Band and xBox 360, you gotta go grab the Metallica songs. They are awesome to play and a definite challenge. Tonight I’ll try them on hard and see how well that goes…

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