Lego Rock Band real, coming Holiday 2009

by Justin McElroy { Apr 21st 2009 at 9:57AM }

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If you've worried about your youngsters being exposed to the evils of rock music, worry no longer: LEGO Rock Band is coming this holiday season on PS3, 360, Wii and DS to deliver us all from said evil. The game, currently being developed by TT Games and Harmonix, will use all the existing Rock Band and Guitar Hero peripherals.

The family-focused version of the game will allow you to customize your "minifigure avatars" along with your road crew and managers. The kid-friendly song list hasn't been fully disclosed, but we know it'll include:

Blur: "Song 2"
Carl Douglas: "Kung Fu Fighting"
Europe: "The Final Countdown"
Good Charlotte: "Boys and Girls"
Pink: "So What"

So, LEGOs or Beatles, who's getting your Rock Band dollar this year?

Gallery: Lego Rock Band

Tags: ea, harmonix, lego-rock-band, mtv, rock-band, tt-games

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)

I.AM.IRON.MAN @ Apr 21st 2009 10:00AM

neither.

fffunfarm06 @ Apr 21st 2009 11:59AM

omg they're selling out.
they are humpin' the cash cow like activision has been till shes dried up .

they're gonna beat the rock band name to a pulp until we are absolutely sick and tired of instrument rhythm games.

p.s. is their a petition for a pink floyd rock band? with an accompanied keyboard peripheral? ill buy that and the beatles game in a heart beat.

TheDave @ Apr 21st 2009 12:19PM

I Agree, probably neither...

Although, I would buy the Lego one before I bought the Beatles one

Troy Powers (PSN: TroyPowers) @ Apr 21st 2009 12:49PM

I'm so sick of these corny games. All of you people should just learn to play with REAL Legos.

FalseGod @ Apr 21st 2009 1:04PM

But just imagine the setlist!
"Block Rockin' Beats"
The entire Bloc Party discography!
"Thick as a Brick" (longest song yet!)
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
"Another Brick in the Wall"
"Old Yellow Bricks"

Tiptup300 @ Apr 21st 2009 1:37PM

WTF, we've wanted the Final Countdown on the real Rock Band for months, YTF is this getting it?

United States of Generica @ Apr 21st 2009 2:53PM

RE: LEGOs

The plural of LEGO is LEGO (or LEGO bricks), why do Americans have such a hard time with this concept and incorrectly call them LEGOs?

Although the Danish are a polite and forgiving people, if you try and go to legos.com you are politely told that you "are probably looking for lego.com" and automatically redirected.

Taedirk @ Apr 21st 2009 5:29PM

@United States of Generica
It's not that we have a problem with the plural of Lego, it's that we just don't give a damn. Whining about using Legos as a plural is just that - whining. It's the little kid yelling about how you're not playing the game right despite the fact everybody enjoys it their way. The only thing it harms is the whiny kid's overinflated level of self-importance, which needed to be taken down a few notches in the first place.

Paragon @ Apr 21st 2009 6:34PM

@falsegod

Totatlly forgot to add "Brick House" to that list.

Apollo @ Apr 21st 2009 10:02AM

I get a feeling people will still defend this one even when there are "too many guitar hero's!" battles.

il_duce620 @ Apr 21st 2009 10:31AM

I get the feeling you're right...

Antagonist @ Apr 21st 2009 10:31AM

Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero 2
Guitar Hero 3
Guitar Hero World Tour
Guitar Hero Encore Rocks the 80s
Guitar Hero Aerosmith
Guitar Hero Metallica
Guitar Hero On Tour
Guitar Hero On Tour Decades
Guitar Hero On Tour Modern Hits
Guitar Hero Smash Hits

Rock Band
Rock Band 2
Rock Band AC/DC Expansion
Rock Band Unplugged
Rock Band Beatles dealio
Lego Rock Band

Right now they're just a two-dollar bus station whore over at Harmonix, barely turning enough tricks to keep the supply of meth coming in. They still have a ways to go before they're the high dollar Pretty Woman whore that Activision is.

davebo @ Apr 21st 2009 10:40AM

Well in all fairness Antagonist, Guitar Hero, GH2 and rocks the 80's all go under Harmonix's list, not Activision's.

I don't know about you all, but I'd be fine with just keeping Rock Band 2 forever and just adding DLC to it every week. Could use an update to 1080p though.

copa @ Apr 21st 2009 10:41AM

Nope, I'm a huge Harmonix fan, and I can't defend this.

T @ Apr 21st 2009 10:47AM

There are currently more than 600 songs avaiable for the Rock Band franchise. All but three of them are playable in Rock Band 2. This includes the AC/DC disc, and the RB1 songs. Even the exclusives from RBU will be released to the Music Store once the PSP game has been out for a while.

As long as Harmonix continues to support the platform concept by allowing content from older games to be moved forward to newer titles, they will continue to earn my dollar.

This is comparred to Guitar Hero, who releases a game...then cuts the legs out from underneath it by announcing three more within the first six months of the game's existance. Including band-centric discs that contain numerous songs that would make for incredible weekly DLC releases.

For now, that is the difference. HMX would be wise, however, to keep that difference established by continuing to support older RB content in newer titles.

jorojoserojas @ Apr 21st 2009 10:46AM

Harmonix is one of my favorite developers, and I can't defend this game.

Maulok @ Apr 21st 2009 11:10AM

Agreed with everyone else. This is indefensible. At best this should be novelty DLC skins for RB2, not an entire game.

MarkHawk @ Apr 21st 2009 11:32AM

Rock Band AC/DC Expansion
Rock Band Unplugged

Those are just DLC (AC/DC being exclusive Wal-Mart DLC). Sure you could play those stand alone but all allowed you to just transfer the content to RB1 or 2.

Rollins @ Apr 21st 2009 11:44AM

I don't see too much of a problem with this as long as the songs can be used in Rock Band 2.

If they can't, then we have problems, as the whole "platform" idea will have been thrown under a bus.

evan @ Apr 21st 2009 12:01PM

How is Unplugged an expansion?

Courtney @ Apr 21st 2009 12:36PM

T's got a hell of a point, I agree with him/her/it.

Troy Powers (PSN: TroyPowers) @ Apr 21st 2009 12:38PM

I agree with MarkHawk and Rollins. As long as the songs can be imported into RB2, I'm cool with it. That just makes it an expansion pack. If you've already got the older games, you can cop this and add some new songs. If you don't, but like these songs, you've got a new game. Completely different from releasing a stand-alone non-compatible game every 6 months. And if it's like RB2 and has 80+ tracks for only $60, it's as good as pre-ordered.

Tiptup300 @ Apr 21st 2009 2:01PM

Antagonist, You can't count ACDC, it's more of a DLC-type thing.

CTC XBL-supapaypamawio PSN-ctclaw @ Apr 21st 2009 2:26PM

The press release also mentions a Lego Rock Band for DS as well, so add another game to the Rock Band list since it's not going to share DLC and will most likely be different than Unplugged.

Nate Addison @ Apr 21st 2009 11:35PM

guitar hero,guitar hero 2, and 80's have nothing to do with activision, those go with the rock band portion, thus creating a higher end bus station

Muffin Lad @ Apr 21st 2009 10:03AM

wrong target audience?

i mean would parents approve of rock and roll young'ins? and buy this for their kids?

HappyFunBall @ Apr 21st 2009 10:43AM

I'd buy it for my kids.

Tukachinchilla @ Apr 21st 2009 10:47AM

I would. my 6-year-olds are playing RB2, no problem. Family-Friendly?? You mean, the Beginner level? My kids hated on GH's 'hit anything on the beat' bar.

My vote is for RB: Beatles. Certainly not both. The Lego song pack should be made available for RB if it is more kid-ified.

Sstavix @ Apr 21st 2009 11:38AM

As a parent, I would certainly consider it more than the "traditional" alternatives. I borrowed GH3 from a friend to try it out, but I found the graphics to be hideous and the playlist containing tracks that, while I enjoyed most of them, I wouldn't want to expose my 5-year-old to right now.

A LEGO game might be a music game I wouldn't worry as much with my kids playing. So yes, it might not sell to the diehard "Rock Band" fanatics, but it will sell just because of the LEGO franchise.

Troy Powers (PSN: TroyPowers) @ Apr 21st 2009 12:43PM

I play RB2 with my 5 year old all the time. It's a great way to get your kids into music. It's fun family time. Teaches a little coordination. Could actually lead to an interest in playing real instruments. Why WOULDN'T you buy this for your kids?

JuanDHexen @ Apr 21st 2009 10:02AM

I am sure they could have thought of something more useless.

Kid Chemical @ Apr 21st 2009 10:03AM

Awesome.

Not the product. But the onslaught of defender posts from folks that condemn Red Octane/Activision for doing the same thing: Whoring out a popular franchise.

Kyle @ Apr 21st 2009 10:30AM

NO U

InFaMoUs1- @ Apr 21st 2009 10:03AM

what's next Transformers Rock Band?

Peter Moore @ Apr 21st 2009 10:15AM

Who needs a tour bus when you ARE the bus?

CannabisPrime @ Apr 21st 2009 10:20AM

Featuring:

The Transformers Theme - Lion
The Touch - Stan Bush
Dare - Stan Bush
Dare to be Stupid - Weird Al Yankovic
Nothin's Gonna Stand in Our Way - Spectre General

I would totally buy Rock Band: Transformers

Dirty @ Apr 21st 2009 10:23AM

Throw in some GI Joes and Ninja Turtles and Im in.

samfish @ Apr 21st 2009 10:25AM

Don't forget He-Man and the Thundercats.

Shagittarius @ Apr 21st 2009 11:29AM

SHNARF SHNARF!

xGearSecondx @ Apr 21st 2009 3:28PM

Pokemon Rock Band version

Bowser Rogozhin @ Apr 21st 2009 10:03AM

Really, they need to stop. Just stop.

Alex @ Apr 21st 2009 10:54AM

OK, so for everyone out there who complains and say's they're whoring, who the f@(& cares? Are you being forced to buy it? Are you being forced to play it? I mean seriously what else do you expect a popular video game franchise to do?

If your brand sells, guess what, you continue to sell under that brand, you'd be an idiot not to! I can clearly see where Harmonix is coming from here, I have certainly heard lots of comments about Rock Band's character models, etc. not being suitiable for younger kids, and to a lesser extent Guitar Hero. If parents see a lego branded music game, it's a guaranteed sell, they're not going to question, is this kid friendly? Because it has lego on the box, it's like a guarantee saying it's family safe.

And I'd say Guitar Hero still deserves some garabge thrown at them in terms of the quality they churn out, but not because they are continuing to make Guitar Hero games. They deserve criticism because they are just repackaged the same engine with different songs over and over-- not because they are releasing games.

I'd say Rock Band deserves credit though because the games they are releasing this year, Rock Band Beatles is a very different experience then straight Rock Band, and I'm sure Lego Rock Band will have plenty of features in it that are quite a different experience from that of other Rock Band titles. And even Rock Band Unplugged is a very different experience, unlike Guitar Hero On Tour, which is just trying to cram the Guitar Hero experience onto DS.

Granted I'm a Rock Band fanboy, but seriously neither company deserves flack for releasing products. Would you rather have them just sit on their asses and never release anything? I mean come on! How else do you expect game companies to make money? I really don't get why people get all pissy off of something as stupid as this. I mean, where's the outrage when Mountain Dew releases a new flavor of Mountain Dew?

You guys really need to grow up, and take some basic econ 101 lessons. If this stuff bothers you so much, then DONT BUY THE FREAKIN GAME, or even better, if you think all of this stuff is so tired and worn out, go out and start your own damn company and develop your own damn game.

Good god. Seriously, if you apply your logic to everything else, every time a Mario, Zelda, Madden, Call of Duty, Halo, Gears of War, God of War, Killzone, Metal Gear, Madden, NCAA, Final Fantasy, Metroid, Mass Effect, Star Wars, Unreal, Half-Life, game comes out, you all should be throwing fits and bitching till kingdom come.

Shut the f&ck up and let companies do what they do best, develop games, and if it ends up sucking in your opinion, don't buy it and move on.

Now bring on the FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MrSpaceCowboy @ Apr 21st 2009 11:03AM

I'm now going to direct my fanboy fury at Mountain Dew.

Thanks for opening my eyes Alex.

WiredKnight @ Apr 21st 2009 11:09AM

God forbid anyone make any money of off a good idea.

Bowser Rogozhin @ Apr 21st 2009 11:10AM

Dude, to be honest, I didn’t read all that. You’re not a familiar name and the weather’s too stuffy to manufacture the expected response. Music games such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero rank lower than the old LCD games from the 1980s. They’re not games, and the amount of emotion you’ve ‘seemingly’ put into your response is not warranted. You’re getting heated about a sub-genre that is without worth.