Ten Beatles: Rock Band songs, first downloadable album revealed

The 'instruments' look great! I guess I will be picking up the special edition set after all!

oh sweet rocking!!!!!

i'll be getting the game for sure; not sure on the instruments. we'll see.

"Oh, that's right, downloadable albums."

but not for wii though, right? due to their licensing issues?

"Here Comes the Sun" and "Octopus' Garden" are both on Abbey Road, so there's a bit of overlap there. It's odd that they'd make songs from the Beatles disc available as DLC; but I guess those two songs probably aren't going to keep anyone from buying the new game. I mean, one of them is a Ringo song.

HOLY SHIT!

I was hoping to get all the songs in the game but I guess I was naive ...

Abbey Road is awesome. How about the chronology, though? Their last album is the first one you can buy in full? ;)

I was sort of so-so on this game until that presentation. Suh-weeeeet!

Will the downloadable albums work in Rock Band 1 or 2 if I don't buy the Beatles game?

I could go the rest of my life without ever hearing another Beatles song! I just threw up in my mouth when I read this article. The Beatles SUCK!

I'm pretty sure they won't be cross compatible either. I'm not a big Beatles fan which means I probably won't be buying any of the songs unless I can play them in Rock Band.

I for one wont be buying crap until dlc and everything is available to all platforms.
Of course if everyone did this they"ll see it as "See we picked the right platform, the other one isn't selling"
like Damn valve and when they shitted out orange box for the ps3.

And i hope/it should be available to RB2, you just wont get fancy instruments and cool BGs and characters.

WHERE. IS. HELTER. SKELTER.
Seriously is they don't announce The Beatles' heaviest song....
They will. Its HMX. They are amazing.

"Hey guys, guess what?! Not only can you give us money for a game, but now you can give us more money after you buy it for content that should clearly be available from the get-go anyway!"

I'm going to buy the game, because it's going to be awesome. But there's no way I'm going to download that DLC.

im sad about the drums look, they looks just like rock band 2 durms , thought it would be really like the lugwig drums like there saying

Any word on Mark Chapman DLC?

The Beatles!!.. do i need to say anything else?

Abbey road wasn't last

Abbey Road was recorded last, Get Back was released after it, though. It's not clear if they mean you get to download albums only into Beatles, or if they can go into RB2. Few of the songs are more than 3 minutes, you should get more songs on the game disc for this than the other games, which have longer songs, so there should be less to download, but we'll see.

Let It Be was released last, I'm 101% sure.... 1970.

I really hope that this is reviewed well and sells well. Then, maybe Led Zeppelin will make the decision to have a Rock Band: Led Zeppelin game as well. The possibility of downloadable albums would be amazing, although given their smaller music library than The Beatles, they could probably do a game with their entire song collection on it.

Afterwards, let's hope for Rock Band: Clapton Is God (Crossroads Box Set).

I could see the downloadable albums being compatible with RB2 if there were a game code that came with the Beatles Rock Band disc.

You know, can't download albums onto RB2 without the game code, or something like that. Just somethin to make sure people buy the Beatles disc.

In response to the original question:
So, LEGOs or Beatles, who's getting your Rock Band dollar this year?

The answer is a very enthusiastic BOTH!

How else are you going to get all these great songs? Most of the RockBand add-ons, or alone games are around $50, which is very inexpensive depending on how many songs come on 'em. If a song is $2 each, put at least 25 (much more for a great deal) and it's worth it.

All the games so far, RockBand 1, AC/DC, all the Track Packs, are easily installed onto your hard drive, so you only put in the one RockBand 2 disc and play all the songs.

I agree that RockBand is not so much a game, more of an experience. It's Karaoke for a whole band. Four-at-a-time, fantastically fun! Add to the fact they put out another ten or so new songs each week.. Wow!


Actually, what I'm waiting for is RockBand 3, that comes with a keyboard, so we can get all those great British New Wave acts of the early eighties!


Walt D in LV