Green Day: Rock Band trailer unveiled, songs will be exportable

No! No! Don't go the way activision went! Please Harmonix. PLEEEAAAASE!!!!

Green Day isn't terrible, I just hate looking at them.

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

I don't understand the amount of Green Day haters on Joystiq. Sure, they're not as good or as well-known as the Beatles, but that doesn't mean that they don't deserve a game.

The fact of the matter is that they have been around for 21 years and they have made many great albums in that time.

Don't you see what Harmonix is doing?

The Beatles: Rock Band is for older people that grew up with the Beatles and still love them today.

Green Day: Rock Band is for the 13-20somethings year olds (myself included) that grew up with albums like Dookie that changed modern music. Personally, Green Day is my favorite band and I am very excited about this.

Lego: Rock Band is for the younger kids that want to play music games, but don't want to play stuff like Judas Priest and Abnormality in RB2.

This is my favorite announcement of 2009 and I am anxiously awaiting the release.

This isn't going the way Activision went, this game's characters actually looks pretty sharp. Hopefully others will see the good job that Harmonix has done with the Beatles and Green Day. Then maybe we'll see bands like Led Zep and Pink Floyd.

Calm down its only 2 games. We didn't start doing this to activision til like the 5th. This is probably why Harrison said Rock Band 3 won't be out for like 3 years though

Think of it this way, because they're getting their own game, there's less chance of them being in Rock Band 3 and people picking fucking VISIONS EVERYTIME I CHOOSE TO PLAY WITH SOMEONE ONLINE, GODDAMN IT!!

I mean, uh...

*exits quietly*

Thanks John, my thoughts exactly. Today it seems that all the cool kids want to hate on Green Day. I spent most of the 90's carrying around a CD case with all their albums, so to me this game is a huge deal. Cannot wait. :)

I've got nothing against Green Day, I'm not a big fan either though.

But I don't understand why they would go to Green Day for a game.

When bands like Pink Floyd and U2 are willing to have a music game for themselves, and they are arguably much bigger. Just seems like a strange choice in the end. Especially when the bloody Beatles could barely sell a game, Green Day will fare much worse.

I which they would've made a Led Zeppelin rock band :(......

Dear Harmonix,

RO-LLING-STONES! RO-LLING-STONES!

John, Green Day's been around since the late 80s, dumbass. There goes your whole theory.

@Blaze

Your reading abilities are ASTONISHING!

@Brysonial the Bison(and all the other people saying the same kinda thing):
From what we've seen, this doesn't look like it will be going the way of Activision/Neversoft for several reasons. As mentioned above the character models look much better in this, we can also see from The Beatles: Rock Band that Harmonix puts a lot of effort into making it more suited towards the specific band; the difference here is that Green Day aren't as different to the normal themes of Rock Band as The Beatles were. We also see that when they make a band specific game they *shock* actually have the on disc songs only from that band and quite a few of the bands songs, I would think because of the looser licensing Green Day would have that there will probably be more songs than there was on The Beatles: Rock Band. In contrast to this, GH: Metallica only has 28 Metallica songs and 21 other songs, which really, is pathetic. (That's only 57% songs by the band who's name is on the disc and cover!)

Sure, we probably all would have rather seen nearly any other band get a game. But with the amount of DLC harmonix pumps out, I don't think we need to get our panties in a bundle over this.
You know, we could just NOT buy the game

How does such a shitty band get the same respect as one of the best bands of all time? It's very confusing. I would have rather heard of a "The Rolling Stones: Rock Band" or something else that's good!

I'm old enough to actually know Green Day is not big enough for this and young enough to have appreciated their coming out & what they are today and I believe to know enough that I could not ever agree to Green Day being garbage or deservi ng of such a task.

Seriously people, no offense, but they are not of Led Zeppellin, Pink Floyd, The Smashing Pumpkins or of U2 status for arguments sake.

Again, I fear that adding GD to the standalone genre of Rock Band will hurt chances of seeing those bigger, arguably better and musically historical bands from getting their much more deserving just dues considering The Beatles' Rock Band hasn't sold like gangbusters and it's the FUCKING Beatles for crying out loud. People of all walks of life know them, heard of them and at one time loved them or had one of their songs play at some point in their existence. They are the kings of modern day popular rock, so seeing GD:RB, which I truly believe will barely move big numbers will kill the chances of seeing the more historical bands from getting their own freaking games. Nirvana, Pearl Jam or Soundgarden are more deserving than Green Day of this honor and they shouldn't either. All they should get as well are song pack releases.

Green Day deserves pack releases at best & not a stand alone game, not now at least, sorry. Sorry GD fans but be serious.

Johnny Neat: I was wholeheartedly agreeing with you until you mentioned Smashing Pumpkins. Then you blew it.

@cafecito, Little Coffee, funny name choice by the way, I don't know how old you are but you can't ignore that The Smashing Pumpkins exceeded Nirvana for top alternative band especially once Kurt died and after the dust settled and ripped or flannel gear was put away.

Look, I wouldn't have believed it back then but they managed it & became my, at the time for sure without a doubt, favorite modern day band. Granted I hated anything that was metal or scream rock from them but they did manage to have tons of hits/single worthy songs.

Plus any band that can manage a concept album gets high praise from me and I believe rock lovers.

There are many bands with far more consistently great songs in their back catalogue than Green Day. All arguably far more influential, too.

That they don't have their own multi-million dollar video game in production shows you just how punk Billie Joe and his chums are.

There is only one solution to the Beatles Rock Band/ GH Metallica qandry. Ready? Band Hero Beatallica!

Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6QaxPfxxFY&feature=related

Putting aside the fact that Green Day were better in the past than they are now, their songs were among the first I ever learned on the guitar because they were easy power chord based riffs that one could learn in about a half hour. I also cannot deny the fun of playing their music on RB. But they are a band that I doubt has the catalog to support their own game. Aerosmith barely did, and that game was executed poorly. GH Metallica was a step up, and Beatles RB was a step beyond that. I just hate to see any innovation or advancement go to a Green Day iteration. There are more relevant bands that deserve it more than they do. Couldnt they just do a track pack a'la AC/DC and call it a day? That said, this will sell, and sadly it may outsell the previous band-based titles. And those bands are much better. *tear*

LETS MAKE A NEW VIDEO GAME FOR EVERY EFFING BAND AND ARTIST IN THE WORLD, YEA THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE

that makes a whole lot more sense than releasing it as DLC which is basically what it could be. If they're going to keep releasing artist specific games, they should at least be a bit cheaper. I meant come on, its the same game, just different songs, but all one band.

Hope Boulevard Of Broken Dreams is good.

What, like Van Halen?

they have been around for 20-25 years. and unlike most big rock bands, they have pretty much been steadily producing stuff over that time, and not falling apart/getting back together when they need money.

If with "producing stuff" you mean "churning out crap", then yes, you're right.

Green Day isn't bad, it's a solid band and I like it. There's no need to diss it because every emo and wanna be punk/goth likes it...

they are a solid band. their drummer especially. they're not the best, but they're not crap like you all make them out to be.

exactly. i hate how when something becomes popular by a group that most of society dislikes, suddenly your expected to no longer like it, otherwise your not "cool".

who gives a shit, its a good band. sure warning wasn't great, but american idiot was alright. i still like kerplunk/dookie the most. but unlike a lot of bands, when they changed their style around nimrod, things didnt get horrible. and they managed to start making some pretty good albums again, even if it was after a few shaky ones.

its like marilyn manson, he put out some good music, got popular by goths, everyone shunned them, they eventually got unpopular, and now i know jocks that listen to some of the newest stuff, and i wouldnt say its any better than when people were shunning it for being "goth"

I liked Warning more than anything except Dookie and Nimrod.

Green Day's an alright band, but there's not emo. Emo kids don't like Green Day; they like Cap'n Jazz.

i dont really think they have ever put out anything "horrible" but of the albums ive listened to (which i dont think is all of them) warning was one of my least favorite. i think its just that i couldnt get into most of the songs. i like downtown/minority... cant remember any others off the top of my head.

to each their own though.

you cannot deny their early stuff is awesome. It is just their last 2 albums that have been kinda crap mostly their last one. I will most likely treat this as merely an expansion pack as I did for ACDC and Lego Back Band. This just makes my Rock Band 2 even more awesome.

they have been around since the beginning of the '90s, I consider that being around for a while.

"i hate how when something becomes popular by a group that most of society dislikes, suddenly your expected to no longer like it, otherwise your not "cool"."

I hated them before they were popular.

Don't project your feelings, or your justification on why so many people hate a band that you like, on everyone else.

not to defend green day here, but i'm gonna bet that they have a much better job than you'll ever have.

And David they probably have a better job than you'll ever had, that made no sense. It's a bit off putting that Harmonix do another Band only game...but when your parent company is Viacom it's the beginning of worse things to come. Jersey Shore: Rock Band here we come...

it makes plenty sense, it's your problem if you didn't understand it. the commenter was making fun of green day for putting on make-up and acting like children, as if they're doing the wrong thing with their lives. but they get paid, they probably get laid (or if they have families they support them pretty well), and i'm sure they have plenty of fun doing it.

yeah, they have a better job than me, but i'm not the one putting down what they do, whereas whippy is.

make sense now? or is that still too hard for you to understand?

I can't really hear you from the top of that soapbox you're on, please come down.

David, just because they have fun, does not mean their music is any less shitty, or that they look any less gay doing what they do. It just means there are enough retarded people and 13 year old girls in the world to support it.

HAHA YEAH RIGHT! There will be a Hannah Montana version of a hardcore portable gaming and multimedia device--with a color that belongs on a shampoo bottle like "Lilac"--before anything like that ever happens. WHICH IT WONT.

BTW: TES IV for GOTY / I