Green Day: Rock Band releases June 8 worldwide

blink-182 please.

Using the reasoning of "Millions of fans" and "Sold out concerts" as rational? Then you don't get to complain if they release "Britney Spears: Rock Band", "Spice Girls: Rock Band", "N'Sync: Rock Band", etc. Just because millions of albums were sold and tours sold out does NOT mean they are great or high quality. I like Green Day, too, but I'll wait for this to show up on the Target end cap clearance rack for 75% off.

Brief career? 20+ years as a band is brief??

@TiLo

That's why I said "relative." When compared to the other bands that I mentioned, who still perform to some capacity, Green Day's career is brief.

The note highways aren't the least bit different. Call it petty, but the changed HUD was one of the things that justified The Beatles having their own game... something about those light blue fret buttons made it seem like a whole new experience.

Just to clarify, I'm not entirely serious about that last part... 65% at most.

Point taken Zoot....I know you were talking to TiLo..but I mentioned something as well.

Time for a great time on drums :)

Yay song export! That was my biggest gripe about Beatles RB

Good point on zep. Should only bands eligible for the rock n roll hall f fame be considered for rock band standalones? I have to assume that harmoniz will produce what they think will sell. I also feel (especially given the enjoyability of some of the creators network songs) that harmonic have a good handle on what songs make a fun game.

In the unlikely event they include the complete Network and Foxboro Hot Tubs albums (with costumes for the Network, dammit) I will purchase this. If it's just "real" Green Day, pass.

Green Day has always carried the burden of being so divisive when it comes to the legions of misinformed trying to cut them down a few pegs. It's a testament to their long-sustained popularity. Who could forget the sellout label assigned to them when they did what any sensible band would have done by signing to a major label all those years ago? Turned out pretty well for them and all of us, eh? Green Day will apparently never get the respect they rightfully deserve after over twenty years of truly incredible music. The band has been so influential to today's music, everyone knows the lyrics. They are masters of their craft as anyone who has seen them in concert will be able to attest to. Hopefully, someday people will get a clue and realize just how much this band has accomplished and how far they have come. In a way, they are like this generation's version of the Ramones, snooty nose-turner-uppers be damned. I don't buy new games anymore since they all drop in price ridiculously fast. But this is a day one purchase for this nimrod.

Ill do the same thing with this as I did with Lego RB and ACDC track pack. Buy the game, export the songs, make most of my money back selling it on Ebay to someone who doesnt care about exporting. Harmonix still got my original money so its not a lost for them since people buy used games all the time.

At the risk of sounding like a complete stoner, can you imagine the visuals for something like that?!


Attention Harmonix: My first born son is available for trade in exchange for Pink Floyd: Rock Band.

(Legal disclaimer: no, not really . . . probably.)

So can I just rent this and pay the $10 export fee, like Rock Band 1?

Hmm. Didn't expect to be seeing this at the end of the Spring. That's a bit surprising. It's based on the Beatles engine right? Smart more. Having Van Halen based on the World Tour engine and not the GH5 engine was such a mistake. Almost 50 songs? Not bad for these band specific games, and $10 to import all of the songs is pretty reasonable. Good to see they'll work in RB2 *and* RB1.

I also like the whole "Plus" pack they're doing. An extra $10 and you get a free download code to redeem the songs along with the other 6 songs they've put out as DLC. Having the redeem code as a pre-order bonus is nice too. Those are the type of things I like to see as pre-order bonuses. Added things, not content that's obvious been cut from the the disc or development time to be released on day 1 or shortly after.

Does the special edition come with a clothes pin to put on the singer's nose?

I'm only getting it because my girlfriend loves them, oh well... Rock Band 3 here I come.

Just saying, but as long as the band's songs are catchy I'd probably a game based on any band. (Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys among other random/looked down upon bands (which includes pop).)

Some bands may not be respected for their musical talent (other more so than others), but I'm not going to lie. Some songs are way too catchy to not just sing along with. Everytime I hear Lucky by Britney Spears or Shape of My Heart by Backstreet Boys, I can't help but sing-a-long with all of my heart.

The same can obviously be said of Green Day: Rock Band. Although the price is a bit steep, I can't help but think about all the potential songs on the disc that I'd love just sing my heart out on.

"The export features is not available for the Wii system" Thank you. I have been trying to figure out which band/guitar game to get on Wii. Now I can eliminate the Rock Bands.

Not to incite a riot against me, but regardless of the "GD sux"... "no they don't" arguements, has anyone wondered about the export feature to RB2 is going to work?

If RB: GD has multi-singe support, does that mean RB2 will get patched? Or will they just dumb down the track to 1 singer in RB2, then R3 will support multi-singer?

Just a thought

MAYBE They might even start selling Wii Guitar Controllers for this game. If so, then I'm actually glad its coming out.

So what is Green Day: Rock Band releasing, exactly? "Release" is a transitive verb. It is not a synonym for "debut." It would be correct to say that Green Day: Rock Band is BEING released June 8 worldwide, or that Harmonix will release Green Day: Rock Band June 8 worldwide, or that the game debuts, bows, comes out, hits stores, appears, becomes available, or what have you June 8 worldwide. However, the game isn't releasing anything, including itself, so the game will not "release" worldwide.

So Wii users are f*&(&ed again. Thanks Harmonix.

I'm the biggest Green Day fan there is, but this is just too expensive. 60 bucks for only 47 songs, plus an extra $10 to export them? I'll wait until the price drops until there is a ton of them sitting on the shelves, just like The Beatles Rock Band did.

Wow, so much hate for Green Day! Here is my two cents on this topic. For one, Green Day has actually been around longer than the Beatles. The Beatles were around from 1962 to 1969 (earlier years don't really count, that is the year they were considered to explode into popularity). That's 7 years, and they broke up permanently afterwards.
Green Day has been together for over 20 years and have had mainstream success for around 14 years. They've explored every ground of pop/punk music and have made punk music enormous, compared to the success of earlier punk bands.

Not only that, but they completed changed their theme of their music. What punk band has ever had the success of Green Day, then went into hiatus for several years, then released a new album with a completely new sound that that achieved global success in under a year? Not any as popular as Green Day! Also, I heard that before American Idiot, the completed a whole new album and someone stole it from the recording studio and then they created American Idiot after that. That's a pretty crazy story if you ask me and to even care about making music anymore after that, that's pretty bold.
I am an old time Green Day fan. I've even seen them live about four years ago after American Idiot came out. I like them when I was a little kid when Dookie came out and I still liked them after American Idiot. American Idiot was actually a great album in my opinion. Their latest album that I don't even know the name of I did not like so much but the point is, they are a great band and deserve to have a rock band game made for them.

The time period of how long a band is around for doesn't matter at all, it's the music, history, and fan base that counts. Green Day has good music (old and new), a compelling history of how they went from punk in Dookie to rock in American Idiot, and an enormous global fan base that's filled up the biggest stadiums in the world. Am I going to buy this game? Hell yea, and if you don't think it's worth it, then good for you, cheapskates! Wait another 6 month's or whatever unitl Rock Band 3, which will probably have alot of crappy songs on it.