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@Lucky48 why don't they add support for half an xbox controller, letting the player control movement one-handed tank-style like an RE game. Then the right hand could be used for moving. It would be an interesting proof of concept.

lol @ italian-sounding aliens.

About time!!! With the strong Aussie dollar, lots of us have been importing games from overseas. The R18+ issue has had huge implications on sales shifted for Australian retailers.

It would be brilliant to put 4 players over Live back into this. It will be interesting to see how they implement competitive multiplayer.

ANNND the comment reply system is still broken :(

and this is the thing with these music games that have always turned me off... the fact that they couldn't really translate learned skill from GH or RB onto a real instrument. I have always seen these guys as party games, and any time invested by someone playing on their own 'perfecting' their run on Expert should be spent learning a real instrument.

Now allowing the possibility of ANY MIDI instruments, like the keyboards 1:1 and drums into the RB arena to be controllers is damn exciting. Imagine primary school, where in music class you break kids off into groups and make them jam on real instruments in RB over a fortnight only to have them 'battle against each other in a classroom assessment. They have fun, but at the same time learn foundations of musicianship. In your case, using a real (virtual) drum set could be accurately translated into musicianship learned (mind you the drums are easily the most accurately translatable instruments as it is). Music + technology = greatness.

Man, the integration with MIDI looks really interesting. Imagine having a decent electronic drum kit and being able to calibrate it to Rock Band. That would be the ultimate way to learn.