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What is it with celebrities featuredin games being seriously loose-lipped when it comes to talking about said games? In 2006 Kristen Bell managed to spoil Assassin’s Creed in its entirety; now Paul McCartney is doing it too, having blabbed about the Beatles game that is Rock Band but won’t be called Rock Band.

Find out what he let slip after the jump!

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Sir Paul (for it is he) mentioned the upcoming game – being developed by Harmonix, and published by EA – in passing but what he revealed was more than enough to stir my curiosity.

“[The game] will feature different periods of the band – you get early days, Liverpool, then psychedelic, and on from there. It’s very cool. And I like the idea that the game introduces kids to music, you know?”

Forgetting the fact that kids aren’t the only people who play Rock Band, Sir Paul seems to know what he’s on about. Either that, or he’s being spoon-fed from EA’s PR agency, which is more than likely. Regardless, it’s all sounding a little bit exciting.

EA’s statement that this game wouldn’t fall under the Rock Band label is beginning to make sense. Unlike the AC/DC expansion disc, this is going to be a story-based music game. Of sorts. While it’ll play in the same way as Rock Band, with a career mode that will jump from one iconic concert to the next, I have a feeling that there’ll be a lot of videos and other media slotted in between the various gigs.

The potential for further downloadable content in the form of yet more Beatles songs is undeniable. Come to think of it, the idea of playing all of the band’s best live performances will probably be a game-seller to the more misty-eyed gamers among us. I’m not a huge Beatles fan so it probably won’t hugely appeal to me, not least because it’ll take four and a half decades to arrive in Europe by which time the price will be somewhere in the trillions and so I wouldn’t bother anyway.

What about the Beatles fans reading this post, though? Would you buy a Beatles game that played like Rock Band but let you re-enact the Fab Four’s most memorable performances? Let us know in the comments down there…

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