...Is he playing on a strum bar?
The rumours have been flying thick and fast around the blogosphere for quite some time but now it’s official: LEGO Rock Band is coming soon in the most unconventional, unplanned and quite frankly unnecessary franchise mashup ever conceived.
Could the LEGO game franchise get any more ludicrous? See what I think over the jump, and let us know what you think…
LEGO Rock Band is as simple as it sounds: it’s Rock Band, right, except everything is made from hard plastic blocks with neither the acoustic audacity nor the comfort of most conventional musical instruments.
As it’s LEGO (you shout that, yeah?) everything will be family-friendly. This means you go through fantasy lands and blocky cityscapes when you’re out on the road, rather than hitting up the Vans Warped Tour and Ozzfest. It also means the track listing is full of clean, fresh-faced songs such as Kung Fu Fighting. And The Final Countdown.
As is the in-thing these days, you’ll be able to customise your LEGO figure rocker and their plastic instruments of death (sorry, “awesomeness” or whatever). As isn’t the in-thing these days, you can customise your roadies, managers and entourage too. Errrr.
Top it all off with some kooky, wacky animations like we’ve seen in LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Indiana Jones and LEGO Batman and some as-yet-unspecified “innovative new elements of game play” and you have yourself an ultimate money-spinning cash cow. Moooo.
The thing is, is it really necessary? As far as I can see in the press release, there are no special instruments being produced (presumably because sharp plastic edges on guitars, drums and microphones would spell a lot of cuts and bruises). There’s nothing going on except a plastic yellow facelift.
In the name of all that’s good and great in this world, why not save Travellers Tales the effort and just put all the songs up on the Rock Band download store? I can’t imagine LEGO being a massive brand name for a game like Rock Band, especially since the game is doing so well on its own.
Rather than give us a dumbed-down, additive-infused edition of Rock Band with – literally – blockier graphics, why not just sling the songs the way of the main game and let kids play that way? Saves money, saves effort, saves me the trouble of writing things like this.
Maybe I’m wrong though. Will anyone here buy LEGO Rock Band?
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If it means I get to make colored legos disappear, definitely.
You know this is going to be huge for the Wii.
I have nothing against an E for Everyone version of Rock Band, there really should be ONE music game for kids.
That said, can we all finally agree that Harmonix’ ‘platform’ BS was, is and will likely continue to be BS?
I think it’s funny that every “adult” gaming site is dogging this game so much. Way to pick the low hanging fruit, Yamster.
How cool would it be if they allowed some un-edited songs into the other Rock Band games because the kiddies have their own game now? This game may not be for me but I know a bunch of kids that are gonna love this game.
I think it would be good for kids, but I personally would rather have them finish LEGO: Harry Potter instead.
The word dumb can’t even begin to describe this. I’m sorry but this is a stupid idea, why not just stay as normal Rock Band instead of turning everything into stupid blocky Lego bricks and people. Yes the Lego franchises sell well, and yes this may be a good opportunity to get more of the family gamers to get into Rock Band, but that doesn’t mean that they should do it. Seriously, who thought of Rock Band + Lego? The stupid thing is, this will sell. No matter how stupid an idea it is, people will buy it.
i am behind anything featuring the final countdown.
We’re leaving toge-thuhhh
Still beats Wii Music.
@OMG
That’s not saying much.
Really, Rock Band Legos? Honestly? I… words fail me…
I just don’t see what the big deal is. Why is this game hitting a nerve with so many people?
@ TheMoon: If it will sell well…why is it a stupid idea again?
I get it! They use all the shitty popular songs that those crazy kids love on this one so the people playing the main Rock Band series don’t have to be subjected to it! Yay!
But Goddamn if it doesn’t look awesome…
I get it! They use all the overrated popular songs that those crazy kids love on this one so the players of the main Rock Band series don’t have to be subjected to it! Yay!
But Goddamn if it doesn’t look awesome…
Oh, apart from the Final Countdown. BADASS.
now that could be crazy fun!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Harmonix make a big deal about not falling into the Guitar Hero yearly cycle by waiting a year to release Rock Band 3? Then they announced Beatles Rock Band, Rock Band Unplugged, and now this. Way to show restraint, Harmonix.