The Beatles™: Rock Band™ Gets A Trailer™
Yes the mother lode edition of Rock Band becomes a reality on 9/9/09. Everybody is excited. Apple Corps/Viacom/MTV Games shareholders are super excited. Your boyfriend is already spurting himself in anticipation. It's all happening, nerds! Even Sir Macca himself is demonstrably enthused, if you can take the fact that his background screens during that great Coachella set basically became a commercial for this installment of Rock Band. It's billed as a "first-of-its-kind music-based video game offers a revolutionary tour of The Beatles' music, career, and legacy." Here's a trailer to help visualize why this is not your average timesuck:
The X-Box game comes out 9/9, which is also the date the Beatles' entire discography gets its digitally remastered re-release. The game will have 45 songs for you. The first 10 have been identified:
01 "I Saw Her Standing There"
02 "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
03 "I Feel Fine"
04 "Taxman"
05 "Day Tripper"
06 "Back In The USSR"
07 "I Am The Walrus"
08 "Octopus's Garden"
09 "Here Comes The Sun"
10 "Get Back"
And they're promising all of Abbey Road for future download purchase, as well as others from the discog. Looks like they're making it so it was worth the wait (or at least worth having bought X-Box in anticipation). More info and pre-order links at the official site.
Posted at 5:57 PM by amrit in Video, Video Games
Tags: George Harrison | John Lennon | Paul McCartney | Ringo Starr | Rock Band | The Beatles
I wonder what George and John would think of it. Graphics look good though.
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You obviously have no idea where the state of gaming console graphics are. This game looks like shit compared to most any other modern title.
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this guy is right. haters be downvoting
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What, so they should apply the standard Call of Duty grapical treatment to a game about playing in a band? Photo realistic eh? It's called a design direction- the graphics fit the game and look crisp("good"). You fail.
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Do you have to blatantly promote your pages like that. Thats why all your comments get downvoted so much.
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this game does look like a ton of fun
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pretty sweet that they did 'get back' on the roof of Apple. nice to know these rock band dudes did their homework.
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Helter Skelter ought to be sweet....
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Where's my acid dealer when I need him?
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Graphics do look great. Love the trippiness from 'I Am A Walrus' on.
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Are you looking for the "motherload"?
No!
I'm digging for the mother lode.
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finally! an excuse to get my parents to buy this game and system.
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i hope there is a part where you can sing like yoko ono.
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You wanna know how f-----' busy The Beatles were in 1963? Check this:
http://www.dmbeatles.com/history.php?year=1963
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number 9...number 9...number 9...number 9...haha
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Looks awesome.
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if this has "happiness is a warm gun" i will buy a game system to have this.
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I say I'm too old to waste my time with a game console but daaaaamn is this enticing...
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First of all, there's no hyphen. It's just Xbox.
Second, it's going to be available on Xbox 360, Wii, and Playstation 3.
Good try, though.
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Shut up, nerd.
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I'm not sure if this blows my indie cred or not but THREE PART VOCAL HARMONY MOTHERFUCKER
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words in lowercase blow your indie cred
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Aw wonderful. Can't wait for this.
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They old elgish dudes wrote some amazing shit didn't they? :P
Here comes the sun and al that.
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I think one of the overlooked amazing parts of the trailer is the introduction of two part vocal harmonies.
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jesus they did a great job with this
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the beatles = lame
if only they could have given us a real rockband special edition. perhaps green day???? : )
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Fuck you rooksauce. Can't F-ing Wait!!!!
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The other trailer is 100x more awesome.
I'd link it, but nobody would watch anyways...
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This is going to be SO fun :)
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It better have "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
I always imagined that would be the best song for this type of game
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So says Pitchfork, "At some point in the future, you'll be able to download even more, including Abbey Road in its entirety."
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So says Stereogum, in this post, "And they're promising all of Abbey Road for future download purchase."
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I guess everyone hates Pitchfork now...they're the exact same comment except the Stereogum one has twenty positive votes and the Pitchfork one's been downvoted...interesting
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I would almost certainly buy a next-gen console for this. So long, Dreamcast.
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So long Dreamcast???
What will you play Hydro Thunder on then?
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So long Dreamcast? Where will you play SHENMUE on then?!?!
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they have to warn about tobacco references in games these days?
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When people play this game they're going to realize how hard some of this stuff is to sing...the "Day Tripper" harmony, for one - no chubby neckbeard is gonna hit those notes.
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tobacco reference? heh heh, yeah, something was being smoked at least.
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hahaha... I'm at a point where I don't know who's serious and who's so indie sarcastic anymore...
"Beatles=lame"?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!? HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA only one-upped by a "they should make a green day guitar hero" (even bigger laugh)
sorry buddy without the Beatles there would be no Green Day.
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If they had Tomorrow Never Knows...(fingers crossed)
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Has anyone heard anything about pricing for the Remastered Box Set dropping the same day?
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This looks like fun! I've been resisting Rock band and the like for this long ...but it will be tough to resist now :)
Maybe I'll have a kid or two to justify the purchase...fianlly a video game that i would mind children playing.
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The preview looks cool to me, though I think it's sad that rather than actually learning these tunes (with a real instrument), we've become a nation of gamers who don't know how to do anything for real anymore.
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People always make comments like this in regards to Rock Band/Guitar Hero games, as if playing them precludes playing real instruments. I don't get it. I feel like games like this would probably INSPIRE a lot more people to pick up an actual guitar.
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The drums (and obviously the singing) translate very well into the actual skills (but piss off the neighbors slightly less than a real kit). The guitar skills, not as much, but it definitely increases the manual dexterity and speed that you need to play guitar.
I'm super excited for this game, though. And rather a nation of gamers who are at least playing fake instruments. It's a skill that translates into *something* unlike, say, Donkey Kong or Madden.
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guess i'm the only one who has a problem with showing a virtual ringo playing drums on "back in the u.s.s.r." when, in fact, paul played drums on that song. but, then again, i'm a beatles nerd.
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I thought of the same thing... wait, Paul played drums on USSR... Haha... We Beatles dorks have to stick together!!
Looking forward to the game... should be a lot of fun.
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^maybe it was live? Should be pretty sweet and will be the first Rockband/Guitar Hero that i will be purchasing.
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They stopped touring about three years before the song was written.
*also a Beatles nerd*
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If only they had a mellotron....or a harpsichord.
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I prefer playing drums on Rock Band but I'd rather be John than Ringo. Dilemma!
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THis is going to be fantastic, I'm in I want one know. They are still the greatest rock n roll band ever.
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I don't know shit about video games, but as a huge Beatledork..this looks amazing.
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Why not Guitar Hero? Rock Band is way inferior, especially for the Beatles.
srsly
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Are you serious? Have you even played both? Rock Band is miles ahead of Guitar Hero.
In other news, everyone should check out the ridiculously awesome animated introduction to the game: http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/04/see-the-beatles-rock-band-cartoon-intro-in-high-quality/
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CAN'T YOU DOWNVOTERS SEE YOU'RE GIVING HIM WHAT HE WANTS?!?!?? GAAAAA
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This will be the next stage in my air-guitar, bedroom Beatles fantasy.
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awesome! this is going to spawn so many feuds over who gets to be john.
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