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Beatles Rock Band game - this is what it looks like
Posted by David Hepworth on 2 June 2009 - 7:40am.
Do go carefully because there's a "tobacco reference" there but this is what Paul and Ringo unveiled yesterday.
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Despite having no interest whatsoever in computer games...
I found that rather exciting. Like many people on this site I hardly ever listen to The Beatles (despite loving their music) but that trailer has made me want to play their records on heavy rotation. Hearing so many great songs back to back (Inclusion of 'Octopus' Garden' - respect) has reminded me once more of their winning way with a tune.
Did you notice ...
even as a CGI, Paul has the best hair.
I suppose we all know
what Noel Gallagher's getting for Christmas now.
I thought he got it
for Xmas 1993...
Oh........
that's just fantastic!!
I want a Rolling Stones one starting off with Alexis Korner at the Crawdaddy!!!
And
And here's Paul and Ringo at the launch...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8078280.stm
Not having any particular interest in gaming, I was bitten by the RockStar bug at a friend's flat earlier in the year. It's a ridiculous amount of fun, but have shyed away from letting it into the house because, you know, I've got things to do. However this makes it look hard to resist...
I thought we weren't
supposed to call Bungo by his stage name any more?
I'd have preferred
Octopus' Garden, rather than, Octopus's Garden, but that's just me
I'd prefered Octopussy' Garden
myself!
Ha!
Nice spot.
I despair
I really do.
You're not one of those people who say "krizziz house" but write "Chris' house" are you, Rob? If so, rehab facilities can be arranged.
Surely it's up to us
where we live! In one street in south london there used to be 2 Cypriot barbers one called "Chris'" the other Chris's.
Us Chris's have enough burdens to bear without worrying about the odd comma Oxford or other wise!
Mark Ellen may know this........
"Chris's Fish Bar" opposite Turnham Green station........
Lovely!
Is anyone pedantic enough to say...
"Apostrophes, not commas, surely?"
"One Chris, but two Chrises"
and
"Octopus's is both the right way to write it and the right way to say it"
?
I'm not.
Rockband Wag Wii
They are probably bringing out a version in pink box with things youngs girl can do with the Beatles: Includes a tambourine and a camera, a large bag, Eric Clapton and erm whatever Ringo’s wife (wives) do.
Ssshh!
Ssshh, don't give 'em ideas! How long before we get the Led Zep Guitar Hero game... including hidden unlockable 'groupie' content..? You buy the add-on red snapper controller for PS3 or XBox, and then xxx xxxxx x xxxxx xxxxx xx xxx xxxxxx.(censored)
Fantastic...
I love these sorts of games - 'Guitar Hero' was a lot of fun, and this looks even better. It's just a shame you have to buy nearly £150 worth of hardware to be able to get the full benefit from the game. With that coming out at the same time as the remastered CDs, that's a heck of a lot of product released at the same time.
...
The package including the game, drums, microphone and stand, and McCartney's bass is £180. The other guitars are £90 each!
With the mono box set rumoured to be £200 it's going to be an expensive Beatles September for me....
how long after will you
utter the phrase "it's funny we don't play them as much as we thought we would" :)
...
You may have a point. I constantly play the Beatles - 'Revolver' is on now - but I do have Guitar Hero III on the Wii and since I completed I haven't played it again...
...
Definitely want to get the instruments too...you can get McCartney's Hohner violin bass, Lennon's Rickenbacker or Harrison's Gretsch...
http://www.engadget.com/photos/beatles-rock-band-trailer-screenshots-lud...
An old rocker writes...
they do look nice but wouldn't you be better off buying, I dunno, a real guitar
...
I think there's some middle ground here - I am already learning piano - I find it difficult to dedicate enough time to that, and having had lessons for 2 years I'm only just proficient enough to hack my way through a few pieces.
I can play a bit of guitar too, strum a few chords and even pick my way through some of 'Blackbird'.
But sometimes I just want to sit down with Guitar Hero and feel like I'm banging out some Rage Against the Machine or Foo Fighters - I certainly don't have the time or talent to learn them on the real thing, so it's probably the closest I'm going to get, and it's pretty instant gratification. Give me the Beatles in that form, and I'll be one happy bunny!
Fair point
and well made, I've never tried the game so I don't know.
But is there
a sitar?
and
will Paul's 'guitars' be left-handed??
Is this you?
Macca played a Hohner violin bass?
Did he get Messrs Hohner to copy his famous Hofner violin bass for him? :-)
..
meh, 'f', 'h', whatever :-)
Rich
Plus and minus
Looking at those instruments, two thoughts came to mind:
1) The drum pads have a proper Ringo-esque black oyster wrap finish! Such a nice touch.
2) A tremolo on a bass? I know it's because it's part of the game, but honestly...!
"Tremolo on a bass?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_VI
(Posts a pedant...)
Great stuff, at one point in
Great stuff, at one point in the trailer I thought it would only be pre-1966 stuff or whenever they stopped playing live. So which is better, Guitar Hero or Rock Band?
There's only one way to find out...
Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!
Is it just me, or...
... on the BBC clip, did Thumbs and Bongo look like they'd just woken up in the green room, having been chloroformed at their mansions and smuggled there by undercover postmen, and told by very large ape-like grunts that they had to get on stage in TWO MINUTES and talk to thousands of people about a computer game based around the Beatles' music, on a live broadcast?
And was it co-incidence Yoko got cut off before she could say anything?
No?
OK then...
I wonder...
...if this game had been around in 1957, would we have actually had the Beatles at all?
that's
what I was getting at above
Nice
Probably much more fun than any version of Guitar Hero because the selection of songs in GH is so utterly rubbish and many of them aren't by the real bands anyway.
I don't get it!
Surely anyone old enough to care about the Fabs is too old to care about video games? ;-)
not necessarily...
...I was born 2 years after they split up, and I've been listening to them all my life. My 9 year old niece has loads of Beatles on her iPod!
Alright...
Fair enough then. I was only messing really...
The Beatles' World Domination Part IV, or V ... or maybe VI?
Obviously the period 1963-70, then the mid-70s pre-punk re-release of every single and LP, the 1980s CD releases, the 1990s 'At The BBC'/'Anthology'/'1' onslaught, the 21st Century 'Let It Be ... Naked' / 'Love' remixes, and now the re-mastered digital / stereo / mono / X-Box manoeuvre.
Personally I'm all for it. Although I think they missed a trick by not taking up the Maharishi's invitation to stand for Parliament in 1992. I'm guessing that at least they wouldn't have had to fiddle their expenses.
a nerd writes
feel free to sneer and grumble all you like, I'm looking forward to playing 'Don't Let Me Down' on the Apple rooftop. Real n fake guitars, you can have both. Its not a substitute, its a sherbert dip type instant rush!
Its quite fun whatever age you are. You stick to your football player chappies and I'll have this. Sunlight be damned!
koowull -
but where's the ammo store - and when do we get to blam the Stones? Eat metal Who muthafucka! Hey Davies Frag your Kinky ass! Oasis? Noob loser - BLAM BLAM BLAM!!!
Will my real...
Grestch duo-jet work with it?
true life anyone?
the senarios on these games are very limted how about some true life rock moments:
Strum along to the chords as our rock heroe writes his famous world conquering ballad while his first wife and childhood sweet heart sobs in the next room because he's told her he's leaving for glamorous german woman he's just met.
or perhaps tinkle along as our hero picks out the tune of his hatefilled diatribe against the public school system , his parents and nuclear war sat on the verandha of his castle in spain.
or try to smile and play on after one the band has found it he has a solo deal and will jump ship after you've played hamburg.
anymore?
Point of Pedantry...
...but didn't Paul play drums on Back in the USSR? Or am I missing the point entirely?
That's nothing.
Lennon wasn't on Here Comes the Sun at all.
What's next?
'Rockmag' on the Wii? Get a plastic Remington typewriter and bash out 200 words on the MC5 whilst Lester Bangs berates you.
If you get it right, you get an Olympus portable and have to review The Clash whilst Julie Burchill sits opposite you.
Final level is to use your fake plastic Mac to write a subtly witty piece on Richard Thompson whilst Mark Ellen gently reminds you it's press day...
what ever happens
"rockmag" cyber journos won't have been at the same gig as paying punters over at "rockfan".
The Two Of Us
Behind the traditional thumbs-aloft japery there's something really quite poignant about seeing Macca and Ringo together there. When the door closes on the outside world they know they're the only two people in the universe who can truly share the experience of what it was like being a Fab. How lonely it'll be when there's one man left standing.
Wellllll......
...I did start a (rather controversial) thread about Pete Pest vis a vis the Last Fab Standing scenario a few weeks back. But I'll say no more....
very true that
good point nick. despite everything there's still something special about them both being around and getting on at these kind of things.
I'm still confused
by the Tobacco reference?
Where?
Tobacco
It's two seconds into the clip.
Pah
Ringo playing drums on Back in the USSR? Does he throw down the sticks halfway through and storm out?
You lot won't be happy
until they bring out Folk-Rock band and it's Fairport edition. For anyone getting too excited,I made it up.
Rock Band is great fun.It's better than Guitar Hero
wii rockband mash up
surely the balance board gizmo and the musical instruments and probably a digital cod piece can mean only one thing "Jethro cocking tull" can you knock out living in the past while balancing on one leg.....
Mmm... cyberdildonics...
A digital codpiece for the Wii? Please tell me that's real. Please!
The Next Step?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/4/22/
I think this comic explains where we might be leading
Do you get a French Horn
Do you get a French Horn with it so someone can sit out their turn to be Alan Civil? What about the bit where you have to use your Wii controller to thread imaginary tapes on Revolution #9? Anyway this is all very nice but can we have Let It Be on DVD please?
more grown men
plastic instrument silliness here...
http://www.engadget.com/photos/the-beatles-rock-band-hands-on/
awesome
Wow. This is awesome. So I can click click clickity click along to all the beatles hits? Fab-tastic. Clickity, click click click click click. double click, whammmy barrrrrrrr. click. click....CLICK.
Sorry, I still don't get this. A mate of mine invited me round with a bunch of other guys to have a few beers and play 'rock band' on the wii. I clicked my way through one song before giving it up for the evening. It was sssssooooo dull. Like a week in the jail.
Don't get me wrong, I love computer games, having played them for years but I just don't see what all the fuss is about.
Also, Macca and Bongo looked like they were both clueless as to why they were there, but my God the cheque must have been nice.
Who wrote...
"Imagine no possessions"-just slipped my mind for a moment.
I hear there's a Neil Young version coming out...
called 'Rockin In The Wii World'
Ouch
Perhaps the Beatles will treat us to PS3 I Love You...
It's Sony a northern song?
Love Me Nintendo?
weren't all of the above
covered by the Bob Sega Band?
It ain't fair, Clive Sinclair...
Um.....
When I'm N64?