Much like this series itself, it looked like the Rock Band franchise wasn’t going to come back following Rock Band 3 (not counting the spin-off title Rock Band Blitz).… Read More
Setlist Sunday: Rock Band 4
Category: Setlist Sunday
Setlist Saturday: Revolution X
When Midway was looking to make a follow up to their incredibly popular Terminator 2: Judgment Day arcade machine, there was really only one logical property to base it on: Aerosmith!… Read More
Setlist Sunday: Rock Band Blitz
Rhythm games were in a weird state in 2012. Guitar Hero had announced in early 2011 that they were ending the Hero franchise and pretty much the only new release was a guitar teaching tool from Ubisoft.… Read More
Setlist Sunday: Rock Band 3
Much like how a lot of Guitar Hero fans might point to Guitar Hero II as being the best game in the series if not the financial/cultural peak, Rock Band fans will take a similar view to Rock Band 3.… Read More
Setlist Sunday: Power Gig: Rise of the SixString
Every once in a while you get a genre defining masterpiece. Games like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Final Fantasy VII, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Resident Evil 4 and Super Mario World.… Read More
Setlist Sunday: Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock
There are many who would say that Guitar Hero had lost its way. Between DJ spinoffs that were REALLY good, pop themed spinoffs that were pretty decent, portable spinoffs of varying quality, and a Van Halen spinoff that was just bad, the Hero brand had lost its lustre.… Read More
Setlist Sunday: Green Day: Rock Band
Guitar Hero had been doing the band-centric games for a while, but in 2009 Rock Band took a different approach when they released The Beatles: Rock Band.… Read More
Setlist Sunday: Lego Rock Band
On the exact same day that Guitar Hero took a stab at a younger audience with Band Hero – November 3rd, 2009 – Harmonix launched its corresponding attempt in collaboration with Lego video game developer TT Fusion: a title as bizarre, and ostensibly kid-friendly, as it sounds.… Read More
Setlist Sunday: Band Hero DS
The DS Guitar Hero games were popular enough to warrant three entries in the series, so it wasn’t surprising that, deep in to the year of oversaturation that was 2009, they’d make another one.… Read More
Setlist Sunday: Band Hero
The Guitar Hero train kept on rolling through 2009 with yet another side game. This time, however, the focus was almost completely off of the rock music seen in previous Guitar Hero games, instead having a more pop oriented feel designed around vocalists.… Read More