Rock Band is been toping the music game charts since its inception, but until now, the series hasn’t attempted to truly reinvent itself.
Rock Band 3 is a daring entry to revises its formula to incorporate real life licks and a cool keyboard. The preeminent music game is looking to change the paradigm once again, but do the fans have enough space in their hearts and living rooms for more plastic?
The Rock Band 3 brings some game changing features, but the fundamentals remained unchanged. Above else, Rock Band is all about the idea that anyone can feel like a rock star, as long as they mastery over the 5 colored buttons on a plastic guitar. This time however, the game is just as accommodating to those willing to step up to a new and more demanding level of play.
The song selection is excellent and exhibits a cool inside of the tracks best suited for group play, turning up acts like Queen, The Beach Boys and Huey Lewis and the news. All of the game 83 tracks are available right from the start, but if you prefer to tackle the playlist in a structure format, career mode effortless drop in, drop out play returns with noticeable tweaks.
Progress in Rock Band 3 is now documented by challenges and mini games tight to the game career central track. Specific challenges like maintaining as continuous overdrive as possible, encourage in approach that’s more than actively engaging discreet objectives, than simply play well from a song to the next. It’s a smart edition and especially welcomed once the music starts to feel familiar.
Playing on Pro mode is like turning Rock Band 3 to 11, it provides an additional level of difficulty above Expert, that makes use of the optional new peripherals, to deliver an experience darn close to actually playing music.
The Training for those new peripherals provides enough of a foundation to try and actually play any of the 83 tracks of the game. Make no mistake, however, for all the details that trainers go into, Pro mode is the hardest things you will ever do in the game, not to mention one of the most expensive, with the Fender Mustang peripheral alone retailing for 150 dollars, but if you’ve always wanted something more than Expert mode, than you are covered.
Generally speaking, Rock Band 3’s gameplay falls very much in line with its previous iterations, delivering the same fun and accessible group experience as always has, only now a new instrument and a difficulty mode introduce a few unique dynamics. On regular difficulty, the keyboard is actually one of the easier instruments to get into, but on Pro it’s a whole different story, you will need a lot of practice and patience to nail it down.
The excellent sound quality is also just what you would expect and it has some particular details for individual notes for Pro mode play. In terms of overall audio and visual package, Rock Band 3 definitely lives up to series standards.
For dedicated players willing to throw themselves to the speakers, Rock Band 3 offers an avenue of musical exploration that you may not have thought possible in a video game.
