Rock Band Special Edition Xbox 360 | 
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| From: MTV Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $169.99
Buy New: $145.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  235 reviews
Sales Rank: 126
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Special
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: XXX
Shipping Weight (lbs): 22
Dimensions (in): 12 x 36 x 48
MPN: 15911
Model: SEP
UPC: 014633159110
EAN: 0718738546331
ASIN: B000TT4GBG
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Experience 4 music games in 1--master lead guitar, bass guitar, drums, and vocals. Music spans all genres of rock and includes many master recordings from legendary artists. | | • | Form your own band, create and customize your own rocker, and travel on a fast rise to fame around the world. | | • | Choose single-player Career mode leading a band or multiplayer as part of the band or against each other--in person or online. Supports downloadable content for never-ending challenges. | | • | The Rock Band Special Edition includes the Xbox 360 game, a guitar controller, drum set, and microphone. |
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Product Description
Time to release your inner rock star! Dive into Rock Band's challenging and addicting game modes and rock out to your favorite tunes. Put together a band, play in it, and tour for fame and fortune- all while learning to master lead/bass guitar, drums and vocals. Major record labels and leading music publishers have signed on to provide unrivaled access to master recordings and legendary rock artists - from punk, metal and alternative to classic and southern rock - including many master recordings from legendary artists, including acts like Metallica, Bon Jovi, Stone Temple Pilots and the Ramones! Learn to play songs spanning all genres of rock and with access to new downloadable content, it's a new concert experience every time! Play together in your living room or across the world - Rock Band offers deep online functionality, allowing players to rock together whether they're in Rhode Island or Reykjavik. This Special Edition box includes game, guitar, microphone and drum set -- everything you need to get in the game and rock out! Call out the crowd! Vocalists can bring the crowd to their feet during Rock Band's freestyle vocal fill windows. Ad-lib your own words or shout to the crowd to raise the rock intensity of the performance. Band mates can fail out of a song for poor performance, but the band still plays on. Rescue your failing mate by busting out signature moves and blistering solos to wow the crowd with showmanship. Boost your bonus! Earn bonus points for your band during Rock Band's Unison Phrase opportunities if everyone plays perfectly. ESRB Rated T for Teen.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 230 more reviews...
 Great Family Fun August 10, 2008
My three sons, husband, and I love playing rock band. It is a great family game!
Worth every penny August 8, 2008
I own both Guitar Hero 3 and Rock Band. Without any question in my mind Rock Band is the superior game. Everything holds up well except for the bass pedal for the drums, which once I reinforced it with metal, it works fine. This seems pricey at first but if your a fan of these games it's cheaper buying this rather than every instrument down the road. Completly worth it.
 Very entertaining1 August 6, 2008
This game was worth every penny. If you love rock music and especially classic rock, then you will love this game. Whats so cool is that you can play with three friends. Youll just have to find someone who will sing in front of other people, I wont. Overall this is very enjoyable and the only reason I gave it four stars is because my pedal broke after just a couple months. I recommend that you buy a medal pedal cover when you purchase this game.
Most addictive game ever August 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Since my Nintendo gamecube broke a couple years ago I've been sadly systemless, missing out on all the cool games coming out and feeling out of place when my friends talk about how awesome they are at Guitar Hero. I never really cared too much to tell the truth, but sometimes when I have nothing to do I just want to sit down and shoot some zombies or steal a car or something (in a video game, not real life mind you).
Then, on the fourth of July I went over to a friend's house and played Rock Band for the first time. Of course I'd played Guitar Hero before this but I always hated the guitar. It's too small and the buttons have too much space between them. But Rock Band was completely different. You don't have to go solo all the time, you can have an actual BAND complete with drums and vocals and, if you have an extra guitar controller, a bass. My friends and I played that game all night long, and when I went home I stopped by Wal-Mart and bought an X-Box 360 just so I could play Rock Band at home. I haven't stopped playing it since.
My rockers name is Andrew Lee, and my bands called Stupified, and we're right now on a world tour. I play lead guitar, while my brothers do drums and vocals. I'm learning how to play bass (the real thing) JUST because I loved this game so much and wanted to learn how to play the real thing. I've never played such a fun game before.
But there are a few things which I don't like. One, the drum set is VERY flimsy. First the drumsticks which came with the game broke, and then the foot peddle broke (we can still use it though; Thank God for duck tape), and then the flaps started falling off the pads. Although I love the game the drum set really disappointed me in how easily it started to fall apart (although in all fairness my brother does hit it pretty hard). Also the drums and guitar make a lot of noise so that if your not close to the speakers all you'll hear is a loud tapping sound as the drumsticks hit the drum pads. Fortunately Rock Band 2 will have these problems solved.
The song list was a hit and miss for me. Although I loved "Enter Sandman" by Metalica, "When You Were Young" by The Killers, and "Learning to Fly" by the Foo Fighters, "Creep" by Radiohead and "Maps" by (don't remember) nearly put me to sleep. It's pretty much hit and miss for the rest. Some songs I'll love, some I'll hate, but I guess that's what downloadable songs are for. Also, look for an old song from Southpark called "Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld." It's really funny because Timmy from the show is actually singing the song. TIMMY! TIMMY-TOM-TIMMY!
So Rock Band or Guitar Hero III? Well lets make this easy, Rock Band has drums and vocals, and Guitar Hero does not, which means that the only things Guitar Hero has to offer is its guitar controller and the song list. Although Guitar Hero does have a really great song list, any advantage it might have is negated by the fact that you can download new songs for Rock Band. You can do the same for Guitar Hero III, what I'm saying though is that they negate each other.
And I'd also go so far as to say Rock Band's guitar controller is way more comfortable and easier to use then Guitar Hero's. It's bigger for one thing, and the buttons are bigger and don't have any gaps between them, meaning you won't ever put your fingers in the gaps between buttons (guilty as charged). There are also fret buttons at the bottom of the neck for children or people with small hands. They can also be played without strumming during solos. So to me it's a no brainier; unless you've already invested in Guitar Hero guitar controllers then go Rock Band. Guitar Hero IV will have drums and vocals in October, but fortunately Rock Band II 2 will be out around that time with improvements to its drums set including three symbols which can be added on (kind of puts Guitar Hero IV's drum set to shame, seeing how it only has five pads and Rock Band 2 will have seven not including the foot peddle).
Guitar Hero is cheaper to buy, but Rock Band's set comes with a guitar, drums, and a microphone. To get that same value you'd have to buy two extra guitars for Guitar Hero, by which time you'd spend more money then if you'd just bought Rock Band. So go with Rock Band, and I promise you won't regret it.
ROCK ON!
The kids love it. August 4, 2008
I got this for my kids and all the neighborhood kids love to come over and play with it. It's great for eye-hand coordination and I love hearing songs I know.
My son is now downloading some of them to his ipod.
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