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Rock Band 2 has been confirmed as in development for release in late 2008 by Wired. According to Wired, Harmonix is working on improving the instrument controllers but the current controllers will be forward compatible with Rock Band 2. Wired also stated that the game will likely include similar features announced for Guitar Hero World Tour, set also for release in late 2008.

just when it comes out in uk... ffs

I hope to God the music is also forward compatible.

That would be pretty awesome if it did, but I highly doubt it.

List things this game needs.

1) Solo BASS tour
2) The ability to pick your cpu controlled bandmates.
3) The ability to create your own setlist on solo tour, solo quickplay, and band quickplay. Where you could play as many songs in a row you want. And pick the venues.

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Originally Posted by Diesel Mac (Post 2171848)

1) Hell Yes.
2) Yeah. Maybe even pick them from the same profile.
3) Agreed.

Let me add:
4) The ability to use characters on the same profile to do BWT, period. I don't want to do a second profile if I want to sing and play guitar. In fact, just give us the option to have a frontman with a riddem geetar. In fact, let us use the guitar or drum's headset to sing.
5) BWT online. This would up the online portions by like 9 million percent.
6) More CAR features. More detail i ncreation. I don't need SVR-level depth, but it'd be nice if we had a bit more detail in the creation process. Maybe even options for how our characters behave at different points (Such as overdrive).
7) Like I said, import music from RB. They wanted to make it like iTunes, well iTunes doesn't make you rebuy songs when you get a new iPod.
8) Recognise local DLC. Like, with the local showcases? I have tons of songs from the Boston area, but it only counts the three that were part of the original setlist. Minor deal, but still.

If these keeps up, we are all going to have plastic instruments crowding our houses.

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Originally Posted by KingofOldSchool (Post 2171914)

If these keeps up, we are all going to have plastic instruments crowding our houses.

This is why Guitar Hero: Rock Band is such a bad idea.

Let's not forget Konami's Rock Revolution.

Wii's Wiifit board and those DDR mats won't help, either.

Or all those Donkey Kong Drums I have...

Or my Steel Batallion controls.

I have in my house right now:

2 Donkey Konga bongo drums
2 PS2 Guitar Hero guitars
A 360 Special Edition Rock Band set

I intend to get a 3rd party 360 GH/RB guitar. And if the new Guitar Hero is awesome enough, it means more instruments still. Fuck.

I have three plastic guitars. Technically, two. I lent the ex my SG for the PS2 so she could try Guitar Hero.

You know what would be nice. Customising your instruments. Head, fretboard, pickups...

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Originally Posted by Disturbed316 (Post 2205473)

Awesome news, Rock Band DLC will be playable on Rock Band 2:

MTV, EA reunite on Rock Band 2
Publishers getting the band back together exclusively for the Xbox 360 in September; arrives on other platforms later in the year.
By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
Posted Jun 30, 2008 9:34 am PT

There's nothing quite so rock and roll as a reunion tour, a fact underlined by today's announcement of Rock Band 2, which will see MTV Games and Harmonix once again team up with Electronic Arts to put toy instruments and games on shelves across the nation.

However, unlike last year's series debut, Rock Band 2 will be very selective about which shelves it appears on. The game will debut on the Xbox 360 in September, and after a North American "exclusive launch window," it will find its way to additional unspecified platforms by year's end.

With this year's installment of Activision's rival rocker Guitar Hero going head-to-head with the full four-piece band concept, Rock Band 2 is making a few upgrades of its own. First and foremost among the details revealed today is that the sequel will be backward compatible with the original Rock Band's downloadable content, with no need to repurchase or redownload it to the system. That makes for a sizeable potential Rock Band 2 library right off the bat, given that the Rock Band music store currently has more than 200 songs available, which have garnered some 15 million paid downloads since the game launched in November.

Furthermore, Harmonix will be offering "new and improved" drum and guitar controllers with new features and designs, "all fully compatible with original Rock Band instruments." The game's tracklist will consist entirely of master recordings, and Harmonix is also promising new online modes with a greater emphasis on the Rock Band community's social aspects.

More details about Rock Band 2 will be made public at this year's E3 Media & Business Summit.

LOL PS3 only owners get fucked

Not really? Yeah, the whole timed exclusive thing sucks, but a 3 month wait isn't the end of the world.

Unless the world does actually end.

The Atlas Project says so.

So apparently X Play showed some of the Rock Band 2 song selection screen tonight. Besides seeing Rock Band 1 DLC on it, there were some new songs (the artists are all presumed, since only the song titles were shown):

* Dream Theater - “Panic Attack” (could also be Finger Eleven)
* System of a Down - “Chop Suey”
* Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Give It Away”
* Foo Fighters - “Everlong”
* Kim Wilde - “Kids in America”
* Motörhead - “Ace of Spades”
* Cheap Trick - “Hello There”
* Journey - “Any Way You Want It”
* The Who - “Pinball Wizard”

yea with them announcing the DLC will also be compatible with this version is a direct kick in the balls to Guitar Hero who announced their shit wasnt.

God damn I'm gonna sing the Hell out of "Any Way You Want It".

I have to.

I hated the RB guitar. My GH Les Paul better work with this. :mad:

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Originally Posted by What Would Kevin Do? (Post 2206420)

Not really? Yeah, the whole timed exclusive thing sucks, but a 3 month wait isn't the end of the world.

360 has a September release with a PS3 release later in the year. It's highly unlikely that it will be a 3 month wait. I'd say the beginning of November is the absolute LATEST, because they're going to want to get it out for the Holiday rush.

Note this isn't a timed exclusive, it's merely coming out sooner for one than the others. The difference may seem trivial, but if it were really a timed exclusive, they wouldn't be hyping it up for other systems, as that would be counterproductive.

So yeah, PS3 owners have to wait a little, but they're hardly screwed. Not that I really care, since I'll have mine at launch on the 360. But it's not going to be that big a deal.

http://kotaku.com/397936/rumor-dueli...d-2-tracklists

Adding onto what was previously posted.

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1 AC/DC Let There Be Rock
2 AFI Girl's Gone Grey
3 Alanis Morissette You Oughta Know
4 Alice in Chains Man in the Box
5 Allman Brothers Ramblin' Man
6 Avenged Sevenfold Almost Easy
7 Bad Company Shooting Star
8 Beastie Boys So Whatcha Want
9 Beck E-Pro
10 Bikini Kill Rebel Girl
11 Billy Idol White Wedding Pt I
12 Blondie One Way or Another
13 Bob Dylan Tangled Up in Blue
14 Bon Jovi Livin' on a Prayer
15 Cheap Trick Hello There
16 Devo Uncontrollable Urge
17 Dinosaur Jr Feel the Pain
18 Disturbed Down with the Sickness
19 Donnas, The New Kid in School
20 Dream Theater Panic Attack
21 Duran Duran Hungry Like the Wolf
22 Elvis Costello Pump it Up
23 Fleetwood Mac Go Your Own Way
24 Foo Fighters Everlong
25 Go-Go's, The We Got the Beat
26 Grateful Dead, The Alabama Getaway
27 Guess Who, The American Woman
28 Guns N' Roses Shackler's Revenge
29 Interpol PDA
30 Jane's Addiction Mountain Song
31 Jethro Tull Aqualung
32 Jimmy Eat World The Middle
33 Joan Jett Bad Reputation
34 Journey Anyway You Want It
35 Judas Priest Painkiller
36 Kansas Carry On Wayward Son
37 L7 Pretend We're Dead
38 Lacuna Coil Our Truth
39 Linkin Park One Step Closer
40 Lit My Own Worst Enemy
41 Lush De-Luxe
42 Mastodon Colony of Birchmen
43 Megadeth Peace Sells
44 Metallica Battery
45 Mighty Mighty Bosstones Where'd You Go
46 Modest Mouse Float On
47 Motorhead Ace of Spades
48 Muffs, The Kids in America
49 Nirvana Drain You
50 Norman Greenbaum Spirit in the Sky
51 Offspring, The Come Out & Play (Keep 'em Seperated)
52 Panic at the Disco Nine in the Afternoon
53 Paramore That's What You Get
54 Pearl Jam Alive
55 Presidents of the USA Lump
56 Rage Against the Machine Testify
57 Ratt Round & Round
58 Red Hot Chili Peppers Give it Away
59 Replacements, The Alex Chilton
60 Rise Against Give it All
61 Rush The Trees
62 Silversun Pickups Lazy Eye
63 Smashing Pumpkins Today
64 Social Distortion I Was Wrong
65 Sonic Youth Teenage Riot
66 Soundgarden Spoonman
67 Squeeze Cool for Cats
68 Steely Dan Bodhitsattva
69 Steve Miller Band Rock'n Me
70 Survivor Eye of the Tiger
71 System of a Down Chop Suey
72 Talking Heads Psycho Killer
73 Tenacious D Master Exploder
74 Testament Souls of Black
75 Who, The Pinball Wizard
BONUS SONGS (all HMX bands)
76 Abnormality Visions
77 Anarchy Club Get Clean
78 Bang Camaro Night Lies
79 Breaking Wheel Shoulder to the Plow
80 Libyans, The Neighborhood
81 Main Drag, The A Jagged Georgeous Winter.
82 Speck Conventional Lover
83 Sterns, The Supreme Girl
84 That Handsome Devil Rob the Prez-O-Dent

And then from Loading Reality, which notes that this numbers only about 60. Some of the tracks are the same as the list above, just in a different order. "Keep in mind, some of these could easily be DLC that's in the works," Loading Reality writes. A wise caveat.

1) Tangled Up in Blue (Bob Dylan)
2) Bad to the Bone (George Thorogood)
3) We've Got the Beat (Go-Gos)
4) Bad Reputation (Joan Jett)
5) Pinball Wizard (The Who)
6) Dammit (Blink 182)
7) That's What You Get (Paramore)
8) The Trees (Rush)
9) Ace of Spades (Motorhead)
10) Chop Suey (System of a Down)
11) Testify (Rage Against the Machine)
12) Spirit In the Sky (Norman Greenbaum)
13) Ramblin' Man (Allman Brothers)
14) Rebel Girl (Bikini Kill)
15) Eye of the Tiger (Survivor)
16) Panic Attack (Dream Theater)
17) Everlong (Foo Fighters)
18) One Step Closer (Linkin' Park)
19) Lump (Presidents of the USA)
20) Come Out and Play (Offspring)
21) Drain You (Nirvana)
22) Carry On Wayward Son (Kansas)
23) Peace Sells (Megadeath)
24) Souls of Black (Testament)
25) Livin' On a Prayer (Bon Jovi)
26) Round and Round (Ratt)
27) New Kid In School (The Donnas)
28) Alright Now (Free)
29) Today (Smashing Pumpkins)
30) Man In the Box (Alice In Chains)
31) Any Way You Want It (Journey)
32) Holiday In Cambodia (Dead Kennedys)
33) Give It Away (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
34) White Wedding (Billy Idol)
35) Hello There (Cheap Trick)
36) Cool for Cats (Squeeze)
37) Psycho Killer (Talking Heads)
38) ? (Devo)
39) One Way or Another (Blondie)
40) De-luxe (Lush) [dare to dream, shoegaze in Rock Band!]
41) Push It (Static-X)
42) Pump It Up (Elvis Costello)
43) Master Exploder (Tenacious D)
44) Bandages (Hot Hot Heat)
45) PDA (Interpol)
46) My Own Worst Enemy (Lit)
47) Float On (Modest Mouse)
48) Aqualung (Jethro Tull)
49) Spoonman (Soundgarden)
50) Bodhisattva (Steely Dan)
51) Suffer (Bad Religion)
52) I Was Wrong (Social Distortion)
53) American Woman (The Guess Who)
56) You Oughta Know (Alanis Morrissette)
57) Mountain Song (Jane's Addiction)
58) Stop! (Against Me)
59) Hungry Like the Wolf (Duran Duran)
60) Alabama Getaway (Grateful Dead)

Sweet. Man in the Box and Alive.

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Also, an IGN Insider interview (transcript provided by reader Max) let slip that buyers of Rock Band 2 will have access to all of the songs off the original Rock Band disc, available as free DLC. Full details on both after the jump.

If that's true then Rock Band 1 will become a coaster.

Those track lists are amazingly hot.

NINE IN THE AFTERNOON :cool:!!!!!!!

:$

Oh man, Eye of the Tiger!

OH MY FUCKING GOD :love:

Hope that track list is at least 80% true, would be awesome if it was.

Am I the only one looking forward to (trying ) singing Master Exploder

And OMG Battery !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

I'm skeptical about some of these. Like Man in the Box has cussing and some questionable lyrics.

Seriously, I would love record song.

EYE OF THE TIIIIIIIIIIGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRR

Questionable song lyrics are pretty ridiculous anyway. For the Pixies Doolittle, they don't censor "Whores at the door, whore in my bed" by the censor "got a tattooed tit". I'm sure they could make it a T rating somehow.