spatular Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 Was quite looking forward to this, initial impressions are that it's pretty good but not as god as it could have been....... it plays exactly like a cross between rock band and amplitude, you play guitar/bass/drums/vocals tracks at the same time, complete a section on one track without missing anything and that track plays itself for a while, so it's like spinning plates trying to keep everything going. this can make it pretty hard as you have to hit everything in the section, but it has the advantage that if you get an easy part of the track done at the right time you won't need to play it while it's hard - just like in amplitude. you have 4 health bars just like in multiplayer rock band wich is confusing to start with, but as there are only 4 tracks you can see most of them at all times and they flash red when they're in trouble. also star power works like in rock band and can be used to save youreslf twice before it's game over. when there's a solo your forced to play it but it works more like rock band so luckely you don't have to hit all the notes in thoes sections. all this gameplay stuff works really well and is good fun, the controls are surprisingly intuitive and didn't take long to get into, although i've played a lot of frequency/amplitude/rock band in the past so that probably helps. i started on hard, struggled at first and failed a few, then got into it and didn't have much trouble passing the early songs on hard, only getting 3 stars, then put the unlock all songs cheat on and played some less talk more rokk, expecting to fail but just passed, then failed miserably on laid to rest, did some of the early ones on expert and passed them ok too, but ones later on were crazy - instant fail! regarding the song selection, i think it's a really good selection from previous games but tbh would have preffered something completely different like the amplitude/frequency soundtracks, i really wanted this to be amplitude 2. onto the bad points - i don't like the removal of the main single player mode from rock band 2 - and this continues here. one of the best points about harmonix previous games was the great difficulty curve, if you were stuck you could go back and try and improve your scores/get more stars on previous songs and it felt like a real game with a goal at the end. this only has band world tour and quick play, band world tour is ok, and when you get so far, if it's anything like the console versions, you can pretty much play what you want, but the repetition playing stuff over and over at the start (again i'm assuming, i haven't played enough to know if it's the same) can get pretty dull. the saving grace is the easily accessible unlock all switch which lets you play whatever you want in quickplay, which is exactly how i play rb2. i can see me playing this now and then in quick play and enjoying it but not sticking at it like i would if it had an old school single player mode. also it's a lot better portable effort than the DS guitar hero games with the strap on buttons. anyone else getting/got it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimboxy Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 yeah i'll be picking it up, probably next week at payday.Looking forward to it, hearing a lot of positive things so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandsomeDead Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 Yeah, I have it. I'm really liking it and I'm a fan of RB2s career mode so I was happy to see it again, I think it fleshes the game out a little more. I still haven't got round to playing Harmonix' earlier games because I've never been able to find a nice, fairly priced copy so this is my first time with this type of game. I started on Medium but found that a little to easy so I bumped up to Hard and I'm enjoying it more, easier difficulties have a vague likeness in the note chart to the music and I sometimes find it harder to do than a more complex note chart because it makes more sense and makes it easier to follow. I can't say I'm happy with the soundtrack as there is very little that isn't on the console versions and while the gameplay is different you still get the feeling you're covering the same ground. I think it's a good game, deffinitely one thats hard to put down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatular Posted June 19, 2009 Author Share Posted June 19, 2009 I can't say I'm happy with the soundtrack as there is very little that isn't on the console versions and while the gameplay is different you still get the feeling you're covering the same ground. yeah i don't know what to think about that, on one hand it'd be better to have different stuff, but then i'd probably be more annoyed if i couldn't play it on the console versions. not sure what it's going for at the moment, but i think amplitude has always been quite pricy, worth it though. frequency isn't that costly though is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandsomeDead Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Maybe it's Amplitude I've seen, not sure if I've ever seen frequancy. This game is giving me massive cramp anyway. I'm starting to try the odd song on expert though I only three star them, I did 100% Float On on Hard which prompted my premature leap to Expert. Is it just me of is five starring songs quite difficult? All it takes is a couple of fuck ups which intern can fuck up the whole thing for about thirty seconds in a song. A few mistakes in the console games isn't nearly as damaging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatular Posted June 20, 2009 Author Share Posted June 20, 2009 nice work on the 100% i'm finding it the same with the stars, usually get 3 or 4, think i've only got one 5* on hard. i found i had to hold the psp funny for it to feel ok but that gave me problems hitting the sholder buttons. the scoring is more like the old games, like you say it's pretty harsh, i recon you'll get a lot more points for getting 100%, not that i've got anywhere near that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RivaOni Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Really enjoying this, enjoyed Amplitude too although I wasn't overly keen on that games track lists. Don't think I'll be making the jump up from Medium any time soon though, struggled really badly on Buddy Holly on Hard lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoobie Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 I got the download version of this for my new shiny PSPGo. You buy the game for just over three quid and you get five songs with it - ABC, a Foo Fighters one, Blink 182 one, Weezer and one other I cant remember and then you can buy extra tracks if you want - I have picked up two so far. I will no doubt get a few more when my cheap PSN card turns up. Really enjoying it as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craymen Edge Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 I got the download version of this for my new shiny PSPGo. You buy the game for just over three quid and you get five songs with it - ABC, a Foo Fighters one, Blink 182 one, Weezer and one other I cant remember and then you can buy extra tracks if you want That's quite an interesting approach. I think 5 tracks a starter is a little stingy though. I've got the UMD version, I really enjoy it and as a purely single-player game I probably prefer it to Rock Band 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoobie Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Found a problem with the downloaded version - I am playing through the tour mode and I tried to play a gig last night but it told me I needed to download more tracks before I could perform. Cheeky bastards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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