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Rock Band Track Pack: Vol. 1 PS2
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Rock Band Track Pack Volume 1 is a musical expansion to Rock Band, the collaborative, competitive, and single player music game. Rock Band lets you and your friends form your own band and live out your rock and roll fantasies to music’s greatest soundtrack.
Created by Harmonix, Rock Band lets gamers to experience music, giving players the chance to rock out in the shoes of the biggest guitarists, bassists, drummers and singers of all time – as a solo superstar or as part of a hard rocking band.
Rock Band Track Pack Volume 1 is a standalone software product that allows owners of Rock Band Special Edition or Rock Band peripherals to keep the party going with 20 hit songs from the pantheon of rock music, hand-picked with care by Harmonix.
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Featured Rock Band Track Pack: Vol. 1
- A musical expansion to Rock Band, the collaborative, competitive, and single player music game
- Rock Band lets you and your friends form your own band and live out your rock and roll fantasies to music’s greatest soundtrack
- A fully functional game with all the great features of Rock Band
- Solo and Band Tour Mode, Quickplay, Tug of War, Score Dual, and song unlock progression
- 20 of the most popular tracks in Rock Band history distilled to perfection onto one disc, all utilizing the original master recordings.
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WTF did they do to the drums?,
First things first: The song selection is pretty good, and the vocal, guitar, and bass aspects of the songs are great, pretty much identical in function and execution to the original game. The drums however? Fuhgettaboudit.
My first gripe: you don’t have to earn overdrive. They give the fills to you automagically. This kinda defeats the whole purpose; overdrive is there to help you with the hard parts after you did well in the easier parts. I guess this is a strange gripe, but really annoys me.
My second–and much more significant problem–with the modified drum play is whatever they did to the bass drum (the pedal). I can’t tell if they changed the timing, or if it registers a beat differently, but either way playing the drums in RB:TP1 is an absolutely unfun chore. Songs that should be easy, fun, and a blast to play on medium (“Buddy Holly” and “All The Small Things”) lose all their potential for enjoyment as soon as you hit the pedal for the first time: you’ll spend the rest of the song concentrating on not messing up the beat rather then rocking out with your friends.
I’m not sure what possessed Harmonix to make these changes; I’m going to have to try RB2 before I buy it, in case these changes make it into the sequel (boy, I hope they don’t). That said, if you are the singer, guitarist, or bassist for your “rock band” I can’t recommend this Track Pack enough; the songs are a blast to play, and there’s something in there for everyone.
However I pity my fellow drummers.
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|Nice stand alone Rock Band “expansion” pack, is something missing?,
The positives are that this is overall a good selection of the most popular Rock Band downloads. I was happy to see that I could keep track of my quickplay Bass scores locally unlike RB1, and that the conversion down from the PS3 game wasn’t jarring, in fact this game feels and looks quite smooth for a PS2 release. The vocals are much easier to hit pitchwise, and the expert and hard modes feel more balanced on all the instruments, as do transitions and chords. The impact of a mere 20 songs is lessened by the multiple career paths and certain ones are just terrific to revisit (Interstate Love Song, Moonage Daydream, Truckin’) on drums, guitar and vocals. The lack of BIG ROCK FINISHES is perplexing and I feel like something is missing mostly about 5 or six songs at least or some kind of unlockable content or extra credits song. The GHIII guitar works great on this game on the PS2(except for the effects switch, which offers new sounds this time around) and the RB DRUMS< GUITAR<MIC all work on either the PS2 or PS3. I am hoping for some more volumes before or after RB2 comes out. BTW, What do we have to do to get an open drum/mic mode as an extra?
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