Monday, May 5, 2008

A "Good Week" for Rock Band / Guitar Hero III DLC


So Rock Band tomorrow is getting "It Hurts" by Angels & Airwaves, "Date with the Night" by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and "This Ain't A Scene, But An Arms Race" by Fall Out Boy as a 3-song pack for the usual 440 MS Points as well as being available separately. Pretty decent pack this week considering more of today's stuff in this game with FOB being my pick for the week because it is a popular song and people who don't play Rock Band normally looking for awesome music will get a kick out of it like 30 Seconds to Mars and All-American Rejects on Christmas Day. Then again, that Yeah Yeah Yeahs song is pretty good too and of course, Harmonix could of picked a better Angels & Airwaves song (I would pick "The Adventure," but that's the obvious choice). The FOB song is going to be funny on vocals when I have RB parties.

UPDATE - Post now updated with a "This Ain't A Scene..." Expert Guitar run
UPDATE 2 - Now updated with "Stockholm Syndrome" FC Expert run



Guitar Hero III this Thursday gets a 3-song pack of Muse songs (Yes!!!!) with "Stockholm Syndrome" headlining the pack. The other two songs are from their last album, Black Holes & Revelations, "Supermassive Black Hole" and "Exo-Politics." For once, Activision and Red Octane may have won this round putting out a Muse pack, but obviously the potential these songs have on Rock Band is crazy and better. At least, the DLC for both games this week is a good break from the masterpiece that is GTA IV (review later this month).


Even though more Muse is in GHIII, Rock Band soon will get Muse with one of their breakthrough hits, "Hysteria," for the European release next month (or the end of this month) and this song rules. If I was Harmonix putting out their own Muse pack to counter GHIII's song choices, I would pick "Hysteria" obviously since that's confirmed now, "Time is Running Out." and "Starlight." These songs are perfectly fit for Rock Band I think with the available instruments, so make it happen Harmonix!!

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