Rock Band, the popular rhythm game from EA is now coming to iPhone and iPod Touch. The game is yet to be approved by the Apple and is expected to be available on the App Store this week.
From what is known, the iPhone game is pretty comprehensive compared to the other rhythm games that are already available on the iPhone, including Tapulous' Tap Tap Revenge.
Quite similar to the console version of Rock Band, the iPhone version of the game shall provide iMusicians to choose between four modes - vocals, drums, bass and guitar. The game is played by tapping the screen on the right notes. Each of the four modes come in three levels of difficulty, intuitively named Easy, Medium and Hard.
Impressively, the multiplayer version of the game lets you connect with up to three other players via Bluetooth to play alongside. Additionally, players can also invite their friends via Facebook Connect to play with them. The availability of these different options to connect with friends seems to be a well thought out strategy to get the application spread virally among friends.
There are twenty tracks that come integrated with the game (The list is mentioned at the bottom of this article). Five of these tracks can be unlocked via the World tour mode. In addition to this, the game also comes with an in-game store where you may purchase additional tracks.
The price of the app is not yet clear and should only be known when the app finally becomes available for download sometime next week. However, considering that the main competitor, Tap Tap Revenge is available for 99¢, and also with EA, the iPhone app developers, standing to earn much more through purchase of tracks, expect the cost of the app to be pretty much in the same range.
Full track listing:
- “Attack” – 30 Seconds To Mars
- “Girls Not Grey” – AFI
- “Move Along” – All American Rejects
- “Sabotage” – Beastie Boys
- “All The Small Things” – Blink-182
- “Hanging on the Telephone” – Blondie
- “Learn To Fly” – Foo Fighters
- “Everlong” – Foo Fighters
- “Bad to The Bone” – George Thorogood & the Destroyers
- “Hymn 43″ – Jethro Tull
- “Bad Reputation” – Joan Jett
- “Simple Man” – Lynard Skynard
- “Ace of Spades ‘08″ – Motorhead
- “Debaser” – Pixies
- “Ladybug” – Presidents of The United States of America
- “Give It All” – Rise Against
- “Lazy Eye” – Silversun Pick Ups
- “Cherub Rock” – Smashing Pumpkins
- “Take The Money and Run” – Steve Miller Band
- “We Got The Beat” – The Go Go’s
You can checkout the demo of the iPhone game below:
It looks pretty good. Do you think Rock Band could displace Tap Tap Revenge, one of the most popular iPhone games on the App Store?
[via MobileCrunch]
can't wait for apple to approve Rock Band
Simply: Amazing
IM not too sure I would buy this…Why not let the person actually sing the vocals? The fun part about playing Rock Band is using the guitar or drums..Not just touching the screen…I think ill pass..
looks amazing!
but one question.
why for vocals could they not use the built-in mic to make it just like the console version?
that part seems pretty lame to me.
That’s a good thing to hear! Rockband is a very nice game. Can't wait to see the idea of an online virtual band on the iPhone, pretty sweet. ;D Uhmmm..I also hope that someday hardcore games (like WoW or Aion) will also invade our iPhones.
needs to have alot of more metal songs…
I hate Tap Tap Revenge to be honest. I don't like the most songs and I hate having to shake my phone back and forth or side to side. Their success only came from coping Rock Band/Guitar Hero. There's even a jailbreak theme available for Tap Tap Revenge to get a more of that Guitar Hero feeling.
I strongly recommend Guitar Rock2 from Gameloft. It is a huge Guitar Hero rip off but fun to play. Cool rock songs and none of that annoying side to side junk. It only has guitar and drums and I have to admit the drums on this Rockband app look better than the drums on Guitar Rock2. The only thing I don't really like on Rockband is the vocals or bass but I guess if you can multiplayer you'll need all four. I would add actual vocals though.
yes