The Beatles Rock Band

robby^5

Surprised there's no thread for this yet! This is one of my most anticipated games of the year and so far is shaping up to be the best Rock Band game yet. The peripherals are the best looking I've ever seen for one of these games, they're $99 a pop but I reckon I'll pick up the The Rickenbacker 325 (Lennons guitar)




A really cool addition to the gameplay is being able to sing three part harmony with up to three microphones. If you ask me the only thing Rock Band is missing now to make it a complete band experience is a keyboard peripheral As for songs, this game is going to be worth every penny and just thinking about some of the songs makes me want to wet myself... off the top of my head I'd love to see:

I Want to Hold Your Hand
Please Please Me
Strawberry Fields Forever
Twist and Shout
A Hard Day's Night
I'm a Loser
Help!
Ticket to Ride
Yellow Submarine
I Am the Walrus
She Loves You
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Dear Prudence
All You Need Is Love
Helter Skelter
Come Together
Here Comes the Sun
With a Little Help From My Friends
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Hey Bulldog
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Dont let me down
Get Back

The choices are pretty much endless, it seems they have access to every album from Please Please Me to Abbey Road, so the only album missing is Let it Be, which I really (really ****ing really) hope songs from it are available as DLC, after all Apple were the label and they're on board already.

So what's everyone's thoughts on this game?

Dreddybajs

Doubt Apple will let DLC be available, as I think it's doubtful that the songs will be even exportable into RB/RB2. Still happy to get any Beatles though, even if it means disc-swapping.

D4RK ONION

I don't know if The Beatles will transfer over well, but then, I'm not overly familiar with their stuff.

cedomination

Paul Mcartney had the coolest guitar and they didn't make a controller for it..bah.
I have completely changed my opinion on this since the last time it was mentioned here,I now love the Beatles.

D4RK ONION

You can't deny though that those controllers look THE BOMB!

ShawnRaven

D4RK ONION wrote: »

You can't deny though that those controllers look THE BOMB!

About the only reason to buy that game!
And the possible opportunity to play Day Tripper.

D4RK ONION

Not a Beatles fan? Me neither. We need a Phil Collins game...

grumpytrousers

cedomination wrote: »

Paul Mcartney had the coolest guitar and they didn't make a controller for it..bah.
I have completely changed my opinion on this since the last time it was mentioned here,I now love the Beatles.

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=74159

this suggests otherwise - search page for 'höfner'
you might not, however, be able to buy it separately.

ShawnRaven

D4RK ONION wrote: »

Not a Beatles fan? Me neither. We need a Phil Collins game...

You'd go through drumkits to beat the band.
Rock Band - Rush!

Now we're on to a winner. Because when Moving Pictures is not enough...

D4RK ONION

Rock Band- 2112

I would pay full price for just that song... OH GOD, I just wet myself... Marry me Neil Peart!

cedomination

ShawnRaven wrote: »

You'd go through drumkits to beat the band.
Rock Band - Rush!

Now we're on to a winner. Because when Moving Pictures is not enough...

With the option to hook up 4 drumkits for a more accurate Neil Peart drumming experience.

TestTransmission

This game is going to be great,apparently theres gonna be one or two unheard new songs.

ShawnRaven

cedomination wrote: »

With the option to hook up 4 drumkits for a more accurate Neil Peart drumming experience.

Unfortunately there's two things wrong with that idea.

1) There's only one Neil Peart
2) Only an octopus would be able to play it!

D4RK ONION

cedomination wrote: »

With the option to hook up 4 drumkits for a more accurate Neil Peart drumming experience.

That would be so cool. Tell them to cancel these "Beatles" characters, whoever they are, let's get to work Rock Band Rush. RBR, even the acronym is cool!

robinph

cedomination wrote: »

Paul Mcartney had the coolest guitar and they didn't make a controller for it..bah.

But it would have to be a wrong handed one to be properly authentic.

ShawnRaven

robinph wrote: »

But it would have to be a wrong handed one to be properly authentic.

I'm surprised they haven't come up with lefty controllers yet. Friend of mine is a lefty and she curses the fact that the whammy bar gets in the way of her playing.

cedomination

robinph wrote: »

But it would have to be a wrong handed one to be properly authentic.

Left handed =/= wrong handed

ShawnRaven

cedomination wrote: »

Left handed =/= wrong handed

You do not want to tell that to this girl, not if you value your limbs.

robinph

cedomination wrote: »

Left handed =/= wrong handed

I think you meant !=

McCartney played back to front so that they could share the same mic without clashing guitars and still face the same direction. And look how out of place George looks here, if he wasn't there is would have been a lovely picture:


It's all clearly just done for show.

cedomination

ShawnRaven wrote: »

You do not want to tell that to this girl, not if you value your limbs.

I thought that meant "Left-handed does not equal Wrong-handed",what does =/= actually mean then?

cedomination

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpXz6TFUbis

they made a bass controller

This looks incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJKoowNG3qU

sd08

WOW. That was absolutely incredible.:eek: This was already a must get, now I can't wait!!:D
Just for this Rock Band definitely wins it for me.

Basq

Looks absolutely fantastic tbh!

cedomination

Some stuff worth noting,Now allows up to 3 vocalists and they took out the improv drum fills.

Dreddybajs

Abbey Road available as DLC after launch - cannot wait.

sd08

This game just seems to get better and better.

ongarite

Dreddybajs wrote: »

Abbey Road available as DLC after launch - cannot wait.

Only for Rock Band: The Beatles disc though. Looks like this is going to be the disc to split the RB userbase.
No track exports from the disc & its own regular released DLC.

Instant buy for me though. The visual style is fantastic & the UI design is very 50-60s with fret colours now different along with highway design.

ongarite

2 part 3 song live demo by Harmonix.
Some things mentioned are no fail mode selectable from quick play screen, playing on easy activates no fail for that player. Definately tuning the game for Beatles fans who have never played RB or GH games before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GenaWORypRw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZGSCTBzlFQ

cedomination

The Intro vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ftej190O4U

ParalysedBeaver

Gamespot The Beatles: Rock Band stage demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPkVNC-h_TE

Mr E

Love the look of this game. What I like about it is that there'll be no songs with long boring repetitive power chord sequences, and it'll be a definite fun party game.

cedomination

http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/preorderclub/inc/swf/assets/mp4/Trailer2.mp4

New trailer, if you have problems viewing it try right click-Save As

Can't wait to play the Sgt.Pepper/Magical Mystery Tour stuff

ongarite

Tracks announced in the last 2 days:

* "Back in the U.S.S.R."
* "Can't Buy Me Love"
* "Day Tripper"
* "Eight Days a Week"
* "Get Back"
* "Here Comes the Sun"
* "I Am the Walrus"
* "I Feel Fine"
* "I Saw Her Standing There"
* "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
* "Octopus's Garden"
* "Paperback Writer"
* "Revolution"
* "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
* "Taxman"
* "Twist and Shout"
* "Within You Without You"
* "Yellow Submarine"

cedomination

Loads of those were in the trailers though so it was pretty obvious.

SeantheMan

Its going to be the greatest game ever !!
Possibly one of the greatest days ever !! :P

Ill be booking it off from work, I already have the Rockband set, and an extra GH3 guitar, but I will be buying the Beatles set too...just cause its the beatles

Though I cant believe they put in Within You Without You, I only dislike 2-3 out of the total 200+ songs the beatles wrote..and thats 1 of them.
The setlist is excellent, though they could have chosen some better ones.

Hopefully the content gets released over time, does michael jacksons Sony or someone still have rights to a lot of the songs ?

Looks like Ticket to ride has been added

http://www.eurogamer.net/videos/rock-band-beatles-ticket-to-ride

calex71

you know they will just hold of on some of the best track just so they can sell them to us as dlc :mad:

I cant wait for the game to be released.

I have a Rockband set but Ill probably end up getting the Beatles set anyway

Calex71 - What songs are you hoping to be included in the game???

D4RK ONION

Personally, I've decided not to bother getting this. Mainly because it's considered a "separate game" and you wont be able to import any of the songs to the other RB games. Also, because I'm not mad about The Beatles.

Basq

D4RK ONION wrote: »

Also, because I'm not mad about The Beatles.

"Oh... no... you.... dih.... hint!"

:eek:

D4RK ONION

Yes, believe it or not! Also, I'm not confident on how well the music will transfer to charts. I mean, what do you put in the final tier by way of the most difficult song on drums or guitar? On the other hand, it'll be a vox player's dream!

cedomination

I think the cool thing about this is that it's not going to be hard but you know the charts and songs will be fun anyway.

calex71

cedomination wrote: »

I think the cool thing about this is that it's not going to be hard but you know the charts and songs will be fun anyway.

That's why I play many of the songs, recently got the blink 182 and rise against sogs, and some old chili peppers songs , not the hardest of songs but very fun to play.

Reason for not being able to export the tracks is down to the vocal harmonies i think. But im sure they could have dome something there perhaps.

Maybe they will be available for RB2 separately.


Drive my car isnt on the list, the lack of that one song in the game is a deal breaker for me

ShooterSF

Good band and it looks good but as said above I just don't want something I can't import. Why not just do the ac/dc approach and let one transfer per disc? I just can't see me playing 3 or 4 songs from the same band and not wanting to mix it up a bit. Shame

ShooterSF

ShooterSF wrote: »

Good band and it looks good but as said above I just don't want something I can't import. Why not just do the ac/dc approach and let one transfer per disc? I just can't see me playing 3 or 4 songs from the same band and not wanting to mix it up a bit. Shame

Ye I can see were your coming from. I like Metallica but I'm not a huge fan so I didn't bother with Guitar Hero:Metallica.


BUT


I'm a huge Beatles fan so this is one of my most anticipated games of the year.

ongarite

Don't understand the whinning about non-export of the tracks.
This game is a Beatles game first and foremost, nothing to do with Rock Band franchise really, just the Harmonix guys developing it.
I'm sure it has very very strict guidelines as to what is allowable to do with the Bealtes brand.

There is no way, Bealtes/Apple Corp would allow you to export tracks and then play them with your RB2 characters; such a thing would never ever be allowed. Same with for the settings, stages & dreamscapes; to Apple Corp, without these its not "The Bealtes" game.

That this game is actually being made and weeks away from release is amazing knowing how closely the Bealtes brand is guarded.

Back to the game itself, really looking forward to it because its a game even non-GH/RB player would love to try out at least. Friends and family will know the vocals and beats at least and can have great fun on vocals.

ShooterSF

ongarite wrote: »

Don't understand the whinning about non-export of the tracks.
This game is a Beatles game first and foremost, nothing to do with Rock Band franchise really, just the Harmonix guys developing it.
I'm sure it has very very strict guidelines as to what is allowable to do with the Bealtes brand.

There is no way, Bealtes/Apple Corp would allow you to export tracks and then play them with your RB2 characters; such a thing would never ever be allowed. Same with for the settings, stages & dreamscapes; to Apple Corp, without these its not "The Bealtes" game.

That this game is actually being made and weeks away from release is amazing knowing how closely the Bealtes brand is guarded.

Back to the game itself, really looking forward to it because its a game even non-GH/RB player would love to try out at least. Friends and family will know the vocals and beats at least and can have great fun on vocals.

That's a fair point and if you're a big beatles fan I can understand getting it but for us casual fans who would like to play a beatles song every now and again but wouldn't bother swapping discs it's a no go. Hell if they announced a Queen one with the same restrictions I'd be queueing outside the store now.
It's a shame they can't do generic DLC for us rockbanders who aren't *that* into the beatles is all (I know that's not harmonix's fault btw).

I'm a bit disappointed that if you buy the full band set you get the Paul McCartney bass in it rather then getting to choose what guitar/bass you want.

I really want one of the other guitars but there's no way I'm buying the full set then spending another 100 or so on one of the guitars I want.

EDIT: The McCartney bass does look class though

Here's the track list for the game at last. Some chap posted it up on the official rockband forum from some video game magazine with pictures to prove it.


Full Song List:
ONE SONG IS EXCLUDED AS A SURPRISE.

Singles
I Want To Hold Your Hand
I Feel Fine
Day Tripper
Paperback Writer
Revolution
Don't Let Me Down

Please Please Me (1963)
I Saw Her Standing There
Boys
Do You Want To Know A Secret
Twist and Shout

With the Beatles (1963)
I Wanna Be Your Man

A Hard Day's Night (1964)
A Hard Day's Night
Can't Buy Me Love

Beatles For Sale (1964)
Eight Days a Week

Help! (1965)
Ticket To Ride

Rubber Soul (1965)
Drive My Car
I'm Looking Through You
If I Needed Someone

Revolver (1966)
Taxman
Yellow Submarine
And Your Bird Can Sing

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help From My Friends
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Getting Better
Good Morning Good Morning

Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
I Am The Walrus
Hello Goodbye

The Beatles (White Album) (1968)
Dear Prudence
Back In the U.S.S.R.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Birthday
Helter Skelter

Yellow Submarine (1969)
Hey Bulldog

Abbey Road (1969)
Come Together
Something
Octopus's Garden
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Here Comes the Sun

Let It Be (1970)
Dig a Pony
I Me Mine
I Got a Feeling
Get Back

Love (2006)
Within You Without You/ Tomorrow Never Knows



Very surprised that Help, She loves you and Let it be aren't on the list.


But overall I'm happy with the on disc songs and of course there will be DLC to come.


Interesting to see what the surprise song is.......

ongarite

Deleted User wrote: »

Very surprised that Help, She loves you and Let it be aren't on the list.

Going to be DLC for sure. Gotta have some really well known tunes for DLC so everyone will get them.

grumpytrousers

Deleted User wrote: »

Very surprised that Help, She loves you and Let it be aren't on the list.

In fairness, Let it Be is effectively a Macca solo track. Most of it is just a plodding 4/4 beat, fairly run of the mill piano chords and so on. The Solo might require a bit of work, but that'd be it.

Course, for that added 'frisson' of reality, you should be able to do a George on it and echo the melody on the guitar from the start and have Paul get stroppy with him and then George walk out in the middle of the song.

Maybe on the DLC...