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Beatles Rock Band Game Is Great For Improving Singing & Drumming

January 3rd, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Playstation 2 Games, Playstation 3 Games, Playstation Games
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If you are anything like I am then you do not really care about video games. In fact, I hate video games. In my opinon they are a complete waste of time. So then why am I writing about this video game? Because in my opinion Beatles Rock Band is something well beyond just a game, it’s a real interactive musical experience.

I am not really talking about the guitar thing. In fact, in my opinion the guitar part of the game is lame because it has nothing to do with playing a real guitar and little to do with the music. It has zilch to do with guitar playing because playing a real six string is about 100 times more complex than simply pressing a few buttons and it has very little to do with the music because I have found that the changes in the game rarely change in time with any chord changes in the music.

The drumming and the singing parts of the game are what I find really interesting and important. These aspects are directly related to doing these things “in real life” and they are also both obviously related to the music that you’re performing

If you sing a song in key and in time then you will do well. No you don’t have to sing the lyrics (you can just hum) but I don’t think that’s a big deal. Musically what is essential is hitting the right notes at the right time. I think Beatles Rock Band is really a really great way to to work on your ability to sing. This is even more true with The Beatles Rock Band than with other Rock Band games because it includes harmony singing too.

When you do the drumming on the highest level you are really hitting every single drum hit that is in the actual recording! I won’t claim it’s just like playing real drums, but it’s close enough to be very effective for practicing. In fact, I’ve heard of people moving quite smoothly from playing Rock Band drums into playing real drums.

I definitely recomend The Beatles Rock Band as a great purchase for any big Beatles fan along with (obviously) The Beatles Remastered Box Sets & The Beatles USB.

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Game to watch out for this summer

June 24th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Playstation 2 Games, Playstation 3 Games, Playstation Games

With not many good games released so far and after a little bit of a dry spell, I thought this post would make sense to ensure that people are aware of the upcoming games for the rest of the year.

There have only been a handful of great game releases so far, some of which include X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena but this is all about to pick up and the next few months are certainly something to get excited about as you will see below.

The first large release is the next game in the Guitar Hero series, Guitar Hero Metallica which is due for release in just a few days. Whether you are a metal fan, guitar hero fan or just a Metallica fan, you will want this game because it contains a great setlist whatever you are a fan of.

Another game to be aware of in the near future is Terminator Salvation which is being released the same day as the game above, Guitar Hero Metallica. This game follows the storyline of the upcoming Terminator film, Terminator Salvation. It’s difficult to say whether the game will be up to scratch because it’s a movie game and the quality of these can sometimes dip.

Now, heading into the beginning of June, you can look forward to seeing some of the following:

The Sims 3, although I am not at all a fan of these games, no doubt this one will be massively popular and you can expect everything you love from the original games, aswell as a whole bundle of new features to discover.

The next game is Prototype, something slightly different with this one but hopefully it will be well made a fun to play. It would have been nice to get a demo of this game priar to release, however, this close to release date I don’t think we’ll be seeing one.

Every Batman fan will want to get this game, Batman Arkham Asylum. The new Batman Arkham Asylum game looks like it’s going to be good, just aslong as we aren’t let down by the quality. There is some worries about the release date though because it was planned for June however there was some news that it was going to be delayed.

Planned to be released on the same day as Batman is yet another movie based game, Ghostbusters. This is another game with some confusion behind it because there was some new recently that Sony had payed for exclusive rights for a period of time, but we’ll have to see how it pans out.

Now into July we will see the release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince game which will be similar to the Terminator game as in the quality will be unknown because it’s a movie game. I’m pretty sure though that the majority of Potter fans will want to get hold of this game whether it’s good or not.

Now we get to the games that are set for release during the months later in the year and on the run up to Christmas. These include Dirt 2, the sequel to the amazingly popular Dirt game which brought rally racing games to life. Other games include Max Payne 3, another addition to the Rock Band series, The Beatles: Rock Band which also come with a range of brand new instruments. Other additions to the game calendar include Need for Speed Shift, Bioshock 2, Bad Company 2 and finally the much anticipated, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.

There is certainly a huge amount of look forward to on the run up to Christmas and I’m sure that there will be a few more that pop up onto the radar in the next few months, most likely a few Guitar Hero games considering about 5 are planned for the rest of the year.

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