We got Rock Band

Super excited

Yesterday was Rock Band launch day. Totof went to Best Buy and got one home. I could not wait. We opened boxes after boxes to get all elements out. The packaging was quite sophisticated. By all means manufacturing requires good amount of knowledge. We removed all protections and assembled elements with extreme care. The bass was not hard to be assembled. But the drums were not easy at all. Parts were all over. We took the instruction and put elements in order. We followed the instruction and connected the drums to X box 360. But somehow, the drums did not get connected. We tried to do trouble shootings by ourselves. It turned out the USB hub came with the Rock Band package needed to be charged. After 10 min, everything was ready. We put the disk inside and wow. We were all standing up to appreciate the introduction of Rock Band. The intro and the menu and the background were aesthetic. Absolutely prettier than Guitar Hero. (Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero = 1:0)

In Rock Band, you can create your own characters. A similar way to Wii. Quite fun. (Rock band vs. Guitar Hero = 2:0) Just one thing to complain. The name entry part is not intuitive and not easy-of-use. Totof, myself, and Fabien created our own characters. We all looked cool.

Good thing is that the Guitar Hero guitars are compatible in Rock Band. We got our instruments and started our worldwide tour: Totof played guitar, myself played drums, and Fabien played bass. We chose San Francisco as our hometown. We started our tour from a small pub. We were thrilled to know we got fans and gigs after our performance. So, here is a major difference between Guitar Hero and Rock Band. In Guitar Hero, you perform and gain money and advance your band. In Rock Band, you perform and gain three things depending on your performance: money, fans, and gigs. It was entertaining to see the number of fans increased. (Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero = 3:0)

The drums were not easy to perform. We spent some time to understand the coordination. We should have consulted the manual but we did not. We realized the orange horizontal line was for the foot part after several songs (we failed many times). Rock Band is totally about team work. If a member fails, other members need to save him/her by using star power. Every member has three chances to fail. If a member is permanently failed, then the team will be in danger. The team will fail quite soon. It is like reality. Your band cannot survive if the drum or the guitar member fails her/his duty. Your fans will get annoyed or upset.

Another difference is that if you give up trying a song in Rock Band, you will get penalty by losing some numbers of fans (oh, no). It hurt when we abandoned a song.

We also tried the vocal part. I can tell you Rock Band will bring us tons of fun.