Rock Band 3

[Hell Toupee]

Well, with E3 being next week (where every gaming company under the sun will be announcing plans for Christmas), information about updates to current products are being announced. Some details about the new version of Rock Band have surfaced. Here's the info known thus far:

1. Keyboards and pro settings! According to Kotaku, "The keyboard is a "25-key, fully functioning MIDI" version of the real thing, and is one of two key improvements made to the game, the other being the introduction of a new "Rock Band Pro" mode for expert players, which replaces colored tabs with real musical symbols in an effort to get players on the track to playing real instruments."







2. Pro mode will use full instruments. Not sure how just yet. "To complement Pro mode, there are two new guitar controllers in development that feature actual strings, one a full-sized replica of a Fender Stratocaster, the other a Fender Mustang Pro. "You can go from plucking single notes to power chords and bar chords, we have crazy stuff like tapping and slides," Harmonix's Sylvain Dubrofsky says. "If you ever had any aspirations of connecting with the music in a deeper way ... you are really going to like Rock Band 3."

3. Everything introduced in Beatles:RB will move to the new game (like harmonies, not sure about dreamscapes).

Finally, they released a partial songlist:

2000s
Combat Baby — Metric
Dead End Friends — Them Crooked Vultures
Get Free — The Vines
Lasso — Phoenix
Me Enamora — Juanes
Oh My God — Ida Maria
Portions of Foxes — Rilo Kiley
The Hardest Button to Button — The White Stripes

1990s
Been Caught Stealing — Jane's Addiction
In the Meantime — Spacehog
Plush — Stone Temple Pilots
Walkin' on the Sun — Smash Mouth

1980s
Crazy Train — Ozzy Osbourne
Here I Go Again — Whitesnake
I Love Rock and Roll — Joan Jett
Just Like Heaven — The Cure
Rainbow in the Dark — Dio
The Power of Love — Huey Lewis and the News
Sister Christian — Night Ranger

1960s-1970s
Bohemian Rhapsody — Queen
Break On Through — The Doors
Crosstown Traffic — Jimi Hendrix

[Butter]

A song from the Doors and a new keyboard controller?  My fingers might fall off.

[Hell Toupee]

Now there's video.

[Kwyjibo]

A song from the Doors and a new keyboard controller?  My fingers might fall off.

On the other hand the person doing the vocals will have time to walk down to the liquor store...

[clemsonfan]

I'm all about the keyboard!

[Hell Toupee]

Updated song list...

"Antibodies"    Poni Hoax    2000s
"Been Caught Stealing"    Jane's Addiction    1990s
"Before I Forget"    Slipknot    2000s
"Bohemian Rhapsody"    Queen    1970s
"Break On Through (To the Other Side)"    Doors !The Doors    1960s
"Cold as Ice"    Foreigner    1970s
"Combat Baby"    Metric    2000s
"Crazy Train"    Ozzy Osbourne    1980s
"Crosstown Traffic"    Jimi Hendrix Experience !The Jimi Hendrix Experience    1960s
"Dead End Friends"    Them Crooked Vultures    2000s
"Du Hast"    Rammstein    1990s
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World"    Tears for Fears    1980s
"Foolin'"    Def Leppard    1980s
"Get Free"    The Vines    2000s
"Get Up, Stand Up"    Bob Marley & The Wailers    1970s
"Here I Go Again"    Whitesnake    1980s
"Hey Man, Nice Shot"    Filter    1990s
"Humanoid"    Tokio Hotel    2000s
"I Love Rock 'n' Roll"    Joan Jett and the Blackhearts    1980s
"In the Meantime"    Spacehog    1990s
"Just Like Heaven"    The Cure    1980s
"Killing Loneliness"    HIM    2000s
"Lasso"    Phoenix    2000s
"Low Rider"    War    1970s
"Me Enamora"    Juanes    2000s
"Need You Tonight"    INXS    1980s
"Oh My God"    Ida Maria    2000s
"Oye Mi Amor"    Maná    1990s
"Plush"    Stone Temple Pilots    1990s
"Portions for Foxes"    Rilo Kiley    2000s
"Rainbow in the Dark"    Dio    1980s
"Rock Lobster"    The B-52s    1970s
"Roundabout"    Yes    1970s
"Sister Christian"    Night Ranger    1980s
"Space Oddity"    David Bowie    1960s
"The Beautiful People"    Marilyn Manson    1990s
"The Hardest Button to Button"    White Stripes !The White Stripes    2000s
"The Look"    Roxette    1980s
"The Power of Love"    Huey Lewis and the News    1980s
"Walkin' on the Sun"    Smash Mouth    1990s

[Doug]

O.k  We finally borrowed guitar hero from a friend and my son and I have been having a lot of fun with it. So my question to you guys who have mastered it is, has this game or the other games like it ever encouraged you to take the leap into playing an actual instrument?  I want my son to learn to play guitar and I wonder if this game is helping or hindering him.  I do like the fact that it's opening him up to new music.  He and his brother go around the house singing "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" nowadays.

[MissKitty]

I've nothing to add about playing an actual instrument, but I will say at least they aren't singing "Hit me with your bullshit" (which is what we used to sing in high school when the song was new).

[Hell Toupee]

Possibly more leaked songs from a recent demo of the game in Germany:

    * The Bronx – False Alarm
    * Lynyrd Skynyrd – Free Bird
    * Beach Boys – Good Vibrations (Live)
    * Tegan and Sara – The Con
    * Riverboat Gamblers – Don't Bury Me... I'm Still Not Dead
    * The Police – Don't Stand So Close to Me
    * Steve Miller Band – Fly Like an Eagle
    * Blondie – Heart of Glass
    * The Who – I Can See For Miles
    * James Brown – I Got You (I Feel Good)
    * Ramones – I Wanna Be Sedated
    * John Lennon – Imagine
    * Big Country – In a Big Country
    * Primus – Jerry Was a Race Car Driver
    * Echo and the Bunnymen – Killing Moon
    * Dover – King George
    * Raveonettes – Last Dance
    * The Sounds – Living in America
    * Phish – Llama
    * Faith No More – Midlife Crisis
    * Paramore – Misery Business
    * Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows
    * At the Drive-In – One Armed Scissor
    * The Muffs – Outer Space
    * Golden Earring – Radar Love
    * Amy Winehouse – Rehab
    * Elton John – Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
    * Deep Purple – Smoke on the Water
    * The Smiths – Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
    * Hypernova – Viva La Resistance
    * Pretty Girls Make Graves – Something Bigger, Something Brighter
    * Swingin' Utters – This Bastard's Life
    * Dire Straits – Walk of Life
    * Devo – Whip It
    * Warren Zevon – Werewolves of London
    * Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1

[Butter]

    * Echo and the Bunnymen – Killing Moon
    * Elton John – Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
    * Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1

It might be worth getting just between these and "Roundabout".

*drool*