After playing Guitar Hero 2 until I got to the death metal levels, and hating most of the songs in Guitar Hero 3, I wasn’t sure what to expect from Rock Band. I needn’t be worried however, since Rock Band is probably the coolest video game ever. For the uninitiated, it comes (in the special edition), with a guitar (better than the GH guitars), a drum set, and a microphone. You can buy another guitar if you want and have someone playing bass as well as lead. In any case, that’s your band. Leif and I formed our own band with him on guitar and me on drums, and I have to say that I’m having a blast on this. I read somewhere that playing the RB drums is close to playing the real drums (closer than the other instruments get to their counterparts at least), and it’s definitely hard. I’ve been playing on Medium level, except for 1 song (”Wanted Dead or Alive”) which I’m doing on Hard, and it’s so…much….fun. We’ve spent most of the weekend playing, or when Leif got too tired, I started playing in solo mode.

The songs are so much better than what came in GH 2 and 3, that so far I haven’t found one that I haven’t liked.

This is what I did all weekend