{"id":242,"date":"2009-06-02T22:21:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T05:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2009-06-02T22:27:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T05:27:30","slug":"e3-09-quickie-lego-rock-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"E3 09 Quickie: LEGO Rock Band"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before my first appointment today, I spent a little time checking out LEGO Rock Band<\/em>, which has three large stages set up at the Warner Bros booth. It’s basically a reskinned Rock Band<\/em> with a new batch of songs (there might be some duplicates from existing Rock Band<\/em> games) and a slightly more family-friendly air about it. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"600legorockbande309\"<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, everything’s been LEGO-fied, such as the notes now being little LEGO blocks and the band members all being LEGO characters. There are some little tweaks, such as a new “Super Easy” mode (essentially the same as Guitar Hero World Tour<\/em>‘s “Beginner” setting, where it doesn’t matter what notes you hit) or players losing studs instead of failing out and potentially causing the band to lose a song. All existing Rock Band<\/em> and Guitar Hero<\/em> hardware will be compatible with the game, so you won’t have to worry about adding any new plastic controllers to your collection. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There are a ton of questions the devs aren’t answering yet. Will existing Rock Band<\/em> DLC work with the game? (I’m guessing not.) What online support (if any) will it have? But otherwise, it’s clearly Rock Band<\/em> through and through, and with songs like Europe’s “The Final Countdown,” Blur’s “Song 2” and Foo Fighters’ “Breakout,” I won’t be able to help but buy it when it’s released later this year. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before my first appointment today, I spent a little time checking out LEGO Rock Band, which has three large stages set up at the Warner Bros booth. It’s basically a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e3-2009","category-rock-band"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}