Brick house: Harmonix, TT officially announce Lego Rock Band
After months of speculation and an accidental reveal via GDC slide notes, Rock Band creators Harmonix and Lego Star Wars/Batman/Indiana Jones creators TT Games have officially announced that 2009 will see the release of a Lego branded Rock Band for Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and DS.
Why Lego? As it turns out, the game is being positioned as a way to take Rock Band's suggestive metal posturing and give it family-friendly smiley-face accessibility, with "classic favourites suitable for younger audiences" like:
Blur: "Song 2"; Carl Douglas: "Kung Fu Fighting"; Europe: "The Final Countdown"; Good Charlotte: "Boys and Girls"; Pink: "So What"
As for the Lego integration itself, apart from being able to customize your minifig-avatars (as well as your roadies, managers, and crew) as you've classically been able to do, the studios say that instead of mimicing real-world venues, the game's performances will take place at "venues, stadiums and fantasy locations on Earth and beyond, that mimic the imaginative settings that the Lego world offers."
I have to admit: I'm as excited for this as I have been for any of the franchise's other iterations, despite the toned down approach, though if it doesn't have guitars smashing into a handful of 1x1 bricks, both Harmonix and TT are a little bit dead to me.
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Ratdog
#1 – 9:03 AM April 21, 2009
How dare they add blur to that godawful list of songs.
All in all, I think this sounds like a pretty stupid idea.
jungleFish
#2 – 11:35 AM April 21, 2009
"classic favourites suitable for younger audiences"
Dude, calm down.
As a dad, I welcome this. I play RockBand 2 with my kids, but we have to skip some of the songs that I feel are a bit too... too... not for kids.
Ratdog
#3 – 2:22 PM April 21, 2009
Yeah, I see what you mean. I just sorta miss the days when legos weren't primarily known as video-games.
But, in retrospect, it is a pretty good idea. Kids will like it, and it won't be any heavy metal songs or anything. I still have no urge to play The Final Countdown though.
I was also pretty tired/out of it when I wrote the first comment.
OK, I have officially calmed down.
panophobe
#4 – 9:05 AM April 22, 2009
Right now, I can't think of a cheesier, more ridiculous 80s song than "The Final Countdown". Which is exactly why I'll be buying this.