| Rock Band Special Edition Xbox 360 | 
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| From: MTV Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $169.99
Buy New: $145.98
You Save: $24.01 (14%)
Buy New/Used from $127.72
Avg. Customer Rating:   (225 reviews)
Sales Rank: 61
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Special
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 22
Dimensions (in): 12 x 36 x 48
MPN: 15911
Model: SEP
UPC: 014633159110
EAN: 0718738546331
ASIN: B000TT4GBG
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Experience 4 music games in 1--master lead guitar, bass guitar, drums, and vocals. Music spans all genres of rock and includes many master recordings from legendary artists. | | • | Form your own band, create and customize your own rocker, and travel on a fast rise to fame around the world. | | • | Choose single-player Career mode leading a band or multiplayer as part of the band or against each other--in person or online. Supports downloadable content for never-ending challenges. | | • | The Rock Band Special Edition includes the Xbox 360 game, a guitar controller, drum set, and microphone. |
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Product Description
Time to release your inner rock star! Dive into Rock Band's challenging and addicting game modes and rock out to your favorite tunes. Put together a band, play in it, and tour for fame and fortune- all while learning to master lead/bass guitar, drums and vocals. Major record labels and leading music publishers have signed on to provide unrivaled access to master recordings and legendary rock artists - from punk, metal and alternative to classic and southern rock - including many master recordings from legendary artists, including acts like Metallica, Bon Jovi, Stone Temple Pilots and the Ramones! Learn to play songs spanning all genres of rock and with access to new downloadable content, it's a new concert experience every time! Play together in your living room or across the world - Rock Band offers deep online functionality, allowing players to rock together whether they're in Rhode Island or Reykjavik. This Special Edition box includes game, guitar, microphone and drum set -- everything you need to get in the game and rock out! Call out the crowd! Vocalists can bring the crowd to their feet during Rock Band's freestyle vocal fill windows. Ad-lib your own words or shout to the crowd to raise the rock intensity of the performance. Band mates can fail out of a song for poor performance, but the band still plays on. Rescue your failing mate by busting out signature moves and blistering solos to wow the crowd with showmanship. Boost your bonus! Earn bonus points for your band during Rock Band's Unison Phrase opportunities if everyone plays perfectly. ESRB Rated T for Teen.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 220 more reviews...
 Best Game Ever July 17, 2008
Best game ever, the guitar have the correct measure, have both keys for solo and regular play, the drums and the mic are great, best game i ever bought, better than guitar hero
A Great game. Some improvements could be made July 16, 2008
I dont need to add to all the glowing positivity that it credibly gains. So let me nit pick.
This major one is the drum pedal snapping. So I suggest you reinforce it. Go to Loewe's and the lumber section. You'll find a flat metal hinge / plate with holes pre-drilled. Its about 5 inches long and 1.5" wide. Cost $1.07 or so. Get 2. The pedal will snap with use when you become more proficient. Google for a pic and notice where it snaps. Get machine screws and bolt down the pedal to reinforce it. Use Loctite when you do so. Its a mod you must do unless they fixed their flimsy design. I snapped my pedal and fixed it like the above. Works great now.
The guitar fails too where you strum. Mine did not yet. My friends did.
In terms of s/w pgming, it has has "Practice mode". However this mode does not score you. So you cant see your failure point clearly. Notice I said "clearly". If you find yourself failing on an exact spot, you'll see the screen going red before your applause/success bar plummets. There is no such metering in practice. Would be nice to have.
Inspite of these, it is a splendid game. IF YOU LOVE music. Particularly, if you like to drum / sing / air guitar, with a captive audience by will/force. Or if you're a professional bathroom singer. Then you'll love it.
Single player is fun. Replay value does exist if you like to play music. But multi-player is a hoot and where its at.
Go ahead and buy it if you love music and particularly, ANY of the supplied musical instruments.
a family experience! July 13, 2008
I am Jim's wife and the mother of two teenagers - a boy and a girl. I have to say I resisted the purchase of Rock Band. I thought it was a lot of money and they already had Guitar Hero and lots of other games for the PS2 and Xbox 360. But finally, I agreed to allow the kids to purchase RB together with their own allowance money. It arrived quickly from Amazon. The band was unpacked and has become an unprecedented favorite of each of us in the household. My husband jumped in and plays the guitar, drums, and vocals. Our teen kids, who normally pick at each other constantly, play well together and seem to enjoy each other's company. I love watching the family have a common interest.
 the game that keeps on giving July 11, 2008
As sad as it sounds, playing Rockband is some of the most fun my wife and I have ever had. The band world tour mode is an absolute blast and the song selection is varied and excellent. I love making bands, personalizing my characters and having so many instrument options. My only complaint is that the equipment is cheap, which is why I gave it an overall rating of 4 instead of 5. I would give it 4 1/2 if that was an option. I've had a guitar and a drum set break and we weren't playing either of the items overly hard. However, customer service was excellent and both items were promptly replaced free of charge. Rockband is also the game that keeps on giving via its downloadable songs. When we start to get bored of the game we order more songs and we're excited all over again. We can probably play this game for years without tiring of it as long as we can get new songs. I'll be ordering Rockband 2 as soon as it's released.
Fun but needs more songs July 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is a blast and fun to play with friends but we haven't gotten very far in it and playing the same songs over and over gets old. We did just get a Bon Jovi song so that was exciting!
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