I must admit that even I was not immune against the onslaught of music games. And that's when I let myself get talked into Guitar Hero III and Rockband right after that, with me enjoying the latter rather more music wise.
Standing in front of the TV with a plastic guitar trying to look like a rockstar is something that takes getting used to but it has it's charm and by now I think I am quite decent at this game. It has this incredible feeling of achievement and it is really something different than sitting on the sofa frantically pressing buttons on the Xbox360 controller.
One fun thing with Rockband was that you can customize your character much more freely than in Guitar Hero III. I have created two outfits until now that I quite like and I thought I'd share them here.
The "Angel" outfit was first and the final configuration after many experiments with white clothes. The "Devil" is more openhearted (not all that easy if you look at the stuff available in the Rockband shop) and I think it works perfectly together with the facepaint and tattoos.
One thing that bugs me with the Xbox360 is that it is not really possible to make screenshots except by taking photos of the TV. I'd love a photo mode like in GranTurismo for the PS2 where you could pose and save your pictures to a USB stick. The Xbox360 ought to have a screenshot button that would do this for you anytime you needed to but I guess that would be difficult because of copyright restrictions.
I also bought a couple of DLC tunes vom the XBLA. Part of this list consists of tunes that came with the european version of Rockband and some songs where (kind of) accidents but I'll add descriptions to this list later on. I can simply never remember which songs are in my list so here it is, for me and anybody who is interested
| Song | Artist |
|---|---|
| Beetlebum | Blur |
| Monsoon | Tokio Hotel |
| Manu Chao | Les Wampas |
| Moving to Seattle | The Material |
| Promised Land | Vesuvius |
| Still Alive | GLaDOS |
| Countdown to Insanity | H-Blockx |
| Perfekte Welle | Juli |
| Tell Me Baby | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Kickstart My Heart | Mötley Crüe |
| New Wave | Pleymo |
| Rock'n'Roll Star | Oasis |
| My Curse | Killswitch Engage |
| Hier Kommt Alex | Die Toten Hosen |
| Hysteria | Muse |
| Snow ((Hey Oh)) | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Constant Motion | Dream Theater |
lychesis | 06 November, 2008 21:56
Hi, my name is Daniel Kluth and I'm a 3D artist and web designer currently working for Capture in Düsseldorf.
I work with Lightwave3D, Autodesk XSI and several other tools.