Playstation 3 The Beatles: Rock Band – Software Only
- A variety of gameplay environments pulled from the Beatles career, including Cavern Club, Abbey Road and Shea Stadium.
- “The Beatles: Rock Band” software for PS3.
- A song list of more than 40 Beatles hits, as well as additional DLC to follow via PlayStation Network.
- The first music game to offer harmonies as part of gameplay, challenging players to recreate The Beatles’ vocal blend.
- Works with all Rock Band and most Guitar Hero controllers and microphones.
Product Description
Experience The Beatles music and legacy like never before, utilizing the core Rock Band game play. “The Beatles: Rock Band” in an unprecedented, experiential progression through and celebration of the music and artistry of The Beatles. The game will allow fans to pick up the guitar, bass, mic or drums and experience The Beatles extraordinary catalogue of music through game play that takes players on a journey through the legacy and evolution of the band’s legendary career.Amazon.com Product Description
The world’s leading music game meets the greatest band in history. The Beatles: Rock Band gives fans what they’ve been waiting for: a chance to experience the Beatles’ legendary story from the inside. In The Beatles: Rock Band you won’t just watch and listen as The Beatles make rock history, create landmark records and conquer the world-for the first time, you’ll be part of the band. The Beatles software is compatible with Rock Band, Guitar Hero and most other instrument controllers, as well as third party microphones including SingStar and Lips.
Play across all band eras.
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A variety of play venues.
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Master classic Beatles harmonies.
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Standard Rock Band controller set.
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The Game
Join John, Paul, George and Ringo on-stage at legendary shows, behind closed doors in the recording studio, and in dreamscapes that bring the psychedelic imagery of the latter stage of their career to life. The acclaimed Rock Band elements of interactive play and full-band capacity are here as well, but with brand-new additions. One of these is full three-part harmonies, which challenge you to recreate The Beatles’ vocal blend a first for any music game and facilitated by the game’s support for up to three microphone controllers. In addition, the game supports custom-built controllers modeled after the actual instruments that the Fab Four played, and eventually helped to make iconic, audio straight from the masters and graphics that take you on a magical tour through the key moments in The Beatles history. Produced with the full cooperation of The Beatles and Apple Corps, the game is packed with hidden fab extras that will push you and up to five of your friends to master the songs both online and offline in order to hear rare audio and view unseen photos from the archives.
The Song List
The Beatles were one of the most prolific bands of all time, churning out memorable hit after hit and this is reflected in the song list of The Beatles: Rock Band. From “I Want to Hold Your Hand” to “Get Back,” every song in The Beatles: Rock Band comes directly from the Abbey Road master tapes. More than 40 songs are included with the game, spanning the length of The Beatles’ career, with more to follow via download on PlayStation Network. The full list of hits supplied with the game disc include:
- I Saw Her Standing There
- Boys
- Do You Want To Know A Secret
- Twist And Shout
- I Wanna Be Your Man
- I Want to Hold Your Hand
- A Hard Day’s Night
- Can’t Buy Me Love
- I Feel Fine
- Eight Days A Week
- Ticket To Ride
- Day Tripper
- Drive My Car
- I’m Looking Through You
- If I Needed Someone
- Paperback Writer
- Taxman
- Yellow Submarine
- And Your Bird Can Sing
- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- With a Little Help from My Friends
- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
- Getting Better
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- Good Morning Good Morning
- I Am The Walrus
- Hello Goodbye
- Revolution
- Back In The USSR
- Dear Prudence
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- Birthday
- Helter Skelter
- Hey Bulldog
- Don’t Let Me Down
- Come Together
- Something
- Octopus’s Garden
- I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
- Here Comes The Sun
- Dig A Pony
- I Me Mine
- I’ve Got A Feeling
- Get Back
- Within You Without You / Tomorrow Never Knows
- The End
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The Instruments
Although The Beatles: Rock Band supports instruments from previous Rock Band and Guitar Hero releases on the same gaming platform, it also is tailor-made for play using The Beatles: Rock Band exclusive line of instrument controllers (sold separately). Each member of The Beatles had a signature instrument(s) that became synonymous with them. Controllers available are precise replicas of those instruments and include:
- John Lennon’s – Rickenbacker 325 guitar
- Sir Paul McCartney’s trademark – Höfner bass
- George Harrison’s – Gretsch Duo Jet guitar
- Ringo Starr’s – Drums with classic black oyster pearl finish and Ludwig-branded Beatles kick drum head
The Gameplay Venues
Having made music together in various capacities and combinations for more than ten years, The Beatles career is inextricably linked with a variety of venues. Follow The Beatles from their earliest days in locales in Liverpool and Hamburg, to their triumphant Ed Sullivan Show appearance and beyond. In addition, join them in the studio at Abbey Road and experience dreamscapes that put you inside the psychedelic era. Just a few of the famous venues players can expect to see in the game are: Cavern Club, The Ed Sullivan Theater, Shea Stadium, Budokan, Abbey Road, Rooftop, And many more. |
Playstation 3 The Beatles: Rock Band – Software Only
I used to play Guitar Hero. This beatles Rockband’s sound match with instruments is better, but graphic is terrible. I hope they improve graphic part of this game. Best songs, but easy to make me bored because of the simple graphics.
Rating: 3 / 5
Most likely, you’re reading this review because you already have some interest in either The Beatles or music games. And you’re probably wondering what other people think about this game, and whether it’s worth your time. Allow me to convince you that this is a game of a lifetime, and a chance you don’t want to pass up.
Number one: it’s just so much fun. Obviously, if you know you don’t like the Beatles, then go ahead and walk past this one. This game would be absolute torture if you didn’t like the songs, but there are many more lovers than haters of this band. For most people, every song is going to be simultaneously a reminiscence of what you’ve heard before and an all-new experience of hearing the song broken down to its individual parts. I enjoyed focusing just on the bass, for example, or noticing what how the harmonies complement the lead vocals. It was a constant rediscovery, even on my favorite songs.
Number one, part two: it’s just so much fun (continued). We had a Beatles: Rock Band party last night, and it was great to have six people participating at once (three singers and three musicians, 50% more participants than ever before in Rock Band). Yes, playing the instruments is, in general, not as challenging as in other rhythm games, but that simply changes what you aim for. Rather than thinking, “Oh, I hope I make it through this song!” you’ll be thinking, “I better get five stars on this!” or you’ll see that flawless playing is possible with practice and concentration. Harmonies, on the other hand, are brand new and definitely a tough challenge. It’s a joy to hit a double fab (two part harmony) and our triple fabs were rare enough to warrant high fives around the room. Although future music games are likely to include harmonies, no other game will do what the Beatles can do, and that’s because of the perfection of the original performances.
Number two: it’s just so beautiful. Every part of this game shines with attention to detail and great uses of color, sound and motion effects. This compares to other video games as an art book compares to an oil painting.
Number three: it’s just so valuable. There’s plenty of game for you dollar here. You can play songs a la carte or by creating setlists, or you can play story mode. And yes, the story mode is set up in the shortest possible way. You play through forty-five of the Beatles best songs (no, not every single favorite of every fan) in chronological order with no repeats. I’ve heard other reviewers point this out like it’s a bad thing. But I’m telling you that it was such an awesome experience to play through the story from start to finish in one sitting with seven other friends. That’s never happened before, and it’ll probably never happen again. For people who complain there are “only” forty-five songs here, as opposed to the eighty-two in Rock Band 2, consider that each of these songs has a specifically composed background video, whereas all previous similar games had your on-screen avatar just rocking out on a stage in a random series of animations. So with the additional songs, you’re not only downloading a great mix of a Beatles song (which you’ve never been able to do before), but a computer-generated video to go along with it. Not sure why people would complain about that!
Number four: it’s just so valuable (continued). Seriously, there’s a lot of game here. The integration of trophies and achievements has never been done better in any previous game. After playing songs in quick play you can easily check out your progress on all of the trophies, which are all named after Beatles lyrics. You’ll get different scores on songs for each of the four instruments and for band play. The song results screen also ranks your performance against that of other players. And to think that the song selection will be increased by over thirty songs by the end of the year!
In conclusion, this game is oodles of fun, beauty and value. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some harmonies to work on.
Rating: 5 / 5
I’m a huge fan of musical games – I’ve got every Karaoke Revolution game, every Rock Band game, and a bunch of Guitar Hero’s also. This is FAR AND AWAY my favorite, hands down.
Why? It’s THE BEATLES. I love every song, know them all by heart, and love playing not just along with the music, but as a Beatle!
The graphics are awesome, the RB2 format improved a little bit, and all in all, it’s just a great game.
The new harmony singing feature is terrific.
Rating: 5 / 5
I debated buying this because of the high price tag vs. amount of actual content. This game features a mere 40 (or so) tracks, whereas the standard versions of Guitar Hero boast 90+ songs. I bought it anyways because I am a Beatles fan, so while I am not surprised that I was let down, i still feel its not worth the money. You can easily breeze through this game in a couple (and i do mean a ‘couple’ literally) hours, and since all the songs are already unlocked when you buy the game, progressing through the ’story’ is pointless unless you want to unlock some photos.
Of course, all the real content from this game is gonna come from DLC, where they’ll probably charge you twenty bucks per album. If you buy this and are a hardcore Beatles fan, be prepared to shell out boatloads of cash in the future to get the songs and albums they should have put on here in the first place. I consider myself a hardcore Beatles fan, so I know all the songs. Even so, I was disappointed with the tracklist, as alot of the obvious hits were left out in favor of album cuts (i.e., leaving out “Help” to squeeze in “I Dig A Pony”).
As far as the gameplay, its typical Rock Band. Meaning…its way too easy for musical minded people and I think its way to forgiving of errors. Definitely seems like it was dumbed down for the masses. Unless you play on Expert, you’ll just be mindlessly strumming 1-2-3-4 for most of the songs. Again, story mode is pointless but the art design is cool, as is the studio chatter during load screens. Makes you feel like you really are getting ready to record a take in the studio. Still, I cant help but feel like this is merely a very expensive disc to get you to download expensive DLC.
Casual music fans will probably want to skip this in favor of another version of rock band or guitar hero that has double the tracks for less money…or wait til the price drops for a used copy. Beatles Rock Band is definitely for hard core fans only…and even they probably will be let down because theres just not enough of it to justify the full price.
Rating: 3 / 5
Love it. Love it. Love it. My 6 year old and all her friends love it, too. Too bad Rock band 2 doesn’t have the great video that Rock Band Beatles does. Why the hell am I typing this when I could be playing Rock Band Beatles? Must be the Rahr & Sons beer.
Rating: 5 / 5