LRB: Whimsical fantasy stages like a haunted house, a pirate ship and outer space.īH: More realistic spaces like a mall, an outdoor festival and, um, outer space. Winner: "Lego Rock Band," for sheer adorability. LRB: You can turn your whole family into Lego figurines.īH: You can build your own rockers, or import Xbox or Wii avatars. But seriously, what is the Rolling Stones' filthy "Honky Tonk Women" doing in a kids' game? So Electric Six's "Gay Bar" is out.īH: Sex and drug references are dropped out of lyrics. LRB: The track list is pretty clean, and it won't let you play the raunchier downloadable tracks. LRB: The "Rock Band" franchise has nearly 1,000 downloadable tracks, though some won't work in "Lego Rock Band."īH: The company's Web site lists 167 downloadable "Band Hero" tunes. Winner: "Lego Rock Band," if only because it has fewer of them. LRB: Lostprophets' "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)," Boys Like Girls' "Thunder."īH: Tonic's "If You Could Only See," Hinder's "Lips of an Angel."
LRB: Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters," Queen's "We Will Rock You."īH: The Village People's "Y.M.C.A.," Devo's "Whip It." Artistes," the Mighty Mighty Bosstones' "The Impression That I Get." LRB: Elton John's "Crocodile Rock," Supergrass' "Grace," Blur's "Song 2."īH: Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," Santigold's "L.E.S. LRB: Queen, David Bowie, Iggy Pop - in Lego form.īH: Taylor Swift, No Doubt, Maroon 5's Adam Levine. The success of a music game, though, depends a lot on what songs you get to play. Both titles feature the same gameplay as their parent titles, but the gigs have moved out of dingy rock clubs and into more fanciful, all-ages spaces. MTV's would-be gateway drug, published by Warner Bros., is "Lego Rock Band" (for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, $49.99).
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