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November 5, 2009Band Hero Song List Released Today on Amazon!
Parents might be a little in the dark when it comes to the various music/band games being released this week. The information I have from the home-front (18 and 11 year old gamers) is that Band Hero is the one to buy.
The price on Amazon today, not sure if it’s just a promotional deal, is $179.00 for the Band Hero Super Bundle. It looks like the normal bundle price will ring in at $199, but even so it would retail at over $400!!!! GREAT pricing on Amazon today!
Activision is taking a slightly new approach with the three brand new games, Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero, and DJ Hero.
Band Hero is specifically targeting a family audience with the soundtrack catering to children and adults (this one looks the best to me, I love the song list!).
DJ Hero, however, looks to be a slight departure from the Guitar Hero series. Instead of the guitar controller, you will be using a turn table-styled controller pictured below. Amazon has the DJ Hero Super Bundle priced at only $114.99! Again, I think it’s an intro price, but WOW.
According to Activision’s press release, DJ Hero will “”transforms players into DJs who rule the club scene by creating original mixes of popular songs and music from the world’s most exciting artists and DJs.” Its soundtrack will consist of “diverse music genres including hip-hop, R&B, Motown, electronica and dance.”
G4 Band Hero Review
By Russ Fischer – Posted Nov 03, 2009
Love music games but think Rock Band has too much rock and Guitar Hero that nasty guitar? Then Band Hero, so named because “Pop Hero” sounds a bit funny, might be for you. The art is shiny and friendly, the songs are (mostly) culled from the pop charts, and there’s even a karaoke mode for those times when plastic instruments just aren’t appropriate. But does Band Hero hit the mark for its target pop audience or fall flat?
More Hits than a Street Fighter Tournament
The playlist is designed to appeal to younger players and fans of easy pop tunes, featuring some Hilary Duff, Santigold (formerly Santogold), Papa Roach, Hinder, Maroon 5 and Janet Jackson. A few songs featured in Band Hero should have hit music games long ago, such as Styx’s “Mr. Roboto” and Big Country’s “In a Big Country”. Most of the track list, however, is drawn from recent pop hits. Rock fans will be unimpressed, but it’s not like Activision is trying to put one over on them — there are no major gameplay advances beyond the Guitar Hero 5 template. This is essentially GH5 reskinned to be more family-friendly. If the song list isn’t to your taste, just move on.
Notably though, Band Hero‘s song selection is about 20% leaner than GH5’s. Sixty-five real songs are joined by six Neversoft compositions. Out of these, 61 (sadly not “Mr. Roboto”) can be exported to GH5 for five bucks, while 69 of GH5‘s 85 tracks can be imported to Band Hero for six bucks. Some GH: Smash Hits and GH World Tour songs will be importable as well, and most (that’s what Activision says: most) of your DLC will work with this game. Confused yet? Blame the lawyers!
Guitar Hero: Bedazzled Edition
As in GH5, the catalog layout screens are easy to read, playlists are easily created, and players can drop in and out at will in the cool party play mode. Karaoke Mode, known as Sing-a-long mode, lets up to four people sing together in a pure karaoke interface. Nothing special, but it’s a nice little touch.
While all this is great, a few Guitar Hero complaints still linger. In Rock Band, the ability to set the difficulty for each player in the startup menu of each song is a huge help when rotating players at a house party. In Band Hero, you pick song difficulty before picking your character and instrument, which makes for plenty of menu backtracking when playing with guests of various skill levels. Also, activating Star Power while drumming still requires hitting the yellow and orange cymbals simultaneously, a pain for less-experienced players struggling just to nail the notes on-screen.
Presentation is positively sparkly, favoring pink and neon. It benefits from GH5‘s advancements in animation, and the characters and venues all look better than in Neversoft’s previous attempts. A satirical spirit is still at work in the cutscenes, with Neversoft poking fun at “We Are the World”-style celebrity philanthropy and the willingness of fans to be part of the show no matter what. There are also a few dinosaur rock references buried in the game. The Montreux Smoke and Water festival, Career Mode’s second venue, is named after the same festival that led to Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water”.
Sparkly Doesn’t Mean Easy
If you’re thinking that pop songs translate into easy instrument parts, think again. Sure there are some easy songs, just as in every rhythm game, but try Expert drumming along with “Whip It” or “Love is a Battlefield”. Five-starring those tracks takes serious robo-skills. Compare the drum parts in “Bad Reputation” and “Rio” with the Rock Band versions and you’ll see that they’re just as demanding. Guitar and bass get some workouts too, but in general though expert players might not be challenged, but they won’t be bored either.
As in Guitar Hero 5, here the one instrument that seems to get a pass is the human voice. I saw people passing “Under Pressure” by Queen and Bowie on Expert who wouldn’t be able to pass the Hard version in Rock Band. Poorly warbling through a track on Expert won’t cut it, but it takes a lot more suckage to fail. You might squeak by with two stars (which never really happens in Rock Band), all in the spirit of keeping the rock rockin’.
Unleash Your Inner Animal?
It’s worth noting that with Band Hero, Activision had a convenient excuse to slightly revamp its drum hardware. The new kit is smaller and lighter, has a crossbar to which the kick pedal connects (finally), and features round cymbals rather than the triangular ones from World Tour. Only Wii owners get the new skins at the outset while the new 360 and PS3 drums will drop shortly. Buy a 360 or PS3 bundle on launch day, and you’re getting Guitar Hero World Tour drum hardware inside.
Saturation Point
In a better world, Activision would just come up with an online store where you could download a song collection and choose from a few front ends and character sets. Instead they keep pumping out various alternate editions of the Hero franchise. Within six weeks, Guitar Hero: Van Halen, DJ Hero and Band Hero have all hit. That’s madly confusing to the casual audience.
But for that same casual audience, Band Hero is a good package. It combines pop hits for younger players with classic tunes for their parents. It contains many of the mechanics that made Guitar Hero 5 a much-improved sequel. Although it has some of that game’s quirks, it adds some charm of its own. It’s almost impossible to please everyone all the time with a music game, but for the less hardcore just looking for hits, Band Hero nails all the notes.
Band Hero Song List
- 311 – “Beautiful Disaster”
- 30 Seconds To Mars – “The Kill”
- Airbourne – “Too Much Too Young”
- The Allman Brothers Band – “Ramblin’ Man”
- Anouk – “Good God”
- The Answer – “Never Too Late”
- At The Drive-In – “One Armed Scissor”
- Beastie Boys – “No Sleep Till Brooklyn”
- Beatsteaks – “Hail to the Freaks”
- Billy Idol – “Rebel Yell”
- Black Label Society – “Stillborn”
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – “Weapon of Choice”
- blink-182 – “Dammit”
- Blondie – “One Way or Another”
- Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – “Hollywood Nights”
- Bon Jovi – “Livin’ On A Prayer”
- Bullet For My Valentine – “Scream Aim Fire”
- Coldplay – “Shiver”
- Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Up Around The Bend”
- The Cult – “Love Removal Machine”
- Dinosaur Jr. – “Feel The Pain”
- The Doors – “Love Me Two Times”
- Dream Theater – “Pull Me Under”
- The Eagles – “Hotel California”
- The Enemy – “Aggro”
- Filter – “Hey Man, Nice Shot”
- Fleetwood Mac – “Go Your Own Way”
- Foo Fighters – “Everlong”
- The Guess Who – “American Woman”
- Hush Puppies – “You’re Gonna Say Yeah!”
- Interpol – “Obstacle 1″
- Jane’s Addiction – “Mountain Song”
- Jimi Hendrix – “Purple Haze (Live)”
- Jimi Hendrix – “The Wind Cries Mary”
- Jimmy Eat World – “The Middle”
- Joe Satriani – “Satch Boogie”
- Kent – “Vinternoll2″
- Korn – “Freak On A Leash”
- Lacuna Coil – “Our Truth”
- Lenny Kravitz – “Are You Gonna Go My Way”
- Linkin Park – “What I’ve Done”
- The Living End – “Prisoner of Society”
- Los Lobos – “La Bamba”
- Lost Prophets – “Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)”
- Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Sweet Home Alabama (Live)”
- Mars Volta – “L’Via L’Viaquez”
- MC5′s Wayne Kramer – “Kick Out The Jams”
- Metallica – “Trapped Under Ice”
- Michael Jackson – “Beat It”
- Modest Mouse – “Float On”
- Motorhead – “Overkill”
- Muse – “Assassin”
- Negramaro – “Nuvole e Lenzuola”
- Nirvana – “About a Girl (Unplugged)”
- No Doubt – “Spiderwebs”
- NOFX – “Soul Doubt”
- Oasis – “Some Might Say”
- Ozzy Osbourne – “Crazy Train”
- Ozzy Osbourne – “Mr. Crowley”
- Paramore – “Misery Business”
- Pat Benatar – “Heartbreaker”
- R.E.M. – “The One I Love”
- Radio Futura – “Escuela De Calor”
- Rise Against – “Re-Education Through Labor”
- Sex Pistols – “Pretty Vacant”
- Silversun Pickups – “Lazy Eye”
- Smashing Pumpkins – “Today”
- Steely Dan – “Do It Again”
- Steve Miller Band – “The Joker”
- Sting – “Demolition Man (Live)”
- The Stone Roses – “Love Spreads”
- Stuck In The Sound – “Toy Boy”
- Sublime – “Santeria”
- Survivor – “Eye of the Tiger”
- System of a Down – “B.Y.O.B.”
- Ted Nugent – “Stranglehold”
- Ted Nugent’s Original Guitar Duel Recording
- Tokio Hotel – “Monsoon”
- Tool – “Parabola”
- Tool – “Schism”
- Tool – “Vicarious”
- Trust – “Antisocial”
- Van Halen – “Hot For Teacher”
- Willie Nelson – “On The Road Again”
- Wings – “Band on the Run”
- Zakk Wylde’s Original Guitar Duel Recording
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