Rock Band 3 utannonserat

VIacom CEO and President Philippe Dauman has confirmed that Harmonix is working on Rock Band 3, for release Holiday 2010! WOOO!

HMX har tidigare antytt att de tittar på Project Natal, men vad det innebär är inte offentligt än. Månne behöver man ingen kontroll alls i fortsättningen på XBOX?

Redigerat av Unregistered1497, 10 mars 2010 - 16:19.

Månne behöver man ingen kontroll alls i fortsättningen på XBOX?

Vad är nästa steg i utvecklingen för dessa spel?

Redigerat av Zoiler, 10 mars 2010 - 21:00.

Rammstein har du ju i GH5 annars

HMX har tidigare antytt att de tittar på Project Natal, men vad det innebär är inte offentligt än.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/2010-0...band10_ST_N.htm[/url]

'Rock Band 3': Keyboards are the key
By Mike Snider, USA TODAY

Ever since Rock Band expanded the musical video-game stage in 2007 to add drums and vocals to the Guitar Hero experience, players have been clamoring for keyboards.
Consider that request filled. Rock Band 3 (due for the holidays for PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii) expands the virtual band to seven (drums, lead and bass guitar, keyboards, lead vocals and two harmony vocals). "With the introduction of keyboards, we get to bring a ton of amazing new music onto the platform, which will help feed the appetite for music for years to come," says Alex Rigopulos, CEO of game studio Harmonix.

Among the 83 new songs to be included, Rigopulos says, "it's hard to pick a favorite, but for The Doors to be making an appearance on Rock Band finally with their classic Break On Through, I love that one. And Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody is endlessly fun."
The success of Rock Band and follow-up Rock Band 2 propelled sales of music games to more than $1.6 billion in 2008 — with the help of competing Guitar Hero titles. Despite a wide variety of new games in 2009 including The Beatles: Rock Band and DJ Hero, annual sales fell by nearly 50%.

That slide inspired the Rock Band 3 development team to try to recapture the fun "that really started this whole phenomenon in the first place," says project director Daniel Sussman.

During the game, green, red, blue, yellow or orange keys flow on a "stream" representing the notes to be played on five corresponding keyboard keys. In a new authentic Pro mode meant to help players segue to actual instruments, all 25 keys are used; the streams shifts left and right to cover the correct keys. The keyboard also works as a MIDI keyboard that can be connected to a computer. "This is a real instrument and a real device," says senior designer Sylvain Dubrofsky.

In addition to the new keyboard controller, also due for the game's release are two advanced guitar controllers that take advantage of the Pro mode, one a full-sized, fully functional Fender guitar (all sold separately, no prices yet).

Other Rock Band 3 advances: improved animations, refined gameplay features — players can drop in and out of games, or change instruments and difficulty settings without stopping songs — and a easier-to-use song menu.

"Our ambition for Rock Band 3 was really to re-energize and reinvigorate the (music game) category and advance it and move it forward," Rigopulos says.

http://www.usatoday....band10_VA_N.htm

'Rock Band 3': What's new, what's notable

By Mike Snider, USA TODAY

Development of Rock Band 3 began immediately after the September 2008 release of Rock Band 2, says project director Daniel Sussman at Cambridge, Mass.-based Harmonix.

As work continued, the music category's slide in sales made the design team deepen their focus. "We saw a kind of staleness in terms of game-play innovation," Sussman says. "Really, the main focus of Rock Band 3 development was finding new ways to experience the music and actually doubling down, if you will, on our investment in compelling game play.

"We are adding a new instrument (a 25-key, fully functioning MIDI keyboard) and we're adding a whole new mode, which is designed basically to answer that staleness factor."

The result, he says, is "an experience that is both accessible to players who are just getting into this thing, and builds something for the hard-core player who is maybe a little bored with where music games are."

Sussman and several key members of the Rock Band team (Harmonix senior designers Sylvain Dubrofsky and Dan Teasdale, and public relations gurus John Drake of Harmonix and Jeff Castaneda of MTV Games; you can see them all playing the game in the accompanying video) recently demonstrated Rock Band 3 for USA TODAY's Game Hunters and offered a test drive of the new keyboard controller, as well as the game's new authentic Pro mode aimed at helping players develop skills usable on real instruments.

"Everybody who wants to keep playing on the instruments they already have, we have enhanced new features and new gameplay for you," Dubrofsky says. "It's up to you to decide where you take this."

More on the advances for Rock Band 3 (due for the holidays for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii and Nintendo DS):
•Better story. Design your own characters and session musicians from improved character models and watch their story unfold throughout the game. Your band members are seen getting into the van to go to a show, and practicing as well as performing. They even appear as you choose songs to play. "It is a really cool way to make sure you are always in the narrative no matter which mode you are in," Teasdale says. "The entire game is essentially one story of your band."

Everything you do earns achievements in the goal-based career mode. "Previously our career modes weren't really about getting better as a Rock Band player, it was about investing time," Teasdale says. "We developed this entirely new career mode based around unlocking achievement-like goals to show your progression through the game, and also give you incentives to get better.

"We have hundreds and hundreds of these goals across instruments and gameplay modes and across (downloadable content). It is a really great way to finish Rock Band in your way, based on your skill, and not on some predetermined path of songs."

•More fluid gameplay. Players can jump in or out of songs without interrupting a song already in progress. They can also change instruments or difficulty settings during a song without pausing. "It's a really cool way to get rid of that friction that players have when they are in a party situation," Teasdale says.
Another party-friendly mode, "road challenges," is described by Teasdale as "taking Rock Band 1 and 2's band world tour (mode) and merging it with Mario Party. We tried to find a way to get the core experience people had playing the band world tour and the things they really enjoyed, like getting the van or getting random set lists, and putting that into a setting that you can finish in an evening instead of a week. So now we have all these tours which are actually you going on a tour of the East Coast or touring across the world, and you are finishing that in three hours or whatever time you think you have to play."

•Revamped song-filtering system. With the Rock Band library expected to grow to about 2,000 songs by year's end, it has grown too big for simply scrolling. With the new system, "you can say, 'only show me songs in Rock Band 3' or 'only songs under three minutes' or 'Eighties metal songs from my (downloadable) collection,' " Teasdale says. "It's a really cool way to take your full library down to a manageable list of songs."

Not to be forgotten, the keyboards' addition — along with carrying over the three-part harmonies from The Beatles: Rock Band and new Green Day: Rock Band games — means that "you can play as a seven -player band," Teasdale says, "which is an amazing experience."

•Rock Band Pro. This new music learning mode lets players develop real-world music-playing fundamentals for keyboards, guitars and drums. More realistic music notations replace the standard color-coded notes during gameplay. For guitar, numbers flow down the screen along six guitar strings, telling you where to place your hands on the neck and when to strum.

Two new guitar controllers in the works have actual strings where you strum; one is a full-sized, fully functional six-string Squier Stratocaster from Fender. "It can tell where your fingers are based on technology in the neck and the bridge of the guitar. No buttons," Drake says. "While you're playing it, it feels exactly like playing a real guitar," because that's what you're doing.

The other is a Fender Mustang Pro controller from accessory maker Mad Catz with a field of buttons in each fret. As your fingers compress the smaller non-colored buttons on that guitar's neck, your finger positions are represented in the game's display. "You can go from plucking single notes to power chords and bar chords, we have crazy stuff like tapping and slides," Dubrofsky says. "If you ever had any aspirations of connecting with the music in a deeper way ... you are really going to like Rock Band 3."

For drums, three new cymbals are added to the standard four drum pads, and you are forced to play the correct cymbal at the right time. "It really immerses you more. You feel more like a drummer," Dubrofsky says. "It's not only for expert levels. You can come in on easy and actually play Pro drums. We have all the different levels established. It's actually really fun. You are playing up on the high hat or down on the snare, and it feels more like a kit than ever before."

On keyboards, Sussman says, "we're actually utilizing the full two-octave range that the keyboard controller has. Everything that you are playing, whether you are playing on easy or expert, is accurate musical information. The track looks like a real keyboard track, and you are playing notes on the keyboard that if you were to step away from the game and were to play on a real piano, they would be the right notes."

Pro players can use the mode for private practice or incorporate it while others play the game's standard arcade modes. "You can be an expert keys-player playing with an all easy band, no problem," Drake says.

Some tracks revealed
2000s
Combat Baby -- Metric
Dead End Friends -- Them Crooked Vultures
Get Free -- The Vines
Lasso -- Phoenix
Me Enamora -- Juanes
Oh My God -- Ida Maria
Portions of Foxes -- Rilo Kiley
The Hardest Button to Button -- The White Stripes

1990s
Been Caught Stealing -- Jane's Addiction
In the Meantime -- Spacehog
Plush -- Stone Temple Pilots
Walkin' on the Sun -- Smash Mouth

1980s
Crazy Train -- Ozzy Osbourne
Here I Go Again -- Whitesnake
I Love Rock and Roll -- Joan Jett
Just Like Heaven -- The Cure
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
The Power of Love -- Huey Lewis and the News
Sister Christian -- Night Ranger

1960s-1970s
Bohemian Rhapsody -- Queen
Break On Through -- The Doors
Crosstown Traffic -- Jimi Hendrix

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Oj... nu kommer de riktiga gitarrerna också. Oväntat, men nu kan inte de som spelar riktiga instrument klaga på att det är overkligt och 'waste of time'

Frågan är bara hur Guitar Hero ska kontra... de lär inte ha något sådant förberett till GH6 i alla fall.

Undrar dock hur det kommer att fungera... ska man behöva läsa riktiga noter nu? Hoppas på demonstration på E3.

Jag funderar på om man kan koppla in vilken midi-keyboard som hellst, liknande som man kunde med trumsetet. Har inte läst något om det.

Jag funderar på om man kan koppla in vilken midi-keyboard som hellst, liknande som man kunde med trumsetet. Har inte läst något om det.

Jodå, det kommer en adapter som ska funka med både MIDI-keyboard och MIDI-trumset!

Lite länkar, bland annat med bilder på de nya instrumenten:
http://www.plasticax...rals/#more-4854
http://www.plasticax...ut-rock-band-3/
http://www.plasticax...-functionality/

Gamespot har en del kul saker också, bland annat två videor med en intervju med Dan Teasdale från Harmonix
http://e3.gamespot.c...topslot;title;1

Finally, here’s one for our friends overseas: It’s getting a simultaneous worldwide release. The press release cites “Holiday 2010 in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and other territories”

Redigerat av Unregisterede32cf070, 11 juni 2010 - 16:52.

Back at this year's Game Developers Conference we got our first look at band game newcomer Power Gig: Rise of the Six String. While it allows a group of people to play guitar, drums, and sing along with popular songs much like Guitar Hero and Rock Band do, Power Gig's gimmick is that it comes with a real six string guitar. The controller is used to play the game, but it can also be plugged into an amplifier and used like a regular guitar. We recently got some more info on Power Gig, played with the guitar, and checked out the bizarre drum controller.

Over 90 percent of the songs on Power Gig's track list haven't appeared in a music game before. Holdouts like Kid Rock, Dave Matthews Band, and Eric Clapton will be making their music game debuts here. However, one of the few songs we were able to play was "Cult of Personality" by Living Colour, which also appeared in Guitar Hero III.

The guitar controller is definitely a very real, very playable instrument. But using it in the game doesn't seem to be much like strumming a six string. There are two gameplay modes, one for playing the typical beat-matching way of Guitar Hero/Rock Band and one for playing chords. While I was checking out the chording mode it seemed like I could play any combination of notes as long as the root note was correct. But Power Gig representatives tell me you do need to play the correct chord -- I dunno. We've only seen chords in the game as complicated as power chords, which consist of just two notes. We'll have to spend more time with the game and the guitar to really get a sense of whether or not Power Gig will teach the basics of guitar playing, like the developers claim.

What is really strange about Power Gig is that, while the developers chose to go with a real guitar controller, the drum controller is the opposite of real drums. You basically play air drums along with the game. You'll get four motion-sensing pads to lay on the ground and you wave your drumsticks over them. It's the same technology we saw in Samba de Amigo for the Dreamcast back in the day.

Behold! The AirStrike Drum Controller.
The four color-coded pads represent the snare, hi hat, tom, and crash cymbal from left to right and a pedal for kick drum. A light in the center of each sensor flashes when it reads your stick's movement. The problem is that it would often read a stroke as a double hit because of the natural slight bounce at the end of your stick. The Power Gig package will include legs for the sensors that will raise them off the ground and get them closer to you, and I did have an easier time of it when I attached them. But I play Rock Band drums on expert difficulty – I was playing Power Gig on easy and only scored a 60 percent at the end. This tells me they're not working properly.

Power Gig's drum controller seems to forget what makes playing drums so much fun: people like to hit things with sticks. Actually beating the crap out of something is quite satisfying. Here, you're just waving your arms in the air. It's a lot like playing drums in Wii Music, actually – and I think we all remember what a train wreck that was.

It takes guts to enter the band game scene today as an unknown with plans to take on the well-entrenched Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Not only do those games have strong brand recognition, many people are feeling music game fatigue these days and have trouble getting excited about even these stalwarts. A newcomer like Power Gig: Rise of the Six String really has to offer incredible value that we can't get from the music games we already have. Whether or not it offers that value remains to be seen.

Första spelet tycker jag var revolutionerande då det faktiskt introducerade trummor och sång. De andra spelen var finslipningar på sin höjd. I vilket fall, om RB3 är så revolutionerande som de påstår så kanske jag får en nytändning. Som det är nu har jag lessnat på genren.

Redigerat av HenkeEdge, 12 juni 2010 - 18:45.

Angående trummorna är väl bilden som släppts fejkad även om trummorna kommer se liknande ut? Tror/hoppas att det blir sju olika "färger" och inte fyra som nu.

Hoppas att de släpper ett Queen Rock Band nu när keyboard kommer, har ju ryktats om det.

Gitarren ser grym ut, trodde det skulle vara touch och inte så små knappar, kanske man får intresse av att börja spela gitarr?
Någon som vet om man kan spela med den i band tillsammans med andra på samma xbox eller om man bara kan spelar själv eller online?

Undrar om priset håller sig under 3000?

Redigerat av hakko504, 14 juni 2010 - 09:17.

Är det någon som vet när Rock Band 3/Power Gig visas på E3? Skulle gärna följa det.

Redigerat av hakko504, 15 juni 2010 - 08:36.

Troligen på Electronic Arts presskonferens kl 23 i kväll.

[edit] Nix, det kom inget där heller. [/edit]

Redigerat av pancreas, 19 juni 2010 - 00:58.

Lite pro guitar:
Rainbow in the dark

EDIT: Är det bara jag eller har de tagit bort Whammy-baren?

Det kan vara att de skruvat bort den inför den videon. Tycker dock stallet ser ut att sakna ett fäste för svajarmen. Svårt att se i videon.

Tycker gitarren ser lovande ut och hoppas den kommer att funka perfekt utan fördröjning osv.
Hoppas även på ett "hyffsat" pris.

Redigerat av Unregisterede32cf070, 20 juni 2010 - 09:41.

Det där är faktiskt hur coolt som helst. Och det är jävligt coolt.
Om Rock Band 3 kan göra mig till en bättre gitarrist blir det ett givet köp.

*edit*
Och där blev jag dessutom hypad inför det här. Undrar vad gitarren kommer att kosta? En lågkvalitets gitarr kostar ändå ca 2000 kr...

Redigerat av Unregisterede32cf070, 20 juni 2010 - 11:38.

Om den med knappar kommer att kosta 1500 - 2000 kr så gissar jag att den med strängar kommer att kosta mer. Fender verkar inte jättebilligt... De har iofs säkert någon "skräpserie" för 3-4000 kr/st också. Är inte jätteinsatt i elgitarrer.

Om den med knappar kommer att kosta 1500 - 2000 kr så gissar jag att den med strängar kommer att kosta mer. Fender verkar inte jättebilligt... De har iofs säkert någon "skräpserie" för 3-4000 kr/st också. Är inte jätteinsatt i elgitarrer.

Men tror du att de kommer kosta mer än 2000? De vill ju sälja gitarrer, även fast det är en fender tror jag inte den kommer kosta mer än 2000. Är ju knappast lika bra kvalite som en riktig gitarr.

Men tror du att de kommer kosta mer än 2000? De vill ju sälja gitarrer, även fast det är en fender tror jag inte den kommer kosta mer än 2000. Är ju knappast lika bra kvalite som en riktig gitarr.

Vad är det för modeller som Gibson tillverkar och inte Fender?

Vad hände här... Är rockband en simulator nu eller kan man fortfarande spela somn vanligt?

Är det någon som snappat upp hur gitarren med strängar fungerar?
Har svårt att tro att greppbrädan är tryckkänslig, så då borde det vara micken som snappar upp ljudet, vilket då kan innebära att man hela tiden måste ha gitarren perfekt stämd.

Redigerat av Unregistered1497, 21 juni 2010 - 17:37.