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This my review of the game LEGO: Rockband.

With me wanting get this and just export the songs comes a large review of mixed opinions and a final conclusion. I have only played this for one day but I don't think I could play for much longer with having finished the story (a couple songs away) and having more than half the achievements I wasn't too pleased with this, so as we do.

Songs:

As you'll obviously know in a Rock Band game you play songs, and as in usual Rock Band games you're welcomed to well thought out set lists. The songs by all means made me really want this game, the of it only have 45 songs was something I was very pleased with as Rock Band has about 67 songs for the EU release which I have got and Rock Band 2 which I have had for a year now had 84 songs, so a bit of disappointment there. Bringing up disappointment is that you will have to put the LEGO: Rock Band disc to export the songs but unlike the original you have to download them, which is a pain in the ass, as I have to wait for to get back home to do so as the the Bandwidth here is not good at all. With me having a lot of DLC I found it was peculiar that "She's a Genius" was not allowed and yet "My Curse" was.

UI:

This was what having a LEGO style Rock Band? Well then this game was just another LEGO game but apart from adventure was, you know a Rock Band game. The characters are confusing as you have to buy these 'Mini figures' to actually get more clothes. The layout of the gameplay was the norm but again a bit LEGO style which didn't offer much and I was thought was very bland.

Story:

The story was not a story. It was just you playing Rock Band with words and a few cut scenes. What I found the most terrible about this Story mode was that I had to play "Check yes Juliet" 4 times in Story mode without my wishes on doing so as I now hate the song. With the cut scenes again the game doesn't tell a story with them and I didn't get my "Rock Adventure" as advertised. Something I did indeed enjoy from this experience was being able to see the LEGO fellas pop up on the screen like in Ghostbusters, though sadly only when you play that "Power Play" or whatever.

Customisation:

As I said earlier the character customisation was horrible and I did not enjoy one hairstyle. The "Rock Den" was terrible as when you put stuff in it you can't get a feel to what you are trying to pull off and end up just a mess of a room. instruments as always never appeal to me in Rock Band.

Gameplay/Modifiers:

The gameplay is up to standard and the way I love it, so no reason get into that. Let's see having the feature of the the auto drum kick and the new "Super Easy" difficulty was able to let my 6 year old cousin finish a song on this game, as before could not actually focus on it and just randomly wail on the drums. I did not try out the "Shortened" songs but don't think I really need to.

Over all replay value:

This is a game I cannot see myself play ever again as when you are done with the Story mode you have nothing else to do, such online play. You can always export the songs but you'd probably be sick of them by now.

Conclusion:

I do not recommend this to anyone but the parent who is about to kill the child after failing a song in Rock Band 2, but if you are going to just export the songs find another way but buying this. All in all this game does not add any more respect to Harmonix from but maybe even bad, though it wasn't in full development from them. Decent game, lacking any real difference.