You heard me. They are due in equal measures to the fact that I'm so excited about this item here, and that said item forecasts Hell's Ice Age.
The Beatles: RockBand. It was announced almost a year ago, but it was only on Monday at the E3 video game conference that demos, introduced by Ringo and Macca themselves, were revealed to the public. It's a gorgeous sight. The most famous and most successful band of all time has been notoriously reticent about licensing its music (or likenesses, logos, etc.) to, well, anyone. They ain't even on iTunes. Almost never do they show up in ads or soundtracks. And yet, on 9/9/09 we will see the release of the newest installment of the RockBand franchise, dovoted to the Fab Four and chock full of untouchables. It's a fully independent game, built ground-up rather than as an expansion of previous releases. Not only will it feature 45 classic Beatles tunes (only ten have so far been revealed), but renderings of the Lads themselves in highly accurate detail-- from chronological settings like The Cavern, the Ed Sullivan set, and Shey Stadium to models of instruments according to when they were actually used like Paul playing a Höfner early on and later a Rickenbacker. It's clear that the most painstaking attention has been put into this project in order to appease fans, and rock historians.
Take a look for yourself.
The demo.
The Beatles: RockBand. It was announced almost a year ago, but it was only on Monday at the E3 video game conference that demos, introduced by Ringo and Macca themselves, were revealed to the public. It's a gorgeous sight. The most famous and most successful band of all time has been notoriously reticent about licensing its music (or likenesses, logos, etc.) to, well, anyone. They ain't even on iTunes. Almost never do they show up in ads or soundtracks. And yet, on 9/9/09 we will see the release of the newest installment of the RockBand franchise, dovoted to the Fab Four and chock full of untouchables. It's a fully independent game, built ground-up rather than as an expansion of previous releases. Not only will it feature 45 classic Beatles tunes (only ten have so far been revealed), but renderings of the Lads themselves in highly accurate detail-- from chronological settings like The Cavern, the Ed Sullivan set, and Shey Stadium to models of instruments according to when they were actually used like Paul playing a Höfner early on and later a Rickenbacker. It's clear that the most painstaking attention has been put into this project in order to appease fans, and rock historians.
Take a look for yourself.
The demo.
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