There’s been recent rumblings about what the final set list will be for Rock Band 2 but more interesting, at least for this writer, is what else the game will provide right out of the box.
IGN reports (via Kotaku) that when gamers take home and open up their shiny new Rock Band 2 game this fall, you’ll be able to download the first game’s complete set list…for FREE.
Gamestop might just get a sudden influx of Rock Band discs as Activision EA will be relieving the slight inconvenience of disc-swapping. Rocking out will suffer no delays.
Via IGN Insider (through Kotaku)
[Edited: As our kind readers have pointed out, EA is the publisher of all things Rock Band and it's developed by Harmonix who created Guitar Hero and its sequel. Our bad.]
July 7th, 2008 at 2:21 am
Wow, this will really make the original Rock Band obsolete.
July 7th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Yup! Well, you figure that publishers rarely
make money off of previous iterations of a
game once the sequel is out; Gamestop gets that
money from its used games sales.
Good move on Activision’s EA’s part
July 7th, 2008 at 2:47 am
Please don’t give Activision the credit on this one. They are the publisher of Guitar Hero World Tour and they have already said that they are not making their game backwards compatible with the Guitar Hero 3 DLC. The credit here actually belongs to MTV Games who is the publisher of Rock Band 2 and is also making the DLC from Rock Band playable in Rock Band 2.
July 7th, 2008 at 5:11 am
Isn’t it Harmonix anyway? Not Activision?
July 7th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Harmonix is the developer and MTV/EA/Activision are the publishers/distributors
July 7th, 2008 at 8:38 am
So will my drums still work?
July 7th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Firstly, he does mean Activision, it’s just pretty badly worded. It would make more sense if he’d have used Guitar Hero in its place, as you will have to change discs to play the other games songs…
Secondly, they really better not do this… It’s like a giant F*** you to everyone who paid for Rock Band 1, or if they do then make it so it can only be downloaded through the Rock Band 1 disc (kinda like the Halo 3 Beta in Crackdown).
July 7th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Fixed the snafu
July 8th, 2008 at 8:41 am
@OwningXylophone:
Whoa! It’s a giant F-you?
People who bought Rock Band 1 have a full set of instruments and got to play those songs for a year longer than everyone else. I know me and my friends have got more than our money’s worth out of the game, and now we don’t even have to buy new instruments for the new one. I can’t wait for RB2 to come out.
I was hoping Harmonix would do this. With all the DLC moving over, it would be a huge blow to my OCD if I had to switch discs just to play Wave of Mutilation when it gets stuck in my head.
July 8th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Two things. 1, will we need Rock Band 1 for the Rock Band 1 songs on Rock Band 2? 2, Will the Wii have this? The Wii online store is crap. Utter crap.
July 9th, 2008 at 7:05 am
@web design
They haven’t said whether you’ll need to “validate” that
you have the first game, but it might be possible that
they do that. How they would is another question though.
And no…since the Wii has no available hard drive, there’d
be no way to store the 40+ songs that the first Rock Band
has.
September 8th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
So I guess this BS after all!