What is arguably THE best music game series running today is growing into it’s third installment, and as I reported last month, Rock Band 3 is growing to include keyboards!
The keyboard in question is a 25-key MIDI keyboard, and is integrated into full game play via charts like those seen in the screenshot above.
If you thought that was enough expansion for the 3rd game, you thought wrong! Rock Band 3 is also expanding to what they call “Pro Mode”, which replaces the typical color charts with real chords to get players acclimated to actually playing real instruments. To take advantage of that, there will be (surprise!) new controllers, including a Fender Stratocaster and Fender Mustang Pro with REAL STRINGS!
Not enough to get excited about? Rock Band 3 includes 83 songs on disc (not including all the hundreds available as downloadable content), and an initial list of tracks has been revealed (RILO KILEY! METRIC! SPACEHOG! QUEEN!), which I’ve included below.
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 Stripes1990s
Been Caught Stealing — Jane’s Addiction
In the Meantime — Spacehog
Plush — Stone Temple Pilots
Walkin’ on the Sun — Smash Mouth1980s
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 Ranger1960s-1970s
Bohemian Rhapsody — Queen
Break On Through — The Doors
Crosstown Traffic — Jimi Hendrix
There is no set release date for Rock Band 3 yet, but with E3 coming next week, I have a hunch we’ll know very shortly when to expect the game. I’d imagine this Fall.