James Morton writes:
''Six months late, twice as expensive, and our exclusive songs were given to America before we had the game. Unforgivable?
Last week, I was playing PixelJunk Monsters Encore. It cost £1.99 and entertained me in the time between 100%-ing Grand Theft Auto IV and Rock Band's much delayed UK release. The £180 RRP package arrived on Friday of last week (unsurprisingly EA weren't going to send us one) and for some strange reason I decided it was a good chance to get some friends around, buy plenty of beer and snacks and warn the neighbours that they may hear loud noises. They did.
Rock Band, for those missing the recent rhythm music game genre revolution (or that South Park episode) is brought to us by Harmonix, the original developer of the Guitar Hero franchise, and takes their plastic guitar strumming concept and multiplies it by four, bringing back a secondary guitar to play the bass line, adding a microphone for SingStar/Karaoke Revolution vocals and a nice 'where am I going to store this' big plastic drum kit to play the… keyboard on? No it's probably the drums, isn't it?''
