Rock Band Instruments Hands On (Verdict: Quality, but Can Your Livingroom Take the Mess?) [Rock Band Hardware]

Published: November 20, 2007, 9:23 pm

Tags: games, home entertainment, lightning round, rock band, rock band hardware, top, xbox, xbox 360

While the gaming press leaves you with impressions of the king of all rhythm games, Rock Band, I'm going to tackle the hardware, which the Best Buy in SF had plenty of as of this afternoon. Let me start out by saying that the gear looked smaller on the internet; I'm too old to have toy instruments cluttering up my livingroom. I guess that leaves lying about them being MIDI devices, since I'm not getting rid of this stuff any time soon. Guitar: Vs Guitar Hero 3's Wireless Axe, the Rock Band wired guitar has far better neck action, feeling less like a toy, a set of closely placed buttons up near the body that function identically. The neck is slim as a real guitar. The button presses happen with little throw, and don't click. The strum bar doesn't click either, but there is a notch at the end that feels more like strumming a guitar string than the GH3 guitar. I like it a lot better. If you haven't heard, the GH1 or 3 guitar can be used with Rock Band but not vice

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