With the upcoming release of Rock Band 3, gamers are about to get the chance to hit up the good old Joanna for even greater expansion of musical gaming. Though there were reports that the game would feature a Keytar, it now seems that those reports were false. "[The Keyboard] looks like a real keyboard track, and you are playing notes on the keyboard that if you were to step away from the game and were to play on a real piano, they would be the right notes," said project director Daniel Sussman.
Besides the new instrument, it would seem that Rock Band 3 is going to try and educate gamers with lessons that could enable gamers to play real instruments. For the new “Pro Mode,” players will have to do away with the standard setup that they have come to know and love. New guitars will be necessary to play the gametype, but it seems like they should be a welcome addition to gamers.
A fully functioning Fender Squier Stratocaster that “can tell where your fingers are based on technology in the neck and the bridge of the guitar," will be available for purchase states Harmonix PR rep John Drake. The other is a controller with "a field of buttons in each fret," according to USA Today, rather than the standard five buttons. "You can go from plucking single notes to power chords and bar chords, we have crazy stuff like tapping and slides," senior designer Sylvain Dubrofsky says.
With the addition of harmonized microphones, the drums will be getting a touch up as well; “three new cymbals are added,” but we do not know how they will be added to the standard drum kit.
Rock Band 3 is the next ‘true’ installment to the franchise, and with all the new additions, it could help turn the tide against falling sales and consumer indifference.
[Thanks 1UP]
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June 11, 2010
Kind of sounds like the comments of Dhani Harrison were mostly true, with the more realistic instruments and the teaching components. Got to admire the ambition on this one.