Reviews from

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A fun little time waster for a song or two I suppose, but that's about it. I guess the gameplay just isn't for me. It's not bad, but definitely doesn't feel like Rock Band. Switching between lanes of music & tapping the buttons in rhythm is mildly entertaining, but at the same time, I can achieve a similar feeling just tapping my fingers on a table while the radio's playing. It's worth a peek, but didn't keep me engaged.

I prefer the gameplay of Unplugged, but this has a much larger setlist (all the existing RB DLC) and a better "spinning plates" feeling as you switch between tracks. Thankfully there are hacks available to use the powerups offline - the game is severely lacking without them.

Pretty fun game for people who suck at Rock Band, like me. But seriously, a great and easy to play version of Rock Band that has a decent track list, but has a good degree of compatibility with past Rock Band DLC.

An interesting take if you have liked Amplitude or the PSP version of Rock Band back in the day. This one is played only with the PS3 controller, so no guitar or drums support.

Games I Dislike That Everybody Else Likes

Hardly even a phone game, takes everything that made the Rock Band series special and effortlessly replayable then dilutes it into this samey, cheapo toss-off. Soundtrack is mostly antiseptic, a scant mix of of-the-era stinkers and songs you've already seen in these types of games like 18,000 times before - but even with Rock Band 3's DLC support this is still a chore to play through. Its point system is just so lame, mashing all the instruments together into the same screen gives way less of an incentive to replay songs. Plus now it isn't even playable anymore lmfao.

This is one of my favorite rhythm games of all time.
As someone who never really "got the band back together" as it were, this single-player outing was perfect for someone like me.
It's so simple and didn't require a big plastic guitar. It's two lanes of notes, multiplied by however many instruments were represented. So you'd jump from bass to drums to vocals, jamming along with a Left note / Right note track till you maxed that instrument's combo multiplier. Once you passed a checkpoint, you'd gain permanent multiplier upgrades depending on how many lanes were leveled up.

This game allowed you to import all the DLC songs you bought for other Rock Band titles. That is FANTASTIC value.

Sadly this is a game that required you to be connected online at all times, locking you out of the different supers you can use when your special meter is full. Seeing as the servers are dead and the game is delisted, nobody will ever get to use those abilities ever again.