Rock Revolution for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

This game had some songs that I loved and wish were on guitar hero or rock band because the way that this game is set up the gameplay sucks. Thenotes come straight down from the top and are offcenter so its even worse on a bigscreen tv. Maybe future games will be better

When you first take a look at this game you may see it as a ripoff of Guitar Hero or Rock Band. Well considering Konami basically invented rhythm gaming it would be ludicrous to say that. However I will agree it is a little too late for Konami to jump into the American plastic instrument market.

Let's talk about career mode, this is where you'll spend most of your time. It starts off where you do 6 "events" on a disc. You finish 3 and you move on to another disc, and then for a final thing you do a 3 song gig similar to if you were to make a setlist in Rock Band. Repeat this formula a few times and you have career mode.

If you finish 3 events on a disc it turns gold. If you finish all 6 it turns platinum. Events range from playing a song normally, to playing a section of the song perfectly, playing a section without a note chart from memory, playing with dodging false notes, or playing with the scroll speed randomly going fast and slow.

The songs. Here is where the controversy is. They are all covers. Except the Linkin Park and Finger Eleven songs. There are a few covers that are pretty good, mostly the female sang ones, then there are are plenty of average ones, then there is terrible ones. Chop Suey is a perfect example of terrible, look it up on Youtube, you'll cringe. That's just the vocal covers. For the instrument covers they aren't too bad, there are a couple that aren't perfect like All My Life but nothing terrible. Just remember even Guitar Hero started out with all covers.

The overall gameplay of the game is basically the same as Rock Band. For guitar you have your 5 colored lanes, and you hit notes. Drums are a little different. You can switch between 5 lanes and 7 lanes, depending on the set your using, the RB kit would use the 5 lane. The only difference here is that the bass pedal shows up as an orange note in the middle similar to drum mania.

Honestly if you can get past the fact that every song is a cover, it's a decent game. Rent it at least.