Rock Revolution for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

Rock Revolution is sub par. There's no way around that. The game is almost entirely covers (with the exception of the Finger Eleven and Linkin Park tracks), most of which are low quality. The 2D interface on a 3D background (which often includes strobe lights) is often very hard on the eyes. The style in which your health bar and power bar is displayed makes it very difficult to measure where you are on them. There are no vocals. The setlist is small, and the music maker is cumbersome.

RR did, however, have some brilliant ideas mixed in. Throughout the career mode you will find challenges in which the speed of the song changes with your combo multiplier, one where you must avoid "poison" notes, one where you must memorize a section of a song and replay it with nothing on the screen but "?" notes to mark the timing of the notes you memorized, and finally a challenge where you must replay a section of a song with no errors. These challenges, despite the flaws that run though RR, were a blast to play.

I wouldn't recommend RR for anything other than a rent, but I would love to see its ideas show up in higher budget games like Rock Band. This would have been a much better game if the interface wasn't so terrible.