
Guitar Hero, Rock Band & Co. Devenir la rock star de son salon.
- Introduction
- Le XXIème siècle sera digital ou ne sera pas
- Le phénomène Guitar Hero
- Rock Band, le concurrent de poids
- Les alternatives
Rock Band, le concurrent de poids
Par Jérôme Mais qui se cache donc derrière la suite de jeux Rock Band ? Harmonix bien sûr ! Encore me direz-vous ? Et oui... Mais pour la petite histoire, alors que Harmonix et RedOctane travaillaient encore main dans la main sur Guitar Hero, les deux sociétés furent vendues séparément. D'un côté RedOctane partit avec Activision, et embarqua Neversoft pour continuer le développement de la franchise Guitar Hero, et de l'autre MTV Games déboursa la bagatelle de 175 millions de dollars pour s'octroyer les services de Harmonix. Et vingt mois de travail et 200 millions de dollars plus tard, Rock Band voyait le jour avec comme avantage de pouvoir utiliser les licences musicales de MTV. Et devant le succès de ce premier volet, Rock Band 2 mettra à peine un an pour voir le jour.
Oui. Et non. Déjà sur la forme, si Guitar Hero était estampillé Gibson, Rock Band se range lui du côté de Fender. Mais en terme de jouabilité, les deux franchises restent très proches. La façon de jouer reste identique : on gratte en appuyant sur le(s) bouton(s) de la bonne couleur au bon moment et le tour est joué. Reste que les puristes trouvent Rock Band moins approximatif que son concurrent direct. Plus fin. Il vous faudra en effet être plus précis pour éviter les fausses notes dans ce jeu. Et si le principe du "Star Power" existe aussi ici, appelé pour le coup "Overdrive", le guitariste en herbe se verra en plus récompensé en réalisant parfaitement ses solos de guitare pour toujours réaliser de meilleurs scores. Mais le gros avantage de Rock Band, et même si cela ne sera plus abordé par la suite, reste sa plateforme de téléchargement mise à jour presque chaque semaine. Bien sur, la plupart des titres sont payants, mais on compte à ce jour pas moins de 800 morceaux supplémentaires, provenant de plus de 250 artistes différents. De quoi largement occuper vos longues soirées d'hiver.
Pour finir, un petit détail qui peut avoir son importance. La plupart des guitares de Guitar Hero sont compatibles avec Rock Band. Et inversement. Enfin, dans le cas présent, on peut au moins vous assurer que l'instrument fourni avec Guitar Hero III : Legend Of Rock fonctionne parfaitement sur tous les jeux. C'est déjà ça. Et vous n'avez plus d'excuse pour comparer.
Rock Band

Tracklist :
Les Rolling Stones - "Gimme Shelter" / Aerosmith - "Train Kept a Rollin' (reprise)" / The Who - "Won't Get Fooled Again" / Boston - "Foreplay/Long Time" / Mountain - "Mississippi Queen (reprise)" / The Police - "Next to You" / David Bowie - "Suffragette City" / Black Sabbath - "Paranoid (reprise)" / Blue Oyster Cult - "Don't Fear the Reaper" / The Ramones - "Blitzkrieg Bop" / Deep Purple - "Highway Star" / KISS - "Detroit Rock City" / Molly Hatchet - "Flirtin' With Disaster" / The Outlaws - "Green Grass & High Tides (reprise)" / Sweet - "Ballroom Blitz (reprise)" / Rush - "Tom Sawyer (reprise)" / Bon Jovi - "Wanted Dead or Alive" / The Clash - "Should I Stay or Should I Go" / Faith No More - "Epic" / R.E.M. - "Orange Crush" / Iron Maiden - "Run to the Hills (reprise)" / Foo Fighters - "Learn to Fly" / Metallica - "Enter Sandman" / Nirvana - "In Bloom" / Stone Temple Pilots - "Vasoline" / Weezer - "Say It Ain't So" / Smashing Pumpkins - "Cherub Rock" / Radiohead - "Creep" / Beastie Boys - "Sabotage" / Hole - "Celebrity Skin" / Garbage - "I Think I'm Paranoid" / Soundgarden - "Black Hole Sun" / Pixies - "Wave of Mutilation" / Blur - "Beetlebum (reprise)" / The Hives - "Main Offender" / Queens of the Stone Age - "Go With the Flow" / The Strokes - "Reptilia" / Jet - "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" / OK Go - "Here It Goes Again" / Nine Inch Nails - "The Hand That Feeds" / Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Maps" / Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Dani California" / Coheed and Cambria - "Welcome Home" / Fall Out Boy - "Dead on Arrival" / The Killers - "When You Were Young" / The New Pornographers - "Electric Version" / Muse - "Hysteria" / Les Wampas - "Manu Chao"
Rock Band Song Pack 1

Tracklist :
30 Seconds to Mars - "The Kill" / All American Rejects - "Move Along" / Blink – 182 - "All the Small Things" / Boston - "More Than a Feeling" / David Bowie - "Moonage Daydream" / Faith No More - "We Care A Lot" / Grateful Dead - "Truckin'" / The Hives - "Die, All Right!" / KISS - "Calling Dr. Love" / Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Gimme' Three Steps" / Nine Inch Nails - "March of the Pigs" / Oasis - "Live Forever" / Paramore - "Crushcrushcrush" / The Police - "Synchronicity II" / Queens of the Stone Age - "Little Sister" / Ramones - "Teenage Lobotomy" / Smashing Pumpkins - "Siva" / Stone Temple Pilots - "Interstate Love Song" / Weezer - "Buddy Holly" / Wolfmother - "Joker & the Thief"
Rock Band Song Pack 2

Tracklist :
The Cars – "Just What I Needed" / Devo – "Girl U Want" / Disturbed – "Indestructible" / Duran Duran – "Rio" / Fall Out Boy – "This Ain’t a Scene" / Garbage – "Why Do You Love Me" / Judas Priest – "You Got Another Thing Comin" / Lynyrd Skynyrd – "Simple Man" / Maximo Park – "Girls Who Play Guitars" / Mötley Crüe – "Saints of Los Angeles" / Nine Inch Nails – "The Perfect Drug" / Papa Roach – "Time is Running Out" / Pixies – "Monkey Gone to Heaven" / The Police – "Message in a Bottle" / Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Snow (Hey Oh)" / Smashing Pumpkins – "Zero" / Weezer – "El Scorcho"
/ Angels & Airwaves – "It Hurts" / Blondie - "Call Me" / Avenged Sevenfold – "Afterlife"
AC/DC Live : Rock Band Track Pack

Tracklist :
"Thunderstruck" / "Shoot to Thrill" / "Back in Black" / "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be" / "Heatseeker" / "Fire Your Guns" / "Jailbreak" / "The Jack" / "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" / "Moneytalks" / "Hells Bells" / "High Voltage" / "Whole Lotta Rosie" / "You Shook Me All Night Long" / "T.N.T." / "Let There Be Rock" / "Highway To Hell" / "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)"
Rock Band 2

Tracklist :
AC/DC - "Let There Be Rock" / AFI - "Girl’s Gone Grey" / Alanis Morissette - "You Oughta Know" / Alice in Chains - "Man in the Box" / Allman Brothers - "Ramblin’ Man" / Avenged Sevenfold - "Almost Easy" / Bad Company - "Shooting Star" / Beastie Boys - "So Whatcha Want" / Beck - "E-Pro" / Bikini Kill - "Rebel Girl" / Billy Idol - "White Wedding Pt. I" / Blondie - "One Way or Another" / Bob Dylan - "Tangled Up in Blue" / Bon Jovi - "Livin’ on a Prayer" / Cheap Trick - "Hello There" / Devo - "Uncontrollable Urge" / Dinosaur Jr. - "Feel the Pain" / Disturbed - "Down with the Sickness" / Dream Theater - "Panic Attack" / Duran Duran - "Hungry Like the Wolf" / Elvis Costello - "Pump It Up" / Fleetwood Mac - "Go Your Own Way" / Foo Fighters - "Everlong" / Guns N’ Roses - "Shackler’s Revenge" / Interpol - "PDA" / Jane’s Addiction - "Mountain Song" / Jethro Tull - "Aqualung" / Jimmy Eat World - "The Middle" / Joan Jett - "Bad Reputation" / Journey - "Anyway You Want It" / Judas Priest - "Painkiller" / Kansas - "Carry On Wayward Son" / L7 - "Pretend We’re Dead" / Lacuna Coil - "Our Truth" / Linkin Park - "One Step Closer" / Lit - "My Own Worst Enemy" / Lush - "De-Luxe" / Mastodon - "Colony of Birchmen" / Megadeth - "Peace Sells" / Metallica - "Battery" / Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Where’d You Go" / Modest Mouse - "Float On" / Motorhead - "Ace of Spades" / Nirvana - "Drain You" / Norman Greenbaum - "Spirit in the Sky" / Panic at the Disco - "Nine in the Afternoon" / Paramore - "That’s What You Get" / Pearl Jam - "Alive" / Presidents of the USA - "Lump" / Rage Against the Machine - "Testify" / Ratt - "Round & Round" / Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Give it Away" / Rise Against - "Give it All" / Rush - "The Trees" / Silversun Pickups - "Lazy Eye" / Smashing Pumpkins - "Today" / Social Distortion - "I Was Wrong" / Sonic Youth - "Teenage Riot" / Soundgarden - "Spoonman" / Squeeze - "Cool for Cats" / Steely Dan - "Bodhitsattva" / Steve Miller Band - "Rock’n Me" / Survivor - "Eye of the Tiger" / System of a Down - "Chop Suey" / Talking Heads - "Psycho Killer" / Tenacious D - "Master Exploder" / Testament - "Souls of Black" / The Donnas - "New Kid in School" / The Go-Go’s - "We Got the Beat" / The Grateful Dead - "Alabama Getaway" / The Guess Who - "American Woman" / The Muffs - "Kids in America" / The Offspring - "Come Out & Play (Keep ‘em Separated)" / The Replacements - "Alex Chilton" / The Who - "Pinball Wizard"
Bonus :
Abnormality - "Visions" / Anarchy Club - "Get Clean" / Bang Camaro - "Night Lies" / Breaking Wheel - "Shoulder to the Plow" / The Libyans - "Neighborhood" / The Main Drag - "A Jagged Gorgeous Winter" / Speck - "Conventional Lover" / The Sterns - "Supreme Girl" / That Handsome Devil -"Rob the Prez-O-Dent"
The Beatles : Rock Band

Tracklist :
"I Want To Hold Your Hand" / "I Feel Fine" / "Day Tripper" / "Paperback Writer" / "Revolution" / "Don't Let Me Down" / "I Saw Her Standing There" / "Boys" / "Do You Want To Know A Secret" / "Twist and Shout" / "I Wanna Be Your Man" / "A Hard Day's Night" / "Can't Buy Me Love" / "Eight Days a Week" / "Ticket To Ride" / "Drive My Car" / "I'm Looking Through You" / "If I Needed Someone" / "Taxman" / "Yellow Submarine" / "And Your Bird Can Sing" / "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help From My Friends" / "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" / "Getting Better" / "Good Morning Good Morning" / "I Am The Walrus" / "Hello Goodbye" / "Dear Prudence" / "Back In the U.S.S.R." / "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" / "Birthday" / "Helter Skelter" / "Hey Bulldog" / "Come Together" / "Something" / "Octopus's Garden" / "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" / "Here Comes the Sun" / "Dig a Pony" / "I Me Mine" / "I Got a Feeling" / "Get Back" / "Within You Without You/ Tomorrow Never Knows"