Rock Revolution

by Konami

Product Features

• Rock out on drums, but also wail on your guitar or bass in the same game, use the drum kit or a guitar freely in Jam mode and record up to 8 seperate tracks
• Online persistent scoreboards allow performance comparison with other players around the world
• Up to 15 cool and realistic characters in stunning unique and authentic venues
• Choose from 40 plus songs to jam, also downloadable songs and song packs available after initial release and a broad range of music styles
• Online and offline multiplayer, versus, coop and band battle with rehearsal mode and career mode

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001DAVT06
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches ; 5 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 14, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,309 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #28 in Video Games > PlayStation 3 > Rhythm > Musical Instruments
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PLAYSTATION 3 | Edition: Game

Amazon.com

Release your inner rockstar or allow your friends the privilege of picking up an axe or pounding the skins with you to 40 mind bending rock and roll tracks. Unleash your creative juices in the Jam Mode where you can create your own music in a state of the art multi-track studio. This is the musical revolution the world has been waiting for.

Title	Artist
All The Small Things	blink-182
Chop Suey!	System Of A Down
Cum On Feel The Noize	Quiet Riot (Slade)
Dance, Dance	Fall Out Boy
Detroit Rock City	Kiss
Dr. Feelgood	Motley Crue
Highway Star	Deep Purple
Holy Wars… The Punishment Due	Megadeth
Pull Me Under	Dream Theater
Somebody Told Me	The Killers
Spoonman	Soundgarden
Stone Cold Crazy	Queen
The Joker And The Thief	Wolfmother
Spirit Of Radio	Rush
We're Not Gonna Take It	Twisted Sister
White Room	Cream
Youth Gone Wild	Skid Row
Dirty Little Secret	All American Rejects
Last Resort	Papa Roach
Round And Round	Ratt
Still Of The Night	Whitesnake
Are You Gonna Be My Girl	Jet
No One Like You	Scorpions
Diary Of Jane	Breaking Benjamin
Blitzkrieg Bop	The Ramones
Falling Away From Me	Korn
The End Of Heartache	Killswitch Engage
Run To The Hills	Iron Maiden
Walk	Pantera
Heading Out To The Highway	Judas Priest
Won't Get Fooled Again	The Who
Pain	Three Days Grace
All My Life	Foo Fighters
Am I Evil?	Diamond Head / Metallica
Bad Reputation	Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Our Truth	Lacuna Coil
Sk8er Boi	Avril Lavigne
Kiss Me Deadly	Lita Ford
Magic Man	Heart
Paralyzer	Finger Eleven
Given Up	Linkin Park

Product Description

Release your inner rockstar or allow your friends the privilege of picking up an axe or pounding the skins with you to 40 mind bending rock and roll tracks! Unleash your creative juices in the Jam Mode where you can create your own music in a state of the art multi-track studio! This is the musical revolution the world has been waiting for!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Pales in comparison to Rock Band or GH, January 10, 2009

By 

Mark Harris "Darth Falkon" (El Paso, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Rock Revolution (Video Game)

When I saw the song list for this game, I figured, what the heck? How could it possibly be as bad as all the gamers claim? So I bought it, since it was only twenty bucks. I wish I had my twenty bucks back.

The game itself isn't that bad, but it is not even in the same zip code as the far superior Rock Band and Guitar Hero titles. Once you've gotten used to seeing the 3-D scrolling of the notes in RB and GH, the vertical scroll in Rock Revolution is a major downgrade. It is also much harder to get a feel for exactly when the notes should be strummed; I got used to the GH timing almost immediately, but this game was much more awkward (I'd swear I was hitting the notes in rhythm, but kept missing them).

Then there is the calibration. When I played my very first song, I noticed that there was at least a half-second lag time, and I had to strum the notes early or I'd miss them. After trying to calibrate the lag three times (a process which was in itself difficult), it was only slightly better, and there's nothing as freaking annoying as playing a game like this and missing notes you KNOW you hit.

Another feature that sounded like a good idea but ended up being nothing more than irritating was the "poisoned notes" sprinkled throughout each song. These are notes that are thrown at you along with the "real" notes, but they are hollow instead of colored. If you hit these "poisoned notes," you lose your score multiplier, and even worse, if you hit too many of them, the song ends immediately (like getting booed off the stage for missing too many notes). This sounded like a novel idea, but I found it very frustrating. I mean, the whole point of these types of games is to hit every note you see; imagine playing Space Invaders, but being penalized for shooting certain aliens. Not as cool in practice as in theory, in my opinion.

The final strike against the game was the fact that the awesome track list includes almost no original artists. While the cover bands do a more than capable job of performing the songs, it just isn't the same; very few people can accurately mimic the vocal stylings of legends like Geddy Lee and Bruce Dickinson, and it's largely their voices that make those songs rock as hard as they do. Kudos to the other games for realizing this and now having almost all original artists on their newest titles.

Overall, a very disappointing 2/5 stars from me. I only hope and pray that some of these songs may someday find their way onto the Guitar Hero set list. THAT would be worth a helluva lot more than twenty bucks.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not as bad as it seems!!!!, October 25, 2008

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E. rivett "goldberg" (Israel) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Rock Revolution (Video Game)

Well ,this game arrived in the post yesterday,I had ordered this game before reading editorial reviews cos i was pretty sure it was gonna be an o.k game, and generally speaking it is.

The songlist consists of cover versions of some pretty decent songs and they are generally executed very well.

The vertical 2D guitar display isnt that difficult a hang of,and isn't that bad.There is a tutorial which helps u to get through the game and is pretty intuitive.

The graphix and animations are passable, but being the type of game it is ,its not that crucial to the gaming experience,what is , is the gameplay and here is where rock revolution can decide whether u love or hate it!

I personally first time played 2 hrs pretty much non stop and generally had no problem with the game, ther was the general overall feeling of playing a guitar ,being that alot of the songs consist of chords as opposed to notes , meaning that your sliding your fingers up and down the neck of the guitar quite alot, notes are more difficult to hit especially when they come in groups and and are moving pretty fast down the neck.

Difficulty levels are overall accurate , each song has its difficulty level as well ,so for example if you play a song with a low difficulty level ,it's still gonna be pretty easy to pull off even at the games medium difficulty level and obviously if you pick a song with a hard difficulty level its gonna be quite a challenge to pull off at the games medium difficulty level.Now this brings me on to the frustrating part of the gameplay , because of the aforementioned the chords and notes come down in way that makes it very difficult to play this is not entirely due to the games difficulty level , but more of a flaw in the games structure, this is not the case with all songs ,but there a afew that u feel just haven't been layed out right, but being this is konamis first attempt at this, we can cut them some slack and hope thta RR2 will correct these issues.

I was expecting a better game from Konami considering they had done "Guitar Freaks.Dance Dance revolution and Karoke revoltion". All in all it's not to bad definately worth a rental, and for some a purchase.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad for a change of pace, cheap way to play new songs!, June 15, 2009

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Daniel L. Bateman (Central VA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Rock Revolution (Video Game)

Since all the Rock Revolution songs are covers I would never have never bought it if it was more expensive. Pleasant surprise though, the covers are generally very good quality, they're not much more different-sounding than live recordings by the original artist would be. Kudos to the cover band(s). If you're picky about songs sounding exactly like the album or radio version, the cover songs will probably bother you.

You can play drums, guitar, or bass, there are no vocals on Rock Revolution. I played with a Rock Band Guitar and Rock Band Drums, also tried Guitar Hero World Tour drums as described below. The Rock Band guitar worked fine with this game.

The vertical note scrolling isn't great, but I got used to it. The circular shape of the notes was ok and they were bright, better than the "Chinese hats" or whatever those Guitar Hero notes are, but the bright clear rectangles of Rock Band are the best in my opinion.

As far as drumming, the kick pedal notation as "just another note" is jarring, I did get used to it but never completely liked it. I was using the Rock Band drums and they work well for the most part, but the Guitar Hero World Tour drums weren't great with this game, the note mapping was too far off (especially on the cymbals), much like using the Guitar Hero drums in Rock Band.

On the guitar side, it seemed like there were more chords and I felt like I was actually playing Electric Guitar more than Rock Band. There's also an occasional notation in certain songs when you're supposed to just wail on a note; you just have to strum a certain speed or above and hold the note. That was a nice touch and seemed somewhat realistic.

As far as the actual gameplay, you're really just playing sets of songs, there is no character creation or tour. Playing the basic songs was fine, but I found most of other things like avoiding "poison" notes or playing without the notes visible were much more frustrating than fun. So I found myself staying in quick play mode more than the career.

I played this game a few times but ultimately, like after playing Guitar Hero World Tour, went back to Rock Band 2. But if you don't pay much for it, it's worth it for an alternative take on a music game, and to play songs like Heart's "Magic Man."

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