Apr 13 2009
Rock Band, Guns N Roses, And The Future Of Halo
So Rock Band is planning on releasing a full Guns N Roses album via Xbox Live and Playstation Network, and the WiiWare store, for your playing enjoyment. You’ll have the option to either purchase tracks individually for $1.99 a pop, or $19.99 for the entire disc. Now when I read this at first I figured Appetite for Destruction, the band’s legendary disc, would be perfect for a music sim game, and there really isn’t any other 80’s hair band album that would be more fun to play. But no, no, the folks at Harmonix have a different idea entirely of what’s fun to play, as Chinese Democracy, the it’s not really a Guns N Roses album because Axl Rose is the only original band member left album, is what you’ll be able to avoid downloading.
That just doesn’t make much sense to me. Who wants to play Guns N Roses without Slash’s guitar riffs? What’s the point really? I’d rather play Welcome To The Jungle over and over again on Guitar Hero III before I would pay to play new GNR on Rock Band.
And finally, Halo and Microsoft had a fairly large announcement? And that was something to the effect of what we can all expect from the Halo franchise in the future. Apparently Microsoft is planning on having the next Halo installment encompass the web, Xbox 360, and even the mobile realm. Meaning we can see something to do with Halo in possibly an MMO form?
Something where you can also take your Halo MMO-ing on the go with you via an iPhone app?
At least that’s what I’m picturing, and as long as I don’t have to try and compete with keyboard/mouse computer gamers with only by Xbox controller, I’m all for a Halo MMO. Just don’t integrate the two realms, because I like playing Halo on my Xbox best, but I don’t want to have my ass repeatedly handed to me by PC gamers with an infinitely faster FPS setup.
