Rock Band 2

BiG D

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Confirmed in an interview at IGN

The important bits:
IGN: The most important question. Will Rock Band 1 DLC be playable in Rock Band 2?

Dan Teasdale: Yes. We've been developing Rock Band as a music platform from the start. All of the songs that you've purchased so far (and will be able to purchase in the future) are instantly playable and fully supported in Rock Band 2
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IGN: Once RB2 is out, can you still download and play new tracks on RB1?

Teasdale: Absolutely! We've been working hard with Microsoft and Sony to develop a way to share content between games, and we're really happy that we'll be the first game to support fully functional cross-title DLC.

As far as Harmonix is concerned, there's no difference between "Rock Band 1 DLC" and "Rock Band 2 DLC" – we're just releasing awesome songs every week onto the Rock Band platform, all of which are playable by the Rock Band titles that support DLC.
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IGN: Are any improvements being made to the instruments? And will we get wireless guitars for 360?

Teasdale: [...] And yes, all of your Rock Band instruments will still work with Rock Band 2.

We're also actively welcoming new peripheral makers to make instruments for our game. Just like real instruments, we want players to be able to choose what instruments they use, and we'll be expanding the choice of players alongside Rock Band 2.
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Ronin Storm

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So, you can play the songs in both games. That's fine but then what's the point of RB2? Just new instruments?
 
thatbloke

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Ronin Storm said:
So, you can play the songs in both games. That's fine but then what's the point of RB2? Just new instruments?
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I would *hope* a proper online Band World tour mode.

I find it mildly annoying that I can't play the proper Band World Tour mode over XBL and have to just do the quickplay option to play with other people.

Also, new instruments mean that my headset might actually work in RB. it seems my adaptors are knackered :(
 
BiG D

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Ronin Storm said:
So, you can play the songs in both games. That's fine but then what's the point of RB2? Just new instruments?
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There's some details in the interview, and Online World Tour is confirmed.

More:
Rock Band 2 takes all the lessons we've learned from making a multi-instrument music game, addresses them, then adds some amazing new ways for you to experience your music library that have never been seen in a music game before. We've been scouring forums and parties everywhere for what people liked and didn't like, and I'm pretty confident we've addressed everything I've heard people ask for.

On that note, we've also secured what I can easily say is the best setlist I've ever seen in a music game. The PR team would kill me if I revealed some early, but it reads like a who's who list of rock music. We have a couple of surprises that we'll be announcing soon regarding this.

Rock Band 2 really is the ultimate rock experience, and I think people will find it hard going back to the original Rock Band after playing Rock Band 2 for a few minutes.
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BiG D

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Oh shit! I missed a rather critical detail in that IGN article. Looks like it's "set to ship for Xbox 360 this September and PS3 later in the year."
 
Nanor

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I was kinda hoping that it would make you buy new instruments so Thatbloke would say he was definitely not going to buy it and then buy it. :p
 
thatbloke

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Nanor said:
I was kinda hoping that it would make you buy new instruments so Thatbloke would say he was definitely not going to buy it and then buy it. :p
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First of all, shush.

Second of all, a release date of September is right around when my Birthday is!!!

/me hatches a plan...
 
thatbloke

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HOLY CRAP

Chop Suey!

That's gonna be AWESOME!!!!

I also like the way they refer to RB2 as [strike]an expansion[/strike] a sequel in their article :D
 
Silk

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Ronin Storm said:
So, you can play the songs in both games. That's fine but then what's the point of RB2? Just new instruments?
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Just a guess, but I think the point is to... milk the franchise and make them more money from the braindead morons who buy the exact same game with a "2" slapped on the end.

People who bought yearly editions of sports games always made me chuckle, too.
 
thatbloke

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silkth said:
Just a guess, but I think the point is to... milk the franchise and make them more money from the braindead morons who buy the exact same game with a "2" slapped on the end.

People who bought yearly editions of sports games always made me chuckle, too.
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but d00d! u r liek soooooooo out of date if you still play the old version!!! l2p n00b!!!!!!!1111one!!!!
 
VibroAxe

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Awww damn it, I hoped I would only need to buy the game, but damnit a proper electronic drum kit is just too good to miss!

Whens this thing come out?
 
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