Comments on: Rock Band expansion pack for Wii announced before Rock Band itself is even available for Wii

By: Consolas: Harmonix anuncia expansiones para Rock Band Wii y PS2 - Ecetia

Consolas: Harmonix anuncia expansiones para Rock Band Wii y PS2 - Ecetia — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:36:28 +0000

[...] acaba de anunciar que las versiones de Wii y PS2 de Rock Band también contarán con expansiones y ha aprovechado para anunciar la primera llamada Rock Band Track Pack Volume [...]

By: Bii

Bii — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:06:05 +0000

Thanks elmer, that answered my question.

By: elmer

elmer — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:05:41 +0000

The character creation isn’t in because all the background imagery on PS2 and Wii versions is pre-rendered as an FMV sequence. Apparently Harmonix deemed both platforms ‘incapable’ of rendering the ‘complex’ scenes in real-time, and as such the play is limited to what they can fit into video. Hence also why DLC isn’t possible on Wii – each song takes tens to hundreds of megabytes in FMV form rather than the megabytes to tens of megabytes one might expect of audio tracks + character models + animation and whatnot. Chalk it up to Laziness.

By: deepthought

deepthought — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:48:30 +0000

i love how rock band and gh3 introduce so many people to great music. my lil bro had never heard of kansas before gh. and forget it, he certainly would never have heard of dragonforce. let’s hear it for cultivating good (and, well, some ‘eh’) taste!

By: hugh g rection

hugh g rection — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:46:17 +0000

the original aint available because theres no downloadable content yet

By: Red Mozzie

Red Mozzie — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:42:02 +0000

I’d say you’ll be able to play with just this disc. As Dustin points out, disc swapping would be a real nuisance. The reasons they can call it an expansion is that you can’t buy the instruments separately at launch, so they know you’ve got the main Rock Band disc.

By: Bii

Bii — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:29:23 +0000

Why can’t they put in the character creator? Or why won’t they?

By: Liraco

Liraco — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:25:07 +0000

It would have been nice for 30 songs in that case. It’s nice to see they’ll at least do something about the non-downloadable content issue but not being able to pick and choose might really hurt the expansion’s sales. Still, I suppose it’s better than nothing.

By: Red Mozzie

Red Mozzie — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:17:47 +0000

On disc, of course.

By: Bii

Bii — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:14:15 +0000

Where’s Nirvana’s “Rape Me” song… I kind of figured it would be an option.