One of the reasons I decided to get a Xbox360 was because of Rock Band. RB is available for the other systems, but Wii doesn’t have a storage story and PS3 is too expensive, so the 360 was the best choice. Shortly after I bought the Xbox, I bought RB2 (October 14^th I think).

I actually scored a great deal on it, thanks to RFD. The RB2 Special Edition (includes drums, guitar and mic) retails for about $189 or $199, but it was priced in the Sears catalog at $169! Plus there was a $20 off coupon so I paid $149 for the package.

Because it was so cheap, the tradeoff was that I wouldn’t get it on the release date of October 19^th, and instead had to wait until October 30^th. Not a big deal, except the date got pushed back to November 13^th and finally November 20^th. I was ok with the wait though since I had lots of other stuff to play.

The great thing about Rock Band 2 is that there are a ton of songs! There are 84 songs on disc, 20 free DLC that comes with buying RB2 new, 3 free DLC songs from RB1 and 55 songs from the RB1 disc (although you have to pay a $5 licensing charge). That’s 162 songs in total! Even if I don’t like as many of the songs as I do on Karaoke Revolution, it’s still a lot of variety.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: games, music, rockband, shopping, xbox