Since the Guitar Hero craze took off a few years ago, there's been a short list of hard-to-get acts that every fan of the genre has clamored for, bands so important that you have to imagine their people still balk at the idea of associating their hallowed names with plastic toy guitars. But money talks, and that list has been getting shorter and shorter over time, with AC/DC's "Let There Be Rock" serving as the Australian hard-rock juggernaut's rhythm-game debut in Rock Band 2. Seems like that would open up the door for a nice downloadable track pack or even full album, no?
A bit of sly employee sleuthing reveals more AC/DC may be on the way to Rock Band 2, but it won't come over your Internet connection. One of Destructoid's ballsier users--who happens to work for Wal-Mart--posted this employee memo shot, which pretty much speaks for itself.
As hard as Harmonix has been pushing DLC lately, with downloadable albums from the Red Hot Chii Peppers, Foo Fighters, and No Doubt all in the pipeline, it's a little puzzling that you may be grabbing a disc-based AC/DC pack in a physical store at some point. That also begs the question: would these songs install to your hard drive, Rock Band export-style, or will you have to swap in this disc every time you want to play them? AC/DC seems like one of the few bands with enough clout to demand these kinds of shenanigans without Harmonix just balking at them, but then, if this thing actually comes to pass, we may never know the answer.
On the upside, the Amazon listing for Live at Donington indicates you'd get basically every AC/DC song you could possibly want out of an AC/DC add-on, even if they're all live versions. Time to dust off your man-sized schoolboy uniforms, perhaps?
- Thunderstruck
- Shoot To Thrill
- Back in Black
- Fire Your Guns
- Jailbreak
- The Jack
- Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
- Moneytalks
- Hells Bells
- High Voltage
- Whole Lotta Rosie
- You Shook Me All Night Long
- TNT
- Let There Be Rock
- Highway To Hell
- For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)