Would Have Been Better at 40
Green Day:Rock Band is another installment in the rock band franchise, and like The Beatles Rock Band it follows only one band through their career. While Green Day is not as prestigious as The Beatles they do make a fun game. There are forty-seven songs on disc along with six songs that are compatible with Green Day Rock Band. Those six songs being the six green day songs already to be released as downloadable content for previous rock band games.
Green Day Rock Band shipped with forty-seven songs. Among those songs are the full albums Dookie and American Idiot. There are also two songs from Insomniac and Warning and three songs from Nimrod. The downloadable content songs that are compatible with Green Day Rock Band are all off of Green Day’s newest album, 21st Century Breakdown. The rest of the songs off their newest album shipped on disc. All forty-seven songs can be exported to all of the Rock Band games (excluding The Beatles Rock Band) for a nominal fee.
There are only three venues in Green Day Rock Band, which I might add is pretty disappointing They could have had a few more venues but it is not really that important. The entirety of Dookie is played in an unnamed warehouse. The warehouse represents the “underground” days of Green Day. This venue shows the band looking like they did in the 90′s. The venue itself is pretty bland and standard for a warehouse. American Idiot, Nimrod, Warning, and Insomniac are all at Milton Keynes. The band looks like they do when you think of them during their American Idiot days. Again this venue is pretty standard. It just just a stage with some band banners and whatnot. Last is the venue where 21st Century Breakdown is played. 21st Century Breakdown is play at The Fox Oakland Theater. The last of the venues surprisingly is more of the same. Overall the venues in Green Day Rock Band can be done better. Compared to the venues in The Beatles Rock Band these are sub-par.
As in The Beatles Rock Band this game has three part harmonies. The rest of the gameplay is more like The Beatles Rock Band then Rock Band 2. Talky phrases do not count for anything in this game just like they did in The Beatles Rock Band. What has changed from The Beatles Rock Band is the way you activate overdrive for drums. Green Day Rock Band goes back to the Rock Band 2 way of doing it.
You either want this game or you do not. If you like Rock Band and Green Day this is a definite buy. If you like one or the other I would still suggest picking this up. If you like neither obviously you will not like this game. This is a decent game that would have been better at a little bit lower price.
