Rock Band 4 (Game)

Rock Band 4

GAME » on October 6, 2015

PlayStation 4 (Platform)Xbox One (Platform)

An installment of the band-focused rhythm game for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Focusing on the core vocals, drums, guitar, and bass instruments, Rock Band 4 offers a new set of on-disc songs while supporting players' existing DLC libraries.

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Overview

Promotional art for Rock Band 4.

Five years after Rock Band 3 (Game), and three years since the release of Rock Band Blitz (Game), Rock Band 4 brings the Rock Band franchise back to consoles. This is the first entry to appear on the Xbox One (Platform) and Playstation 4. Rock Band 4 removes the pro guitar and keyboard features introduced in Rock Band 3, with Harmonix stating that they want to focus on the core vocal, guitar, bass, and drum features. However, pro drums and vocal harmonies are supported.

The game makes changes to the previous Rock Band formula by allowing for "freestyle" vocals, which give players score for skilful improvisation on vocals. Songs can be strung together into "shows," where crowds may ask for encores and between-song banter lets vocalists earn some extra points for working the audience. Drum fills have a new dynamic option that feeds drummers new drum fills to activate overdrive. This can be toggled to "static," which feeds drummers the existing drum fills.

Mad Catz (Company) have produced a new set of instruments that come bundled with the game, promising better build quality for more precise control. Mad Catz have also released a "band in a box" bundle that includes the game, a microphone, a wireless drum kit, and a guitar. They have also released a guitar bundle that includes the Stratocaster controller and a copy of the game. Those who attended PAX East 2015 (Concept) were able to pre-order a special Penny Arcade (Franchise)-branded guitar. Some legacy instruments are also supported, although a special adapter was produced to allow wireless Xbox 360 (Platform) instruments to connect to the Xbox One.

On the 1st of March, 2016 Harmonix announced a crowd funding campaign on Fig (Company) to raise $1.5M in order to port Rock Band 4 to PC (Platform). However the campaign failed to reach its funding goal, ending up with a total of $792,817 from some 1,674 backers.

On the 7th of March, 2016 Harmonix announced a new co-publishing deal with Performance Designed Products (PDP) after ending the previous co-publishing deal with Mad Catz following financial difficulties. PDP will take over manufacturing the instruments and original Mad Catz instruments will remain compatible.

Setlist

Previously purchased downloadable content for Rock Band games (which includes songs exported from other Rock Band games) is supported at no additional cost as these songs become available on the new platforms. However, this only applies to versions of the game in the same console family, i.e. songs purchased on Xbox 360 are be playable on Xbox One and songs purchased on Playstation 3 are only playable on Playstation 4. Rock Band 4 also features a new set of 60 on-disc songs.

Artist	Song Title
.38 Special	Caught Up in You
4 Non Blondes	What's Up
Aerosmith	Toys in the Attic
Arctic Monkeys	Arabella
Avenged Sevenfold	Hail to the King
Benjamin Booker	Violent Shiver
The Black Keys	Fever
The Both	Milwaukee
Brad Paisley feat. Keith Urban	Start a Band
Brandi Carlile	Mainstream Kid
Cake	Short Skirt/Long Jacket
The Cure	Friday I'm in Love
Dark Wheels	V-Bomb
Disturbed	Prayer
Dream Theater	Metropolis - Part I "The Miracle and the Sleeper"
Duck & Cover	Knock 'Em Down
Eddie Japan	Albert
Elvis Presley	Suspicious Minds
Fall Out Boy	Centuries
Fleetwood Mac	You Make Loving Fun
Foo Fighters	The Feast and the Famine
Gary Clark Jr.	Ain't Messin 'Round
Gin Blossoms	Follow You Down
Grouplove	Tongue Tied
Halestorm	I Miss the Misery
Heart	Kick It Out
Heaven's Basement	I Am Misery
Imagine Dragons	I Bet My Life
Jack White	Lazaretto
Jeff Allen	Recession
Johnny Blazes and the Pretty Boys	Cold Clear Light
Judas Priest	Hall of Valhalla
The Killers	Somebody Told Me
Lightning Bolt	Dream Genie
Little Big Town	Little White Church
Live	All Over You
Lucius	Turn It Around
Lynyrd Skynyrd	That Smell
Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars	Uptown Funk
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones	Impression That I Get
Mumford & Sons	The Wolf
The Outfield	Your Love
Ozzy Osbourne	Miracle Man
Paramore	I'm Into You
The Protomen	Light Up the Night
Queens of the Stone Age	My God Is The Sun
R.E.M.	The One I Love
Rick Derringer	Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo
Rush	A Passage To Bangkok
Scandal	The Warrior
Scorpions	No One Like You
Slydigs	Light The Fuse
Soul Remnants	Dead Black (Heart of Ice)
Soundgarden	Superunknown
Spin Doctors	Little Miss Can't Be Wrong
St. Vincent	Birth in Reverse
System of a Down	Spiders
Tijuana Sweetheart	Pistol Whipped
U2	Cedarwood Road
U2	I Will Follow
Van Halen	Panama
Van Morrison	Brown Eyed Girl
The Warning	Free Falling
White Denim	At Night in Dreams
The Who	The Seeker

Pre-Order Bonuses

A Pre-Order of Rock Band 4 comes with a 30 DLC song-pack featuring selection of songs by Harmonix bands. Most of the songs have appeared previously in Rock Band.

Artist	Song Title
The Acro-Brats	Day Late Dollar Short
Anarchy Club	Blood Doll
Anarchy Club	Get Clean
Bang Camaro	Pleasure (Pleasure)
Bang Camaro	Push Push (Lady Lightning)
Bang Camaro II	Night Lies
Blanks.	Lodger
Breaking Wheel	Shoulder to the Plow
Count Zero	Shake
Death of the Cool	Can't Let Go
DnA's Evolution	The Heist
Father Octopus	Blink
Freezepop	Brainpower
Freezepop	Get Ready 2 Rokk
Freezepop	Less Talk More Rokk
Freezepop	Super-Sprøde
Giant Target	Signs
Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives	Entangled
Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives	I Get By
The Main Drag	A Jagged Gorgeous Winter
The Main Drag	Don't Let Me Down (Slowly)
The Main Drag	What's Your Favorite Dinosaur?
Megasus	Megasus
Speck	Conventional Lover
Symbion Project	Sythesized (Inside Your Mind Mix)
That Handsome Devil	Rob the Prez-O-Dent
Tijuana Sweetheart	No Mercy
Tijuana Sweetheart	Seven
Tijuana Sweetheart	Trash Candy
Tribe	Outside

A pre-order from Amazon.com comes with 4 additional songs:

Artist	Song Title
Alabama Shakes	Don't Wanna Fight
Breaking Benjamin	Failure
Death from Above 1979	Trainwreck 1979
The Pretty Reckless	Follow Me Down

Playstation Plus members who pre-order the digital version on Playstation 4 will receive 10 different songs:

Artist	Song Title
All That Remains	Divide
Blitz Kids	Run For Cover
Bring Me The Horizon	Throne
Dead Sara	Mona Lisa
Duran Duran	The Reflex
Janis Joplin	Move Over
Of Mice & Men	Would You Still Be There
Oh Honey	Sugar You
Pantera	Cowboys From Hell (Live from Monsters in Moscow Festival)
Seastick Steve	Summertime Boy

Xbox Live members who pre-order the digital version on Xbox One with receive 12 different songs:

Artist	Song Title
All That Remains	What If I Was Nothing
BABYMETAL	Gimme Chocolate!!
Earth, Wind & Fire	September
Interpol	All the Rage Back Home
Jefferson Starship	Jane
Linkin Park ft. Daron Malakian	Rebellion
Marilyn Manson	The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles
Mastodon	High Road
My Morning Jacket	One Big Holiday
Pierce the Veil ft. Kellin Quinn	King for a Day
"Weird Al" Yankovic	My Own Eyes
The Wild Feathers	Backwoods Company

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