The winning triumvirate of inspired music game designers at Harmonix, the showbiz industry moguls at MTV, and the gaming industry behemoth that is Electronic Arts bring us the ultimate music creation/rock god-aping title: the simply and ingeniously entitled Rock Band. Not just a guitar or a microphone, but a whole band, see?

Rock Band is a game in which up to four players - be they in the same room or online together in cyberspace - can jam on drums, lead guitar, bass guitar and vocals. I ... more >>

The winning triumvirate of inspired music game designers at Harmonix, the showbiz industry moguls at MTV, and the gaming industry behemoth that is Electronic Arts bring us the ultimate music creation/rock god-aping title: the simply and ingeniously entitled Rock Band. Not just a guitar or a microphone, but a whole band, see?

Rock Band is a game in which up to four players - be they in the same room or online together in cyberspace - can jam on drums, lead guitar, bass guitar and vocals. In short, it's the full band experience* (* that's as in rock band, not some harpsichord or viola-powered recital).

The game comes with a whopping great song list, predominantly made up of original master recordings, and doesn't stop there. There's also a constantly evolving library of songs available to download for the PS3 version.

The Rock Band setlist for PlayStation 3 features:

• Rolling Stones 'Gimme Shelter'


• Aerosmith 'Train Kept a Rollin''


• The Who 'Won't Get Fooled Again'


• Boston 'Foreplay/Long Time'


• Mountain 'Mississippi Queen'


• The Police 'Next to You'


• David Bowie 'Suffragette City
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• Black Sabbath 'Paranoid'


• Blue Oyster Cult 'Don't Fear the Reaper'


• The Ramones 'Blitzkrieg Bop'


• Deep Purple 'Highway Star'


• KISS 'Detroit Rock City'


• Molly Hatchet 'Flirtin' With Disaster'


• The Outlaws 'Green Grass & High Tides'


• Sweet 'Ballroom Blitz'


• Rush 'Tom Sawyer'


• Bon Jovi 'Wanted Dead or Alive'


• The Clash 'Should I Stay or Should I Go'


• Faith No More 'Epic'


• R.E.M. 'Orange Crush'


• Iron Maiden 'Run to the Hills'


• Foo Fighters 'Learn to Fly'


• Metallica 'Enter Sandman'


• Nirvana 'In Bloom'


• Stone Temple Pilots 'Vasoline'


• Weezer 'Say It Ain't So'


• Smashing Pumpkins 'Cherub Rock'


• Radiohead 'Creep'


• Beastie Boys 'Sabotage'


• Hole 'Celebrity Skin'


• Garbage 'I Think I'm Paranoid'


• Soundgarden 'Black Hole Sun'


• The Hives 'Main Offender'


• Queens of the Stone Age 'Go With the Flow'


• The Strokes 'Reptilia'


• Jet 'Are You Gonna Be My Girl'


• OK Go 'Here It Goes Again'


• Nine Inch Nails 'The Hand That Feeds'


• Pixies 'Wave of Mutilation'


• Yeah Yeah Yeahs 'Maps'


• Red Hot Chili Peppers 'Dani California'


• Coheed & Cambria 'Welcome Home'


• Fallout Boy 'Dead on Arrival'


• The Killers 'When You Were Young'


• New Pornographers 'Electric Version'

There's also a selection of unlockable songs available from names you'll know (E.G. Oasis, Blur, Muse) and names you may not know (Freezepop, Anarchy Club, Flyleaf and many more). Oh, and Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld! Yeah! << less