First LEGO Rock Band Gameplay Footage

believe it or not kids love rockband. A friend brought his kids over and they freaked out they were so excited to play the game. Of course most of the songs were too mature for them so they played 'eye of the tiger' over and over again. They would love this game. Hell I'll probably pick it up when its $10 in the bargain bin.

Can't believe how butthurt you guys are over this. The Lego Star Wars games are absolutely awesome. Fun gameplay, neat stylized look and selling millions of units. Ultra quality games. I see no reason not to do Lego Guitar Hero. Like it's going to be less cool to play this one, vs the overly cartoony/stylized characters in the original game?

It is milking the franchise, but it's been milked to death as it is, anyway.

2 Franchises that are over done.

I wish people would stop buying these games...

Lots of hate in here. Those of you who don't understand this and are wondering who they're trying to sell this to: obviously not you. This game's targeting kids who are not yet familiar with, or not been able to convince their parents to buy, Rock Band. At the same time it targets parents who are casual gamers and weren't comfortable playing Iron Maiden songs with their kids, but want to play something with their kids. (Personally I think that's being a little too overprotective/uptight, but there's plenty of parents like that, and that's their business).

Wow. One can only hope this tanks and tanks hard.

Who are they expecting to buy this game?

Did anybody in the history of LEGO ever pretend their guy was a rock star? Nobody made a spaceship and flew that little yellow man through an imaginary asteroid field to land on their bed and put on a hell of a concert. Ok I'm lying, somebody did do that once, but it was a girl, then she said "Fuck This" and went and played with her Jem dolls. Truly truly outrageous.

I don't get the complaints either.

I think a lot of people on here don't get just how popular the Lego games are with kids. And I'm not talking "oh buy little Billy whatever keeps him happy" people who don't understand what these things are, I'm talking people in their late 30's and early 40's who are gamers and techies and want to play something with their kids.

A guy I know at work who is literally the smartest programmer I know (since I don't know Carmack personally) plays every Lego game to death with his kids. The only thing he wants is more of them. And he already has Rock Band. This game is perfect for him.

Harmonix will probably make the songs importable for you 360/PS3 peeps. Activision is right - when you want to do more than just the song, then DLC doesn't work as an idea. Yes, everyone on this board has a large hard drive in their consoles and broadband. But a lot of people don't, and so they need this in disc form. Especially the kinds of people that buy Lego games (and SIMS expansion packs)

And Penny Arcade made an excellent point a while back - your kid wants to play Rock Band and you let them - but when The Donnas' "Take It Off" comes on you wonder if it was such a good idea. This game looks to be the equivalent of Alvin and the Chipmunks - songs which aren't written just for kids but are also harmless for them to listen to.

It just kills me - AC/DC and The Beatles insist on their own separate games and everyone defends and worships them for it. But a Lego game comes up and people get up in arms about it.

Why? There are too many of these rhythm games as it is...

Fuck yeah... Sex, drugs and LEGO bricks, here I come!

As an HMX fanboy, I've usually been pretty optimistic about their releases.

But this game...it...it's totally bizarro-world.

Haha. What.

I guess as long as people still scoop this stuff up, there is still a reason to hammer it out. I personally think it's fucking ridiculous, but I'm not developer or publisher with money hats either.

i facepalm each time i see the name of this games' title

Lego anything /sounds/ good, but I just don't get who this will appeal to, other than people who don't know what else to buy but love Lego and still haven't got enough of rhythm/music gaming.

Or perhaps I've answered my own question, and Harmonix are banking on the theory.

Un-fucking-real. This is a new low for sure. People like this should just go draw up some poorly spelled beggar signs and go stand with the fucking hobos already.

As far as I am concerned, I am buying one music game the rest of this year. That will be The Beatles: Rock Band.

This should be DLC, amirite?

Boycott!

Yawn...

I can't believe it's actually going to happen.

fail