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'Rock Band' Coming to iPhone and iPod Touch

Friday October 9, 2009 9:04 am PDT by Arnold Kim

TouchArcade previewed an upcoming release of Rock Band for the iPhone and iPod touch. Rock Band is, of course, an incredibly popular rhythm game franchise which allows up to four people play instruments in time with popular rock songs. The iPhone version offers on-screen tapping in the place for each instrument including vocals.

Each song can be played in four distinctly different ways Guitar, bass, drums, and vocals. Every instrument has its own track that you tap along with, and they all match up with the music just as well as the other versions of the game. Each mode is also playable in three difficulty levels. Easy should be easy enough for anyone to jump in to, and hard seems fairly challenging.


The iPhone version of the game is expected to be released as early as next week.

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jessica.
Posted: 34 months ago
If it looks like what they showed on the android (or whatever the phone is on the verizon "there's a map for that" commercial) then it should be pretty awesome.
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MadGoat
Posted: 34 months ago
This is something I'm prepared to open my wallet for.
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jessica.
Posted: 34 months ago
They're going to have to step it up quite a bit to compete with the PSP Go or whatever that device is called.
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Dainin
Posted: 34 months ago
Why didn't they use the built in microphone for the singing? It looked like you just needed to touch the correct row?
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kevindotcom
Posted: 34 months ago
I can't believe what they did to the singing. EA... this is a phone, which means it had a mic. WTH?
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caligurl
Posted: 34 months ago
WOO HOO! depending on the price..... i'll be buying this lil app!
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Drumjim85
Posted: 34 months ago

Why didn't they use the built in microphone for the singing? It looked like you just needed to touch the correct row?


I can't believe what they did to the singing. EA... this is a phone, which means it had a mic. WTH?


ya! this is lame. they should take a lesson from "i am t-pain" which shows that pitch tracking is possible on the phone.
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MrENGLISH
Posted: 34 months ago

I can't believe what they did to the singing. EA... this is a phone, which means it had a mic. WTH?


why do people so easily forget about the iPod touch?... not everyone uses the iPhone for App Store Apps.

I do feel like they dropped the ball for those interested in singing though. Esp since you can use the mic built into the apple headphones on the iPod touch. Maybe they can add this feature later...

of course, being designed to be played on a portable device does mean that you may not be in a place where you can sing without disturbing those around you.
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nickXedge
Posted: 34 months ago
This looks pretty amazing! And I agree they dropped the ball with the way it handles vocals. They could just as easily have put a little "Vocals on iPod Touch requires external microphone" disclaimer as other apps have with similar input. Other than that, it looks great and I look forward to seeing the price, and if not too high, I will definitely buy it. I think it could be like $9.99 because they might only give you a few songs and have in-app purchases of other songs probably. I could be wrong, but it makes sense. Get people on-board with a relatively low introductory price for a great game ported to these devices, and then make more money on $.99 songs for purchase.
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kevindotcom
Posted: 34 months ago

why do people so easily forget about the iPod touch?... not everyone uses the iPhone for App Store Apps.

I do feel like they dropped the ball for those interested in singing though. Esp since you can use the mic built into the apple headphones on the iPod touch. Maybe they can add this feature later...

of course, being designed to be played on a portable device does mean that you may not be in a place where you can sing without disturbing those around you.


I am sorry I didn't mention the iPod Touch. However, the iPod Touch can take advantage of the mic found in apples latest ear buds. I use it all the time for skype on my wife's iPod (2nd Gen).

UPDATE: Oops, did not notice that you mentioned the ear buds yourself. Cheers!
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