Rock Band: Special Edition

drums

Reviewed by junky12345 on August 01, 2008  |  report this review

The drums are a different story all together. Honestly, if you have any rhythm at all, the easy setting on the drums will frustrate you more than the hard setting. Feeling the vibes of the music on the easy setting will cause you to fail repeatedly. Maybe it is the pacing of the board or the fewer notes that you are required to hit, but whatever it is, you will find yourself struggling to find the rhythm and will want to quickly switch the difficulty level. In fact, if you are the rhythm king amongst your friends, they might be dependent on you to save them if they fall off the stage.

This is one of the great features about the multiplayer mode. Instead of you failing and bringing your whole band down with you, if you trip up and trash a song, then it will be just you sitting on the sidelines. At least until your band mates use the overdrive (Star power) and they revive you for one more shot, or rather two more since you have the 'three strikes you're out' system working for you. This is probably my favorite part of the game. Instead of one dynamo shining above all, Rock Band focuses on the band working together, and yes, there will even be times that the band will fight amongst one another. However, this is the truest representation of how a band might work together in order to make it through a grueling concert or just a casual gig at your local dive. This is even more apparent in the Band World Tour Mode.

Easier Drums

When you're playing the drums on more moderate difficulties you will notice that a succession of rapid fire notes will occur, if you can use both hands to do these notes. It takes practice and time but it will help later if you can develop good cordination and such later during the Expert levels of play.