What do you think of the Beatles Deal?
Question by tacos91life: What do you think of the Beatles Deal?
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/30/rock-band-the-beatles-now-official/
ot that it’s much of a surprise anymore, but Apple Corps (not this one) and MTV have announced Rock Band: The Beatles an untitled Beatles music project, to be developed by Harmonix. While not a Rock Band expansion, this is a pretty major coup over Activision, owners of the Guitar Hero franchise. We’re in the conference call now. More details to follow.
Notes from the conference call:
* “This will not be a Rock Band title, this will be a custom title”
* Journey through The Beatles first album through their last — “samples” from their whole catalog
* “A number of new dimensions” that you haven’t seen from Harmonix before
* Just in time for the holidays … in 2009
* Tracks are based on UK releases — the idea is to play the songs through The Beatles career (not remixed or remastered tracks, we think)
* Is the imagery tied to the existing art from the songs and albums? The developers aren’t prepared to talk about specifics, but “visual imagery” is a big part of the project
* Interoperability is not something that’s being talked about yet
* “Very little” can be said about the game itself today. “MTV and Harmonix was clearly the innovator in this category of games” — Apple Corps was really impressed with Harmonix’s creative and musical approach
* “It’s not a Rock Band game, it’s a Beatles game. They deserve a fully dedicated title. [The game] takes advantage of the Rock Band platform in many ways … [and it’s] going to be compatible with existing Rock Band peripherals” — we can assume that instruments from other music games (e.g., Guitar Hero) will also be supported
* No hardware platforms announced
* No comment on licensing Beatles tunes for other games — this is an exclusive arrangement for Beatles music in video games (as for digital distribution of The Beatles catalog on music services (e.g., iTunes): Apple Corps is still working out details; no announcement to make nor date nor anything else!)
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Answer by Cannot The Kingdom Of Salvation
well thats gonna suck it will be the easiest guitar hero/rockband game made wtf the beatles are not a skilled band a good band maybe but skilled i think not.
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