If this game came out first guitar hero would never exist. Just hope your instuments don't break
User Rating: 7.5 | Rock Band X360
If you think about it. Why play a game where you only have a guitar and a bass guitar when you can spend a little bit more and have a drum set, a guitar, a microphone, and a bass guitar. If rock band came out first and there was already a rock band 1, 2,3 and then guitar hero 1 comes out it would never sell. So i give rock band credit just for staying in the competition. The only way i see GH 3 selling more is the music selection but if you don't care too much about the music and just care about playing different instruments then rock band is a better game. When first playing rock band the music that they gave i liked. I started the single player and unlocked bonus songs. Well when i went to play the bonus songs on mulitplayer quick play some of them weren't there. It didn't make sense. the songs that you unlocked in GH you could play in mulitplayer. GH was very simple and easy to understand. You play the songs and you have on list of songs you play them and unlock more and you work your way down. Rock band is a little bit different. You have the same 5 songs and then bonus songs track. But when you play multiplayer and go on the road with a band it gets confusing on what you have to do. You have different places to play and you end up play the same songs over and over again. So in a sense it cool cause thats how a real band kinda works playing the same songs just in different places but the fact that its a game and you get tired of playing the same songs over and over again i just wish there was an easier way to make sure that you effort is to unlocking all the songs. In GH all i wanted to do was to unlock all of the songs because that way when you have friends over you have more of a selection. I've had Rock Band for a week and it seems like i have the same songs to choose from and the list doesn't get any longer. i don't know if i'm in the right game mode. If you have to play a game where you have to read the instrustions then the game isn't as user friendly as it should be. I have read a game instruction book in years. Also ive been player the game for less then a week and my guitar already broke. It wont strum and the d pad wont even work. also on my drums you can't hit the red really fast anymore it wont register. So i have to send both of them back. The only good thing is it is easy to apply to get new insturments. it took me 5 mins to apply to get my old one send out and my new one sent in. in about 2 days i should get it. well see.
Bottom line
Pros
Rock Band is a new game to compete with GH. its great to play with your friends and feels like your playing a in a real band. The music selection is a mix and some newer songs too. and of course songs that you never heard before
Cons
If your spending 180 you better be getting things that don't break. The fact that they fix it for free how bad can you really hate them. its not as easy as GH. Unlocking new songs is harder because when you play mulitplayer quick play you can't find the songs that you already unlcoked. You can enentually unlock 57 or something like that songs and in GH you get like 80 something. So you would like to have more songs unless you want to cough up the 6 bucks for like 3 songs. 
