{"id":924,"date":"2010-08-28T18:45:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T01:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/?p=924"},"modified":"2011-01-12T21:38:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T04:38:43","slug":"green-day-rock-band-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/green-day-rock-band-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Day: Rock Band Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5125\/5351250930_bc0471c300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-925\" title=\"Green Dya ROck Band logo\" src=\"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/100310_bwstackedlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a die hard Green Day fan, but I like their songs for the most part and I like Rock Band. So, I decided to check out the game.\u00a0 It is what you expect with over 40 Green Day songs to play Rock Band style.\u00a0 About half way through the songs I realized a couple things. First, Green Day songs all have a similar feel that made things a bit easier once I got it down. Second, I know more Green Day songs than I thought I did. None of their songs are especially hard, at least on Expert Bass, and I was able to play through them all without failing.\u00a0 Harmonix has done a good job making the game overall. There are a lot of  Green Day clips to unlock for fans of the band and an export option to play the songs in Rock Band 2, or Rock Band 3 when it releases, once you&#8217;ve finished the campaign. Personally, I&#8217;ve enjoyed it and I&#8217;m looking forward to playing more Rock Band when RB3 releases in October.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ve been enjoying Green Day: Rock Band for the most part but I am a little frustrated by some of the achievements. They have a lot of them tied to singing vocals and playing with a fulll band which is just not going to happen for me.\u00a0 They also include some that require playing a song on every instrument.\u00a0 Also not going to happen.\u00a0 I get that they want to encourage people to play as a band but I tried playing on Xbox Live a couple times and never found more than 1 other person to form a band with. So, this is going to be a game where I don&#8217;t get the majority of the achievements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a die hard Green Day fan, but I like their songs for the most part and I like Rock Band. So, I decided to check out the game.\u00a0 It is what you expect with over 40 Green Day songs to play Rock Band style.\u00a0 About half way through the songs I realized a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[162,7,81,5],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","tag-green-day-rock-band","tag-review","tag-rock-band","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}