Basically, it lets you mash and strum to the rhythm instead of matching every note for certain sections of songs, and it will sound pretty good. Rock Band 4 lets you perform freestyle solos, replacing the guitar solos in certain songs with shredding that approximately matches what the solos sounded like based on your own button presses. With a band, the lower two-thirds of the screen show guitar, bass, and drums, while the top third shows the vocals. With one player, the active instrument stays in the center of the screen. The band-in-a-box only includes one guitar, so you'll need to buy a second (or use an old one that's compatible) if you want both a guitarist and a bass player. One to four people can play at a time, filling up the guitar, bass, drums, and vocals slots of the band. Vocalists have to sing in key with the song, following the lyrics and matching the tone as shown on a line graph that scrolls horizontally across the screen. Drummers follow four columns of colored gems as they slide down the screen and hit the pads (or stomp the bass drum pedal, if it's an orange line rather than a gem) as they pass a bar on the bottom. Guitar and bass players follow five columns of colored gems as they slide down the screen and have to hit the right colored button and strum as the gems pass a bar on the bottom. Rock Band 4's gameplay and structure are mostly unchanged from previous versions of the game. It's a welcome option that will save you money, if you managed to keep your old plastic instruments in working condition. If you still have your Rock Band instruments from the previous console generation (PlayStation 3 instruments work with the PS4 version of the game, Xbox 360 instruments work with the Xbox One version of the game), you can use them instead of buying new ones, and your experience will remain effectively the same. Then there's the Band-in-a-Box package, which is for $249.99 on either system I tested it for the PlayStation 4. The game packaged with a wireless guitar is $129.99 for either system. The game on its own retails for $59.99 for the PlayStation 4 and $79.99 for the Xbox One PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 guitars connect to the console via Bluetooth, but the Xbox One lacks Bluetooth and requires an additional USB wireless adapter, included in the package. Rock Band 4 is available in several versions, thanks to its welcome backward compatibility with older Rock Band instruments. It isn't ambitious, but it's a reminder of just how fun playing with plastic instruments can be, now available on the current generation of game systems. This Playstation 4 ($799.95 at Amazon) (Opens in a new window) and Xbox One ($200.00 at eBay) (Opens in a new window) game looks and feels nearly identical to the Rock Band games we played last decade, and ultimately that's why it works. Activision tries some new things with Guitar Hero Live, but Harmonix stays slavishly close to the original formula with Rock Band 4. Rock Band and Guitar Hero are back, after years of lying dormant and the very game genre of plinking away at plastic instruments in time with the music seeming obsolete. Doesn't introduce anything new to the series.How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages.
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