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  • MrKLM
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    • Apr 2006
    • 3146

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    Rock Your Block Off - LEGO Rock Band Announced

    Warner Bros and TT Games today has made it official, soon you can Rock your block off with LEGO Rock Band. Check it out:
    The unique family-friendly music experience is currently in development by TT Games in partnership with Harmonix, and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game, which will allow families, tweens and teens to experience a wild journey to rock stardom where they can “Build a Band and Rock the Universe,” will be available for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and Wii™ home videogame console. LEGO Rock Band for Nintendo DS™ will be co-developed by TT Games and Harmonix in partnership with Backbone Entertainment, a Foundation 9 Entertainment studio. All versions are scheduled for release holiday 2009.



    LEGO Rock Band combines the multiplayer music experience of Rock Band® with the fun, customization and humor of the LEGO videogame franchise packed with brilliant chart-topping songs and classic favorites suitable for younger audiences, including:

    Blur: “Song 2”
    Carl Douglas: “Kung Fu Fighting”
    Europe: “The Final Countdown”
    Good Charlotte: “Boys and Girls”
    Pink: “So What”

    Players will become rockers as they embark on a journey to stardom that the whole family can enjoy as they work their way through local venues, stadiums and fantasy locations on Earth and beyond that mimic the imaginative settings that the LEGO world offers. Also continuing the LEGO “build-and-play” gaming experience, players will be able to create their own LEGO Rock Band style as they customize their minifigure avatars, band and entourage, including roadies, managers and crew. LEGO Rock Band supports Rock Band instruments, as well as other music game controllers.

    “LEGO Rock Band combines two compelling properties and creates an experience that family members of all ages will enjoy playing together as a group,” said Tom Stone, Managing Director, TT Games. “Harmonix and MTV Games are the world experts in music gameplay, and we’re genuinely thrilled to bring the unique and humor-filled LEGO experience to their Rock Band universe.”

    “We’re thrilled to offer another LEGO branded gaming experience that will deliver humorous and social play for families and friends,” said Henrik Taudorf Lorensen, Vice President, the LEGO Group. “LEGO Rock Band is built around the same values of imagination and family-friendly creative role play that is present in other LEGO videogames. It will deliver innovative new elements of game play that complement the fun of the Rock Band experience.”

    “Rock Band is a social game experience that crosses every generation and every genre of rock,” said Bob Picunko, Senior Vice President of Electronic Games for MTV Games. “Harmonix and MTV Games are big fans of the LEGO game franchise and excited to work with TT Games to develop a new take on Rock Band that focuses on great music and LEGO humor that’s fun for the whole family.”

    Check back for more news on this new game.
  • Hawkers
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    • May 2007
    • 7131

    #2
    Re: Rock Your Block Off - LEGO Rock Band Announced

    *cringe*

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    • =d][b=Ausden
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      • Jul 2006
      • 229

      #3
      Re: Rock Your Block Off - LEGO Rock Band Announced

      This will be as epic as the Ghost Busters game:shakehead:

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      • MrKLM
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        • Apr 2006
        • 3146

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        Re: Rock Your Block Off - LEGO Rock Band Announced

        Originally posted by =d][b=Ausden
        This will be as epic as the Ghost Busters game:shakehead:
        are you suggesting that the Ghostbusters game is going to be bad?

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        • Obsidian Spire
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          • Oct 2008
          • 705

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          Re: Rock Your Block Off - LEGO Rock Band Announced

          I saw the Lego Rock Band article on Kotaku. It almost made me break my screen in half. There's no point to parodying a music/rhythm game. The only thing this could possibly add is more annoying kids, puerile humor, legoized graphics and the exact same interface just with lego bricks falling down instead of normal blocks.

          Damn, Harmonix is really milking this teat for all it's worth. It's a shame really, I used to like them. Same with Traveller's Tales. Their first games were okay, but now it's just sad.

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          • =d][b=Ausden
            Member
            • Jul 2006
            • 229

            #6
            Re: Rock Your Block Off - LEGO Rock Band Announced

            Actually I am suggesting it will be bad. Have you seen the screen shots? They ghost busters look silly.

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            • MrKLM
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              • Apr 2006
              • 3146

              #7
              Re: Rock Your Block Off - LEGO Rock Band Announced

              Originally posted by =d][b=Ausden
              Actually I am suggesting it will be bad. Have you seen the screen shots? They ghost busters look silly.
              The Wii and PS2 versions look cartoony for a reason.

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              • TGL|FalseLion
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                • Dec 2009
                • 184

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                Re: Rock Your Block Off - LEGO Rock Band Announced

                Glad to see that LEGO is slowly but surely whoring out.....

                I understood LEGO Star Wars, and Indiana Jones made a bit of sense even though they made an Indiana Jones game for the SNES I believe.....LEGO Batman kinda threw me though because there had been other Batman games, and a few of them weren't that bad if I recall....but Rock Band...what's next LEGO World of Warcraft....actually now that i think about it they should make a LEGO MMORPG......

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                • MrKLM
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                  • Apr 2006
                  • 3146

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                  Re: Rock Your Block Off - LEGO Rock Band Announced

                  LEGO is making an MMO and a LEGO Battles game for the DS.

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                  • TGL|FalseLion
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                    • Dec 2009
                    • 184

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                    Re: Rock Your Block Off - LEGO Rock Band Announced

                    Originally posted by Manzi
                    LEGO is making an MMO and a LEGO Battles game for the DS.
                    yeah but the only info i can find on the LEGO MMO states it was suppose to be released at the end of 08....so perhaps it has died in production.

                    I'm sure that it's probably not technologically possible yet, but well LEGO could create the first fully non-linear MMO. I still refuse to pay a subscription fee for games....but if a game allowed me to do entirely what I want in a game, not to mention entirely what I want with LEGOs....you can go ahead and sign me up for that.

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                    • MrKLM
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                      • Apr 2006
                      • 3146

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                      Re: Rock Your Block Off - LEGO Rock Band Announced

                      Originally posted by TGL|FalseLion
                      yeah but the only info i can find on the LEGO MMO states it was suppose to be released at the end of 08....so perhaps it has died in production.

                      I'm sure that it's probably not technologically possible yet, but well LEGO could create the first fully non-linear MMO. I still refuse to pay a subscription fee for games....but if a game allowed me to do entirely what I want in a game, not to mention entirely what I want with LEGOs....you can go ahead and sign me up for that.
                      It's still in production by NetDevil I just got the newsletter update yesterday.

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                      • TGL|FalseLion
                        Member
                        • Dec 2009
                        • 184

                        #12
                        Re: Rock Your Block Off - LEGO Rock Band Announced

                        Originally posted by Manzi
                        It's still in production by NetDevil I just got the newsletter update yesterday.
                        http://www.netdevil.com/games/lego.php
                        hadn't heard of the dev before, but looks like LEGO made a pretty good choice.

                        previous titles-
                        Auto-Assault (a twisted metal mmo)
                        Jumpgate (a wing commander-esque mmo?)

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