LEGO Rock Band: Why???
I admit that the allure of using a controller to interact with animated action on a screen holds limited appeal for me. Perhaps its my age or the fact that a potato rolling down a hill has better hand-eye coordination than I do. But the latest incarnation of Rock Band which brickifies rock stars into claw handed stumps just mystifies me. Nevertheless LEGO Rock Band has attracted David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Queen. (Full track list after the jump.)
Here’s video of Blur (or as Joystiq so abtly put it, the band best known for that one song with all the “Woo-hoos” in it”) in LEGO Rock Band:
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The standard versions of Rock Band and Guitar Hero already use celebrity likenesses that are cartoonish and bizarre looking as it is. Add to this the whole notion of celebrity and rock persona as consciously constructed and somewhat false. In that light, the Lego versions of a punk icon like Iggy or an image chameleon like Bowie seem almost like a grand postmodern joke.
See it’s reviews like this, that put a bad light on good games. This game, while being silly, is made for families and friends to enjoy good music, while playing a fun game. That is the point, and it pulls it off nicely. The fact that rockers have been rendered as Lego characters, is irrelevant to the positive experience you can have while playing this game, as well as it’s predecessors. Why not focus on the fact that the game can positively affect a family instead of finding one thing about it that you don’t like?