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blog post: Rock Band 2 Announced

posted on July 02, 2008 @ 09:10 am

Rock Band 2 is a forthcoming music video game being developed by Harmonix Music Systems and is the sequel to Rock Band. The game will be released in North America on Xbox 360 in September 2008, with PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and Wii versions released later in the year.

Teasdale suggests that between existing dowloadable content and on-disk songs, there will be over 200 songs available for Rock Band 2, including more than 80 songs (all of which are master recordings) available on the game disc.[4][5] Existing and future downloadable content will be entirely compatible with both Rock Band titles.[4] While Teasdale has made reference to custom song creation, as will be available in Guitar Hero World Tour, Alex Rigopulos has confirmed that there will not be a similar mode, saying that they really hadn't focused on that aspect for Rock Band 2 and that they would like to do it differently.[4]

Game developer Funcom announced in a press release for the soundtrack for the Age of Conan that the band Turbonegro would be featured in Rock Band 2.[6][7] It is also reported that Bad Religion is working on a song for the game,[6] and content from AC/DC is also rumored to be included.[8]

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