Lego: Rock Band Review
In a year flooded with music titles in general, and band games in particular, Lego: Rock Band sounds like yet another cash-in meant to wring money from an over-extended genre. But The Beatles: Rock Band and Guitar Hero 5 proved that there’re still reasons to pick up these games — like new features and gameplay refinements. Similarly, Lego: Rock Band throws a fresh skin on Rock Band 2 and adds some fun, new story elements, giving you a good reason to pick up your plastic guitar or drums sticks once again.
The Lego brand permeates everything in the game, from the title screen (which looks like RB2’s screen with brighter colors and an adorable Lego tiger) down to the note track (which replaces the standard rectangular bars with small, scrolling Lego pieces). Of course, your characters are also Lego people, though at the game’s onset you’re given a relatively limited number of customization options for your Lego avatar. New items open up after nearly every song, and your score is converted directly into the game’s currency, Studs, so you can quickly and effortlessly accumulate millions of the tiny Lego money in just a few short hours.
