Rock Revolution moshes to March

By Robert Purchese Published 13 January, 2009

Lost in Blue Wii, Bomberman 2 slip.

Konami has told Eurogamer that music game Rock Revolution will be released sometime during March.

That's the same month Wii survival adventure Lost in Blue: Shipwrecked! will be out, according to the publisher, having been pushed back from a 6th February slot.

Those after their Ray Mears thrills can pick up DS offering Lost in Blue 3 on 6th February to pass the time, though, or nab Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia for the handheld on the same day.

Bomberman 2 for DS has also had a slight hold-up, and will now be out a week later than expected on 13th February.

Rock Revolution, Konami's answer to Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band, comes complete with drum and guitar peripherals. The game builds on the publisher's past with past rhythm-action pioneers GuitarFreaks and DrumMania, and clearly sees no need to cram the karaoke part in. We won't mention the US reviews.

Rock Revolution's been in development for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and DS. The instruments, incidentally, should be compatible with both GHWT and Rock Band 2.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (9) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Toothball #1 3 years ago

    Oh yeah, Rock Revolution. I had nearly forgotten about that one. Wonder how it deals with Ion drum kits.

  • Eraysor #2 3 years ago

    Rock Revolution was doomed before it even existed.

  • RobotRocker #3 3 years ago

    So doomed before Guitar Freaks and Drum Mania right?

    (At the risk of igniting the hardcore Bemani fans. Im probably right. Even before Guitar Hero. Guitar Freaks was a terrible, terrible game)

  • daz_john_smith #4 3 years ago

    Unfortunately Rock Revolution wasn't developed by the folks from Beman;i instead Konami decided to get "the world’s leading independent developer of music, party and social games." (quoted from Zoe Mode's website). It's hard to argue with a quote like that when they've developed epic's like Dancing With The Stars and You're In The Movies.

  • Kyle #5 3 years ago

    Rock Revolution will fail soooooo hard, it's gonna be painful to watch.

  • JonFE #6 3 years ago

    "We won't mention the US reviews."

    Well, you got me curious right there so I found IGN's review. Ouch.

  • Toothball #7 3 years ago

    Oh yeah, that's why I'd nearly forgotten about it.

  • Notez #8 3 years ago

    Ouch indeed about the IGN review. There's one thing about it though - it seemed like the reviewer was pretty clueless about these games. I mean "most tracks are covers" - who the f* cares. GH2 is the most fun (tied with RB2 maybe) of these games and most of its tracks are covers. No vocals? Seriously...

    So Eurogamer, PLEASE get someone halfway decent at expert (GH / RB -wise) to review this - chances are this is a skill game and it actually is fun at top difficulties. Then again, it could be pretty horrible in any case.
    Edited by 1 at 14/01/09 @ 09:47

  • madgerald Verified Studio Head of PR & Marketing, Colossal Games LTD #9 3 years ago

    Saw Rock Revolution on sale in Gamestop while I was on my holiday last week (yes, I went to New York and visited game stores). 2nd hand PS3 copy was $19.99 new was $29.99. Nearly made the purchase - but I don't have any PS3 peripherals. Virgin Megastore in Times Square had GH Aerosmith with guitar on all platforms for $39.99
    Edited by 1 at 14/01/09 @ 11:14