Rock Revolution Comments by Ellie Gibson

Still better than Rock Band AC/DC then?

And Darkfall?

How bad does a game need to be to get a 1, or even a 2?

How bad does a game need to be to get a 1, or even a 2?

Read the Darkfall review.

Er, how the hell did this manage a 3?

I've seen Lewisham and Las Vegas, and I know where'd I'd rather live.

ps. It's not the huge plastic shit hole in a desert.

Panda Pops are ace. Especially the radioactive blue ones.

"Theme from CSI: Miami" by The Who.

Heh!

Oh, better than Darkfall then...

I went to Lewisham once and i'm quite happy not to go back. How can any town not have a book shop?

"The bad news is you'd have more fun using your Guitar Hero and Rock Band controllers to batter yourself to death."

"there are an awful lot of tracks that will appeal to teenage Americans who are unnecessarily cross about something, such as "Falling Away From Me" by Korn."

"but the choice basically boils down to Man With Stupid Facial Hair, Woman Wearing Tight Trousers or Woman Wearing Skirt Stolen From Child."

Easily one of the best reviews I've ever read. :)

EDIT: I can't seem to spell "easily." By that I mean the word, not that I have trouble spelling simple words.

I still can't believe this is the only game at the moment to have Megadeth's 'Holy Wars...The Punishment Due' on it. I'm tempted to buy it just for that, but it being a cover and the game being rubbish puts me off.

Indeed. It's rather annoying that the best song Megadeth ever did is on the worst music game ever. Epic song though and needs to be DLC for Rock Band.

Easily on of the best reviews I've ever read. :)

EDIT: I can't seem to spell "easily." By that I mean the word, not that I have trouble spelling simple words.

Evidently you do have trouble with simple words. One has an "E" on the end.

:D

Richard Blackwood is the T S Eliot of our times.

"Easily on of the best reviews I've ever read. :)

EDIT: I can't seem to spell "easily." By that I mean the word, not that I have trouble spelling simple words.

Evidently you do have trouble with simple words. One has an "E" on the end."

FIXED and TOUCHÉ. :D

Ellie, I like you and and your reviews (as I've said in the past!) but . . . . I think I'm getting a bit burnt out on you only reviewing games you don't like.

Clearly, Rock Revolution is a very poor value proposition when compared to its contemporaries, but even so, I can't shake the feeling you're being overly critical just to make jokes and go for comedy value. Although to be fair, the excessive praise in the comments sections kinda amplify that impression . .

For a change, I'd like to read an 'Ellie' review of something she really dug!

"I went to Lewisham once and i'm quite happy not to go back. How can any town not have a book shop?"

When the town is solely inhabited by knuckle-draggers. I surprised the library still exists in Lewisham and hasn't been burnt down for "Being a place of witchcraft and dat, blud".

I'm no copyright lawyer, but don't you have to have an actual product on the market to claim patent infringement?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/konami-sues-harmonix-and-mtv

If so, then that could be the only reason this game was ever made.

DLC Wii only? What? Seriously, what?

symmetry makes a good point, though it's possible the arcade machines would be enough to get them started.

So marginally better than Darkfail then.

Slight problem with the law suite is that this game requires the controllers made by the companies they are suing.

3/10?

the developers will never buy your magazine again!! :D

FRAUD ACTIONS?

Lewisham's great and potatoes are intuitive.

"I think I'm getting a bit burnt out on you only reviewing games you don't like.

Clearly, Rock Revolution is a very poor value proposition when compared to its contemporaries, but even so, I can't shake the feeling you're being overly critical just to make jokes and go for comedy value. Although to be fair, the excessive praise in the comments sections kinda amplify that impression . .

For a change, I'd like to read an 'Ellie' review of something she really dug!"


Amen to that. There is something kind of saddening about witnessing continual and unrelenting cynisism. Its the refuge of an unhappy heart.

Its like the jokes are good, and dry, and cutting etc... but after a while it feels like watching the same TV series episode after episode. Even if you've not seen a particular episode before, it still feels too much like the 6 you have just watched.

There must be some games out there that really genuinely create enthusiasm, generate excitement,and perhaps even move Ellie. Why can't she review those for a change? There has to be some out there, right? A games journalist must like some games, right? Maybe all the modern ones are bobbins, in which case put her on a retrospective article of some sort. And until that time comes, take away her shoelaces and coat hooks.

"For those who don't have enough confidence, talent or vodka for karaoke, this will come as a relief. But why leave out a feature that's been appearing in music games since 2007"

What? Pretty sure singing has been in video games rather longer than 2 years. SingStar? Karaoke Revolution?

There is something kind of saddening about witnessing continual and unrelenting cynisism.

This is one of the many things that need to be consigned to the internet's very own Room 101.
Along with all the boring memes, like Halol, Wiilol, Better Than...?, First, etc, etc, etc. Whether they're done seriously or taking the piss out of people that do them seriously, it's time to stop.

I too would like to see Ellie review something happy-making. Or give her a big hug. I worry for her soul.

Read like a 1/10.

Good read though all the same. Thanks

"Theme from CSI: Miami" by The Who

Very funny, Ellie. :)

I'm no copyright lawyer, but don't you have to have an actual product on the market to claim patent infringement?

I wondered the same thing. I also wondered whether they were trying to make the game sell poorly so they could claim a greater loss of revenue.

Oh Ellie you're so hilarious!

That was my impression of ... all this lot before I read the comments.

The irony is that during the highest of the Guitar Hero strides I kinda felt bad for Konami who made Guitar Freaks ages ago and whose Beatmania never really got credit for the whole peripheral rythm thing over here. With Rock Revolution though they've effectively taken any such sympathy away from me, because this shows how obscenely inadequate they are - even with GH as template - at doing what Harmonix managed.

I mean at one point there was the Alone in The Dark -> Resident Evil thing where Infogrames was the unspoken inventor of what made the survival horror genre and subsequently Resident Evil tick, but luckily they never rolled around and made a pathetic, dated attempt at plagiarizing Resident Evil. That way they kind of still maintain the higher ground in the matter and remain underappreciated and uncredited for what they did. That's a better position than where post Rock Revolution Konami is at. :|

What are you talking about? Konami have had a product on the market for years - its in the arcades!

Meanwhile, back at the review:

"Rock Revolution is Konami's contribution to the craze for music games, and it's rubbish. It's an unoriginal......"

Stopped reading right there. Konami invented this sort of game - are we saying its unoriginal compared to their pre-existing games (so how does RB2 and GH2 and 3 rate then?) or compared to the other companies? Which is funny, seeing as Konami CAME FIRST.

It may be a crap game, but please lets not talk of originalty when GH ripped off Konami's ideas in the first place!

Hey! I live near Lewisham! Don't come here nagging about something pure and wonderful!

:D

Thanks for the laughs, by the way, excellent write-up Ellie.

Stopped reading right there. Konami invented this sort of game - are we saying its unoriginal compared to their pre-existing games (so how does RB2 and GH2 and 3 rate then?) or compared to the other companies? Which is funny, seeing as Konami CAME FIRST.

John Logy Baird invented the television. But Baird TV's are rubbish compared to the competition. And Hoover made the vacuum cleaner - same thing, a Dyson is better. So what is your point? Konami may have invented this type of game, but it doesn't make them the best at making this type of game. Other companies added things to improve the game which Konami then took away again.

@MGG

What? You can be unoriginal when you copy your own ideas. Ask George Lucas.

Seasidebaz, you're just a blinkered Dyson fanboy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_cleaner

Glad to see you read my comments all the way through then - comparing it to the original tv? WTF? I said at the end:

"It may be a crap game, but please lets not talk of originalty when GH ripped off Konami's ideas in the first place! "

I wasn't saying anything about it being good, bad or indifferent - what I object to is the claim of unoriginality, when games such as GH2 and 3 and RB2 brought practically nothing at all original to the genre! Did they get knocked for being unoriginal?

Plus the fact that it appears quite a few people on this thread don't know what they are talking about i.e. "I'm no copyright lawyer, but don't you have to have an actual product on the market to claim patent infringement?".

And no-one corrects this until me and Simon post at almost the same time? Its like saying the people that made Rock Band just copied GH!