Bought this at Costco today, all instruments (I put "all weapons" then
) for £135, thanks to Mart's suggestion.
I'm 50/50 on it, I think the Rock Band game itself is just a tad better. This is a lot harder to the point where you have to be so accurate with your bashing/strumming it's ridiculous, you have to be millisecond accurate and it spoils it a bit.
When it comes to the three instruments though... The drums are really winding me up, to the point where it's not fun to play the game. I opened up the music creator to test each pad and they all work great, apart from both cymbals which
do work but you have to absolutely WHACK them, in the EXACT centre (which is awkward), otherwise they don't register the hit 1-2 times out of 10. On Rock Band, drumming on expert (for the first half of the songs), I could get 95%. On this, between the millisecond accuracy you need to have and the cymbals missing my press every now and then, the best I've had is 65%. So frustrating.
I mean, a cymbal makes a noise if you so much as breathe on it (at any point, more so the outside than the centre), so it's ridiculous that you hit these reasonably hard on the edge and it doesn't register anything.
Saying that, they're a lot more comfortable to use, the pedal can go anywhere and doesn't move off while you're pushing it, and if the cymbals just did what they were supposed to do I'd love them to bits. So I'm hoping if I get this sensitivity kit thing sent out it'll fix them, but I doubt it, I think it's a hardware thing where it's just not picking anything up if you don't thrash the cymbals. But we'll see.
I have to say though I do really like the guitar. I prefer the buttons on the Rock Band guitar, and the touch-sensitive neck I haven't really fiddled with yet, but THE STRUM-BAR CLACKS! God I missed that. I can understand why people like Tim hate all the clacking it makes, it is offputting if you're listening to it, but for me it's how it should be. With the RB guitar sometimes you miss a note and you feel like it could be because of the sponginess of the strum-bar.
Both games need some decent music though, all the songs I've played so far have been dire. They're not stupid are they, £40 for the disc, rubbish songs all-round, immediately there's decent DLC available for £3.50 a pack...
EDIT: Oh, and the music creation thing - it's the kind of thing I could play with for hours and happily make my own stuff, it is impressive, but at the same time when it comes to downloading other people's stuff I'm not interested. When you're fiddling around yourself it sounds alright but when you listen to the songs other people have put togther you realise that it actually sounds a bit rubbish.
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