The Beatles Rock Band is amazing

I got The Beatles Rock Band for Xbox 360 the day it came out, and boy, is it awesome. So far I've mostly just been singing (and sounding terrible), but I played the guitar a couple times. On easy. Because I suck. I'll check out the drums eventually, but I enjoy singing despite sounding like I'm in immense pain. The graphics are beautiful and really add to the experience. I knew if they were going to do this game they would do it right and it does not disappoint. It looks real, surreal, and fantastic all at once. The song selection is also great. There are songs from all the periods of their career. All four members of the band are represented vocally, as there are songs with lead vocals by each member.

SONGS INCLUDED IN THE GAME

A Hard Day's Night

And Your Bird Can Sing

Back In The USSR

Birthday

Boys

Can't Buy Me Love

Come Together

Day Tripper

Dear Prudence

Dig A Pony

Do You Want To Know A Secret

Don't Let Me Down

Drive My Car

Eight Days A Week

Get Back

Getting Better

Good Morning Good Morning

Hello Goodbye

Helter Skelter

Here Comes The Sun

Hey Bulldog

I Am The Walrus

I Feel Fine

I Me Mine

I Saw Her Standing There

I Wanna Be Your Man

I Want To Hold Your Hand

I Want You (She's So Heavy)

If I Needed Someone

I'm Looking Through You

I've Got A Feeling

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

Octopus's Garden

Paperback Writer

Revolution

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With A Little Help From My Friends

Something

Taxman

The End (unlocked after completing Story Mode)

Ticket To Ride

Tomorrow Never Knows/Within You Without You

Twist And Shout

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Yellow Submarine

DOWNLOADABLE SONGS/ALBUMS

All You Need Is Love (available September 9, 2009)

Abbey Road (available October 20, 2009)

Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Oh! Darling

Because

You Never Give Me Your Money

Sun King

Mean Mr. Mustard

Polythene Pam

She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

Golden Slumbers

Carry That Weight

Her Majesty

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (available November 2009)

Fixing A Hole

She's Leaving Home

Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite

Within You Without You

When I'm Sixty-Four

Lovely Rita

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)

A Day In The Life

Rubber Soul (available December 2009)

Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

You Won't See Me

Nowhere Man

Think For Yourself

The Word

Michelle

What Goes On

Girl

In My Life

Wait

Run For Your Life

I'm pretty pleased with that selection as is, and very excited at the idea of more songs/albums being available for download, especially Rubber Soul. My only complaint is the mashup of Tomorrow Never Knows and Within You Without You. I love those two songs a lot on their own and would like to play them separately. Plus I happen to have a lot of trouble singing Within You Without You, so I'd like to be able to ignore it and sing the entire Tomorrow Never Knows instead of two lines of it. Within You Without You will be playable separately when Abbey Road is released October 20, so at least we will have that one soon. I still need a wireless adapter for the Xbox 360 though. I really don't want to cough up $100 right now.

Personally, I'm awful at singing the songs Ringo does lead on. For John, Paul, and George I usually can match the notes pretty well, but Ringo is too tricky for me. I did alright on Boys, but all the other ones were not so good. Fortunately for me, you don't need to sound good to succeed at singing in the game, you just need to be able to hit highs and lows. But it's too hard for me when Ringo is singing. But go figure, I'm way better at singing in The Beatles Rock Band than singing most songs in the regular Rock Band games. I don't know if they're easier or if I'm just so used to them because I've been singing them for years.

Here is the opening cinematic to the game. It's great and it still doesn't even do the whole game justice. It's that awesome.