Rock Revolution For Wii by Konami

By Aaron Reed

Konami announced that it will be publishing the game Rock Revolution for Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and the DS. Rock Revolution is set to release in October.

Konami the makers off the DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) series have a lot of experience with music and rhythm games so you can expect Rock Revolution to have some unique features.

One of the major things Konami is pushing is that the game is made by musicians and will feature "the most realistic drum peripheral on the market". They weren't kidding either, this drum set has 7 inputs on it, 6 pads and a kick pedal. So if you felt intimidated by Rock Bands drum set, this should really make you wet your pants. At the same time, those looking for a greater challenge or people who play real drums might appreciate all the detail put into the drumset and game.

Another interesting detail about Rock Revolution is that the game has guitars and drums, but no vocals. This is good news because it means you wont mess up on guitar or drums when laughing at your friend trying to sing one of many impossible songs.

One strange thing about Rock Revolution is the difference between versions, the DS and for some reason the Wii version will not have online play, and will not use a Drum set or Guitar. The Wii version will have "Air Guitar" and "Air Drum" type play and on a side note the DS version does include vocals. Confused yet?

Xbox 360 and PS3: Bass, Guitar, Drums

Wii: Air Bass, Air Guitar, Air Drums

DS: Vocals. (Stylus for Guitar and Drums)

All in all Rock Revolution should be a great addition to the musical instrument genre. It will be interesting to see if Konami can pull it off this time, after their previous attempt with the game "Guitar Freaks" (the real first guitar game made in 1999), remember that? Probably not... It never quite made it to the U.S.

To me, all of this competition is a good thing; it will keep gaming companies from quickly publishing the same game over and over as a 2, 3 and 4 just for money. Also it should cause them to innovate more just to keep their fan base from going to the other musical instrument games.

Now if only we could get all of these companies, Konami, Activision, and Harmonix to agree on a standard for the back end of their controller software so all guitar controllers would work with all games, etc. we'd be set. Of course when new games introduce new equipment, like a drum set with 7 buttons instead of 4, it's hard to see how they will ever reach some kind of standard.

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