Rock Band = Awesomeness

Mark your calenders folks, November 20th the game Rock Band hits. What is Rock Band you might ask? Check out the video below to get an idea.

How to Play this thing
Yep, you get to play the guitar, bass, drums, and sing with a microphone! The best part is you don't have to have any musical talent what so ever to have fun with it. While that video might give the impression there a real "rock band", they are all game controllers. Here's a close up of the drums to the right.

All you have to do to play is match the colored notes on the TV screen, with the color on your particular instrument. To sing, you have to try and match the pitch that it says on the TV. The microphone has a vibration sensor inside that evaluates the pitch.

Why So Great?
The reason I think this game is great, is it will raise awareness for how cool playing musical instruments are, and hopefully inspire people to play the real things. Also it takes four people to play the whole band, so it will have playing video games together socially, and hopefully strengthen relationships in that manner.