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Rock Revolution is coming out with both a Wii and DS version

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Enter Rock Revolution, unveiled for the first time at Konami’s Pre-E3 spring event in San Francisco. Rock Revolution is right on par with other games in the music video game genre, featuring a six-pad drum kit with bass kicker plus guitar and bass peripherals. The guitars are still under wraps at this time, but we did get to see the drum kit in action.

As I said, there are six color-coded pads that represent your snare, toms, symbols, etc. plus a bass pedal. That’s two more buttons than Rock Band, but experienced drummers shouldn’t have a hard time adapting to the different pad layout. My only concern is that the interface needs some dire improvement, especially in the bass pedal department. Whereas Rock Band prompts you to kick the bass by a large horizontal orange bar that runs perpendicular across the fret board, Rock Revolution’s bass prompt is merely another blip on the note chart and looks to easily get lost in the fray.

Join the Revolution

Rock Revolution will feature over 40 rock n’ roll tracks with downloadable songs after the initial release. A full career mode will allow you to live out your rock star fantasies as you work play for 15 different venues and expand your technique library as a musical virtuoso. But the best feature of all is the state of the art multi-track recording studio where you can create your own music or jam over your favorite rock n’ roll tracks.

Rock Revolution will be available on the PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, and NDS this fall.

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“Rock Revolution” does do a couple of cool new things that “Rock Band” doesn’t. One, there’s no penalty for freestyling extra hits on the drums. I’m not a drummer, but even I feel a little constrained by “Rock Band” penalizing me for improvising during a song.

Two, Konami’s take lets you turn off the kick pedal. My girlfriend stopped trying to play “Rock Band’”s drums because the kick pedal was too much for her. “Rock Revolution” features five difficulty levels and doesn’t introduce the kick pedal until hopping into medium.

There’s also a guitar, but I didn’t have a chance to try it out. It doesn’t look much different from the stock guitar included in “Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock,” and there’s nothing differentiating it from the guitar in “Rock Band” or “Guitar Hero,” except that it’s a different color (all black). There are five buttons, but they’ve been assigned brand-new colors.

The interface is about what you’d expect from a Konami Bemani game, except the traditional animated backgrounds have been replaced with a full-fledged rock show. It’s a little odd at first, actually; I’ve become so accustomed to the slanted nature of both “Rock Band” and “Guitar Hero” that following the notes in Rock Revolution was distracting.

Konami said “Rock Revolution” will ship with at least 40 songs on the disc, with the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions getting downloadable content after launch.

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