This year's big three music game releases are crafting wildly different identities, and each game's constantly-growing tracklists are starting to reflect that. Read on for the 22 new Warriors of Rock songs, the six new Rock Band tracks, and the three new Dance Central grooves you'll have stuck in your head later this year.
The largest block of new tracks revealed are for Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, with 22 new tracks being announced for the game. As you can see below, the game focuses more on more well-known classic rock tracks, including two re-recordings that you can learn more about in this video -- "Cherry Bomb" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy."
"Burn" from Deep Purple
"Burnin' For You" from Blue Oyster Cult
"Call Me The Breeze" from Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Calling" from Strung Out
"Cherry Bomb" from The Runaways
"Free Ride" from The Edgar Winter Group
"Hard To See" from Five Finger Death Punch
"I'm Broken" from Pantera
"Machinehead" from Bush
"Motivation" from Sum 41
"Move It On Over" from George Thorogood and the Destroyers
"No More Mr. Nice Guy" from Alice Cooper
"Ravenous" by Atreyu
"Re-Ignition" by Bad Brains
"Renegade" by Styx
"Savior" from Rise Against
"Scumbag Blues" from Them Crooked Vultures
"Seven Nation Army" from The White Stipes
"Speed" from Steve Vai
"Spiderman" from The Ramones
"Ties That Bind" from Alter Bridge
"Unskinny Bop" from Poison
The tracks for Rock Band 3 are a little more contemporary, with a couple of songs meant to cater to the game's new keyboard piano peripheral. Here's the six latest additions to the game.
"The Beautiful People" from Marilyn Manson
"Cold As Ice" from Foreigner
"Everybody Wants To Rule The World" from Tears for Fears
"Foolin" from Def Leppard
"Hey Man, Nice Shot" from Filter
"Rock Lobster" from The B-52s
The Dance Central tracks, as you would expect, are all hip-hop songs that are easy to dance to. Here's the three latest songs announced for the first Kinect dancing game:
"Bust A Move" from Young MC
"Drop It Like It's Hot" from Snoop Dogg
"Push It" from Salt-N-Pepa
Which of these new tracks catch your ear the most? Which (if any) music games are you planning on purchasing this year?
SOURCES: New Rock Band 3, Dance Central Tracks Revealed [G4TV]
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock--Exclusive Phase 2 Playlist Reveal [Amazon]
Source: Daily News from GamePro.com
Tuesday, July 27, 2010