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Great review. I could relate to a lot of the things you mentioned, and I enjoyed reading it from your perspective.

Then, suddenly, it was 3am(add full stop) Somewhere along the line

Even if your tone-death (should be "deaf") friend

you’re stuck on the drums for ("with"?) the repetitive baseline that serves Queen’s We Will Rock You

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If you heard her try and sing that song, man, the one thing on your mind would be death, too.

Thanks for the catches. recently, only having three typos in a review is some kind of personal record, so here's hoping that part of my game is back on the mend. Have you played the Lego version, Ben? I tend to remember you as someone pretty handy on the gutiar.

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Good review. I doubt that it will come as a surprise to you to learn that I actually like the All-American Rejects (their "When the World Comes Down" CD doesn't even really have a song on it that I don't like). Despite that unfortunate snipe, I felt that the review did a nice job of covering your adventures with the sort of game that I expected you to hate... but that you wound up not really hating at all.

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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy on reality

"What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it really is a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things." - Shigeru Miyamoto

Yep, I do have Lego Rock Band. I got it cheap and had a good time with the songs on guitar, which surprised me considering the setlist was definitely more family-friendly. I never got around to finishing the career (I ended up exporting the songs in the end to play on Rock Band 2), but it was fun. Maybe we should play a few songs online if the opportunity arises. I think FIFA takes priority, though.

Oh, and I found another typo!

even though the game is full of catchy tunes, most of these are surprisingly fun to play though ("through").

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This review was well funny.

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My disappointment in you, Jason, is tangible.

Thanks for the further catches, Ben. Sadly, I play Rock Band on the Wii. Because I still hang on to enough elitism not to drop money on a plastic drum kit (and, thus, play someone elses copy) when I buy a new cymbal every seven seconds for the real one. They're like brass-flavoured crack to me. I'll still be up for schooling you at FIFA when I'm back online, though.

Thanks, Bloomer! Now, to wait eagerly for Electronic Hero so you can pen a begrudging review on that and complete the circe!

(I'm still half-expecting Lewis to turn up and call me a bunch of names.)

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Oh, I see. So you never actually owned a copy of this after all. This version of the game might also explain why I couldn't find that song on my friend's version of Rock Band 2 even though he'd imported everything from the first and had quite a few downloaded songs. (Though I guess it's possible I just somehow missed it in the set list... though I swear I combed that thing several times.)

I like to make the guys that tackle the drums play YYZ on expert (or at least hard). It's often hilarious, especially when they fail a lot and the rest of us have to save them. I'm also amused when they complain their wrists hurt because none of them are actually real drummers.

I, of course, just stick with the guitar or bass because that's all I've learned to do with the Rock Band / Guitar Hero series and I'm not even that great. I refuse to try and learn anything else because I can't stand the humiliation. (Plus I know I don't have the hand-eye coordination for drumming, and we're not even going to discuss vocals. ...uggggh... XD)

Anyway, typos:

lawsuits of lazy gamers discontent with earlier games forcing you to play though stages to unlock tracks) and, it might be fair to say that the library is on the light side

Hm... Depending on what you were trying to say, I think "gamers' discontent" or "gamers discontented" sounds better. I think you were going for the latter, though. I only make the suggestion to keep the sentence in the same tense as the rest of it.

The forty five songs included on the disk is mostly full of modernistic pop aimed at the younger audience it was assumed this game would be aimed towards

are. Also, you say "aimed" twice. Maybe the latter occurrence should be "marketed" or something similar.

Cameo efforts by the likes of Iggy pop, David Bowie and Spinal Tap(‘s worst effort) do their best to appeal to those who’d rather chew off their own ears then listen to All American Rejects, but even though the game is full of catchy (if not shallow) tunes, most of these are surprisingly fun to play through

Iggy Pop should be capitalized, and the sentence is altogether a little too long. I'd break it up around "but even though..."

My biggest rival through the tour mode was a disgruntled drum-playing octopus who wasn’t included in the band due to an obscure rule on sea life not being allowed in a contracted band, and I had to help demolish a strangely indestructible building by playing Tick Tick Boom at it until it fell over

I think I'm a bit confused here because I originally thought there'd be some relationship between the rival and the demolition game, but it doesn't really sound like it. It sounds instead like you're just illustrating some of the quirkier aspects of the Lego version, in which case, I think you'd have better impact if you split these two things up somehow.

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Anyway, this was a fantastic review. The style made it both personal and humorous (in a good way), and I'm still amused at the fact that you were actually charmed into liking a music-themed game of this particular trend, especially with your revulsion of (almost) all things musical.

This game really does seem different(ish) from the other titles in teh Rock Band franchise. After reading the review completely, I don't recognize any of the bands or songs as being on the Rock Band version I've played at my friend's house. From what you describe of it, though, I think I'd prefer the traditional Rock Band set list since I'm really not into the pop stuff (though I do like Queen - you make me sad.)

But yeah. This is great. I think you have a good chance of winning RotW this week.

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