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At X’10 – Rock Band 3, keyboard and up to seven players, video preview

by Blogger on 08-27-2010 10:13 PM - last edited on 08-27-2010 10:13 PM

 

The keyboard isn’t the only thing new about the latest iteration of Rock Band, as it also rolls in the harmonies introduced with the Beatles version. 

 

At Microsoft’s X’10, I had a chance to talk with Marc Nesbitt, Senior Producer of MTV Games about some of the features and philosophy in bringing Rock Band 3 to market.

 

Harmonix also found a way around the 4 player maximum on the console.  By enabling an “All Instruments Mode”, up to 7 people can play at once (4 instruments, up to 3 singers).  The “All Instruments Mode” will track everyone during the game, but the vocalist(s) won’t be scored after the set is done.

 

Although the game is coming out on multiple platforms, here we’re obviously looking at the Xbox 360 version.

 

This was originally featured on rgbfilter.com.