The following reviews are used to calculate the overall reception for this game. All applicable scores are converted to our simplified rating system based on the specifics offered by each publication or the tone of each review. You can read more about how we do this here.
November 19, 2007 - Excellent - Guitar Hero is still the way to go for lone wolves, but if you have the space, the manpower, and the means, Rock Band unquestionably, unequivocally rocks.
November 21, 2007 - Excellent - Is this game better than Guitar Hero III? This reviewer says, yes definitely. Then again, value-conscious shoppers and brand loyalists might stick with the $99 Guitar Hero III package.
November 20, 2007 - Excellent - Rock Band is easily one of the most ambitious music games ever produced, and that it is so successful in its ambition makes it something really special.
November 20, 2007 - Excellent - [Rock Band is] an experience like no other in videogames, and it's amazingly realized considering it's really the first time anyone's tried it.
November 19, 2007 - Excellent - This is the perfectly polished, logical extension of what Guitar Hero started and where the music genre needed to go. It just rocks.
November 16, 2007 - Excellent - The presentation elements are top-notch and take music games to a new level; consider the bar raised. Without question, Rock Band is one of the must-have games of the year.
June 11, 2008 - Excellent - If you're unlikely to play with friends Rock Band is hard to recommend, with Guitar Hero being the more sensible option, but if you're planning plenty of get-togethers, Rock Band will provide more than enough enjoyment to warrant its price tag.
May 29, 2008 - Good - We do recommend Rock Band - it's outrageous, hilarious and memorable, and the best four-players-on-one-screen multiplayer game since GoldenEye - but you shouldn't buy it until you've thought long and hard about what else you could spend the money on.
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