Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Rock Star: How close is Rock Band to the real thing? You'd have to do a lot- and we mean a lot-of drugs to confuse the two

摘要

If you're a teenager, young adult, parent, mall shopper, bar goer, TV watcher, or newspaper reader, you've probably heard of Activision's Guitar Hero, the video game that hands you a plastic, guitar-shaped USB controller and tells you which buttons to push in order to "play" along with groups as diverse as White Zombie and the Rolling Stones. But even Guitar Heroes get lonely, which may be why MTV recently paid $175 million to purchase Harmonix - the software studio that created the game - and instructed them to make Rock Band, adding a plastic microphone, bass, and drum set to the mix.