Is anyone else getting this? I'm justifying it by the fact that I'll be able to use the kit for at least three games.

I don't know, and it doesn't look like it's going to concern me that much. Apparently RB2 is massively superior to the first game and for 800 points you're going to be able to download 45 songs from the first game for RB2 - doesn't that make the need for me to buy the RB1 disc pretty much obsolete?

I think you need the rock band 1 disc to buy the transfer thing mind. You also need abotu 4000 points to download all the awesome dlc from rock band.

I don't know, and it doesn't look like it's going to concern me that much. Apparently RB2 is massively superior to the first game and for 800 points you're going to be able to download 45 songs from the first game for RB2 - doesn't that make the need for me to buy the RB1 disc pretty much obsolete?

Or just give me your stuff.

This would be preferable.

Can you just rent it though?
*should probably have asked this before spending £40 a few weeks ago*

cant see why not, you will lose a few tracks mind but Im sure the ones you do are the bonus tracks and a few cover versions.

It appears that you can rent it, yes. They have no way of knowing if a particular Rock Band disc has been used for the import or not. I'm surprised they have started putting a pack-in code with game to control this stuff.

The songs you lose are Enter Sandman by Metallica, Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden, Paranoid by Black Sabbath and Monsoon by Tokyo Hotel. In all, you transfer 55 of the 58 core Rock Band songs, and 9 of the 10 European bonus tracks. Plus all Rock Band DLC automatically transfers into Rock Band 2 for free.

Ooh, fancy lending it to me when you get RB2 then?

Oh, don't fucking say that, I only finally bought the RB1 disc at the weekend

1000 gamerscore to be gotten though. win.

1000 gamerscore to be gotten though. win.

I'm gonna go trade the fucking thing in for Pure, first chance I get then. I abhore that kind of scamming release method.

It's really stingy with gamerscore, mind.

Hmm. I think I disagree. Where is the scam?

Can you not get the gamery points from RB1 via playing RB2 then, even if playing the same songs?

My gripe with Rock Band is that the sound of the drums being whacked drowns out a lot of the music.

If I understand correctly, my purchase of Rock Band was a wasted one if I am to ever get Rock Band II (and since I've just bought the first one, this is likely), without any indication that is the case. But of course, not ALL of the songs are available. No, no, no. Leave off a tasty number like Enter Sandman *wink* that'll ensure the kids still buy the first one.

Also, you need to have a Rock Band disc to do the import process, and I suspect doing it from a borrowed or rented copy is probably illegal under the T&Cs. It's not a wasted purchase.

We actively encourage dead thread resurrection, so don't worry.

We actively encourage dead thread resurrection, so don't worry. To answer your question, I guess both. It'll play much like GHIII, but will also be half a game (bass and guitar, remember).

There wasnt a bass guitar career on rock band, not sure if theres one on guitar hero world tour, probably not because bass is boring.

I'm getting rid of my two X-Plorers when World Tour arrives, as I don't have room for them all.

Terrible. But they could be just crap at it.

Terrible. But they could be just crap at it.

Unfortunately I don't think it matters how good you are at creating songs in it as the game appears to do a shit job of generating charts from songs

Reading through a press release about the upcoming Best Buy midnight opening launch event for Quantum of Solace, I stumbled upon this interesting tidbit:

Additionally, those in line at 10:00 PM will get the exclusive opportunity to be one of the first to play the Bond song “Another Way to Die” performed by Jack White and Alicia Keys which is soon-to-be-released as downloadable content for Activision’s Guitar Hero® World Tour.