Rock Band gets Warped, Maroon-ed

  • By philonious_matt, GameSpot
  • Posted Jun 19, 2009 4:38 pm PT

Toss another few songs onto the Rock Band heap. Today, Harmonix and MTV Games announced two new track packs containing 8 songs are coming to the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Marketplace. The first features the Warped Tour Pack, which includes five songs from bands playing this year's Warped...

Toss another few songs onto the Rock Band heap. Today, Harmonix and MTV Games announced two new track packs containing 8 songs are coming to the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Marketplace. The first features the Warped Tour Pack, which includes five songs from bands playing this year's Warped Tour. These include such acts as A Day to Remember, Bad Religion, Chiodos, Escape the Fate, and Underoath. The Warped Tour is a yearly music and extreme sports festival that first kicked off in 1994. This summer's Warped Tour spans from the end of June to the end of August, and features pro-skating and BMX exhibitions along with a diverse line-up of bands.

The second track pack is from multiplatinum Los Angeles rock quintet Maroon 5, and consists of three songs: "Little of Your Time," "Makes Me Wonder," and "Wake Up Call." Both packs will be available for download on the Xbox Live Marketplace on June 23 and the PlayStation Store on June 24. The Maroon 5 Pack costs 440 Microsoft Points or $5.49 while the Warped Tour Pack weighs in at MSP680 or $8.49. All eight new titles can be purchased individually as well for MSP160 or $2 on either service.

WARPED TOUR TRACK PACK
A Day to Remember - "The Downfall of Us All"
Bad Religion - "21st Century Digital Boy"
Chiodos - "I Didn't Say I was Powerful, I Said I was a Wizard"
Escape the Fate - "The Flood"
Underoath - "Reinventing Your Exit"

MAROON 5 TRACK PACK
Maroon 5 - "Little of Your Time"
Maroon 5 - "Makes Me Wonder"
Maroon 5 - "Wake Up Call"

129 Comments

  • CamiKitten

    Posted Jun 23, 2009 6:10 am PT

    Ok I like Chiodos, so that works but....that's the lamest Maroon 5 list ever.

  • Excedra

    Posted Jun 23, 2009 2:48 am PT

    bottomline: WHO CARES?????

  • ernest-young

    Posted Jun 22, 2009 11:56 pm PT

    Don't really care for this list here.

  • josiah4972

    Posted Jun 22, 2009 4:35 pm PT

    The warped tour tracks a good idea, but maroon 5? i mean... c'mon!

  • Absolutezerr

    Posted Jun 22, 2009 2:43 pm PT

    So no streetlight manifesto or some of the good warped tour bands? I agree with el_polloloco here! At least give us more paramore or something but for god's sake, maroon 5? That's even stranger than giving us the evanescence from last week... Bad Religion is amazing. Rock Band needs more good punk- throw is some more DK, bad religion, offspring, and rise against, give us some Sex Pistols or Bad Brains even, they have some really fun songs.

  • Tranceplant

    Posted Jun 22, 2009 11:37 am PT

    Gotta agree with Evandemocracy too.
    You might want more heavy metal tracks like DaIamar wants but you gotta also serve the punk crowd and the pop-rock crowd... even if you don't like it.

  • DaIamar

    Posted Jun 22, 2009 10:44 am PT

    Rock Band transforms into pop-mtv band. Seriously, who cares for this bunch of crap? Give me some Dream Theater or Helloween.

  • dagobaker

    Posted Jun 22, 2009 8:56 am PT

    figure with beetles rock band coming out this fall its going to mostly be just song releases
    figure next rock band will be crazy......and u better be able to play all songs from 1 and 2
    bought the pearl jam 10 and the janes addiction nothing shocking......
    this was when rock/alternative was tearing it up....todays music is a complete joke

  • smackedfortrust

    Posted Jun 22, 2009 6:33 am PT

    ok... i understand most of you are manly men and don't like most of these songs... but keep in mind rockband is a great game to play with everyone even younger siblings... mine are extremely excited about these songs. granted i personally could live without out these songs but i enjoy playing with the siblings so ill be glad to get a few more songs so i can stop playing sponge bob and all american rejects.

  • Ryking

    Posted Jun 22, 2009 6:09 am PT

    Just a whole bunch of don't give a crap with these releases. Maroon 5? Really?

  • elglebo

    Posted Jun 22, 2009 5:40 am PT

    they need to put some biffy clyro songs on it

  • lexxxy52

    Posted Jun 22, 2009 4:53 am PT

    some exciting tracks good to see escape the fate on rock band although im more of a Radke era fan of escape the fate and a day to remember and chiodos should be fun although i must say maroon 5 is not going to be very high on any list of dlc i'll be getting anytime soon.

  • Poison_Me_Rum

    Posted Jun 22, 2009 3:46 am PT

    I do believe this is the first of two Warped Tour packs. According to Wikipedia, there's another pack due out of the 30th. None of the tracks really take my fancy, but I have always been impressed with Harmonix's promise to deliver weekly downloadable content, and is the main reason why I prefer Rock Band to Guitar Hero.

  • pillazz

    Posted Jun 22, 2009 2:19 am PT

    I agree with Evandemocracy...not all tracks are for everyone, but some more commercial tracks gets the kids involved as I was recently asked if there were any tracks from this century on Rockband...ouch!

  • Evandemocracy

    Posted Jun 22, 2009 12:09 am PT

    There trying to suit a wide range of gamers might not be your cup of tea but hey, a good percent of fans are looking forward to this but for i it could come or go.

  • morgonstjarnan

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 11:48 pm PT

    If Maroon 5 is rock, then my name is Gandhi.

  • el_polloloco

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 11:01 pm PT

    no more of this hot topic bs you call music please!! for god sake there are loads better bands in the warped tour line up this year. bad religion is probably the most decent band on that whole list, but come on 21st century digital boy, really? you guys can do better than that. at least some better punk from the line up like some good old fashion bouncing souls or something. hell throw in some ska. id love to see that. but as for maroon 5 all i got to say is whatever floats your boat.

  • gamer594

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 10:28 pm PT

    Why the hell isnt this for wii.

  • snare411

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 8:37 pm PT

    ADTR! HELL YEA!

  • SSJ_Tenx

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 8:22 pm PT

    when are we gunna see some cake? or at least sublime...?

  • RedSoxfan67

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 7:18 pm PT

    i think there should be some korn, three days grace, or maybe some slipknot dlc that would be cool. How about crossfade, or kings of leon, or rise against i can keep on coming with suggestions all day, come on harmonix, we know u can do it, i think we want dlc like that

  • RockToTheLed

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 7:03 pm PT

    A Day to Remember is great, though I don't know how fun it'd be to play. Sky Eats Airplane please!!

  • worldind913

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 6:57 pm PT

    Woah....You mean there are actually fans of Maroon 5, or are they just brain-washed popular radio fans?

  • latin_boi

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 5:34 pm PT

    I've never thought this before, but the supply of music to draw from for these games is really starting to diminish. Just looking at the songs already announced for GH5, I can only find 3, maybe 4 songs that I would be interested in playing.

  • kurohubby

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 4:50 pm PT

    @ernest-young
    half of those song you said they DO have

  • kurohubby

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 4:47 pm PT

    at least some Bad Religion, but what about some NOFX and Reel Big Fish, folks that played it for years these other "warped" songs I never heard of

  • Strategygamer22

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 4:26 pm PT

    Wow, more crap to download

  • glitcho471

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 4:15 pm PT

    The only DLC I want is Dream Theater

  • BoogieManZero

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 2:51 pm PT

    @Tremblay343

    heh...I was going to say that same thing. This isn't getting me back in the music game.

  • Tremblay343 posted Jun 21, 2009 1:02 pm PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    Tremblay343

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 1:02 pm PT (hide)

    All those bands suck hard.

  • N-One

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 1:00 pm PT

    Waiting for this to come to Wii.

  • dRuGGeRnaUt

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 12:52 pm PT

    and about ernest-young, it hink he was stating that he wanted more music from those bands, not the lame songs they chose to include(for the most part).. seriously, "what ive done" by linkin park?? they have WAAAAAAY better options than that, same with all the other bands.. look at all the queen songs they have released AND NO BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY?!?! WTF?!?! they know they will just release all these main songs people want, but do it on the next full priced disc they release rather than DLC, which doesnt make sense

  • dRuGGeRnaUt

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 12:48 pm PT

    seriously man, the DLC for both rockband and GHWT are REALLY LACKING.. seriously last i checked GHWT is on "European track pack 8: now with more franz ferdinand".. i understand people like this music, but we need some EPIC songs buy amazing bands, not just pop songs that are rated 1 on all difficulties. seriously, I haven't paid to download a song in over a year, and that was for the first rockband.. If they brought out songs by some killer artists then i would be, for me listening to top 100 pop is not epic OR fun.. seriously, what is with all these REALLY easy songs they keep releasing?? Smash Hits(GH) is a perfect example. most of those songs are beginner at best, i played the demo, and those songs ALONE guaranteed that i would not buy that game "Smash Hits" more like "full of s***"

  • IceDefenseGod

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 12:22 pm PT

    What do we have to do for some Three Days Grace DLC?

  • Gorilla97

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 11:47 am PT

    i'm country... and still waiting on some keith urban and more brad paisley.

  • RMMaxwell04

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 11:15 am PT

    @ernest-young: Epic fail. Just like sandman95 said, they literally have 4/5 of all the stuff you listed.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_downloadable_songs_for_the_Rock_Band_series

  • guyguyguy1234

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 7:57 am PT

    Maroon 5? Ill be gettin that. Sounds fun.

  • sandman95

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 7:33 am PT

    ernest-young: do your realize that most of the things you listed are things they already released?

  • NotToBeDied

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 7:19 am PT

    chiodos played in my friends livingroom about 4 years ago. now they're on video games. funny.

  • HuskyMuffin495

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 7:13 am PT

    dude adtr thats sick all rock band need is to have all the cds of the devil wears prada!!!! TeXaS iS sOuTh!!!!!!!

  • comb5

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 6:27 am PT

    A Day To Remember and Chiodos are awesome.
    The other bands, not so much. And people should give them a listen before they just assume they're not gonna like it. Lumping all bands together by association is never good.

  • Peaches1347

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 5:53 am PT

    BOO get bayside on there!

  • grey_fox1984

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 3:26 am PT

    The best band on Warped Tour this year is Down With Webster- they should be on this track pack for sure!

  • ernest-young posted Jun 21, 2009 2:17 am PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    ernest-young

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 2:17 am PT (hide)

    Not a bad track pack. But come on Rock Band, put some REAL tracks up there like: Linkin Park, In Flames, System of a Down, Yngwie, Dragonforce, Evanesence, Fall Out Boy, Steve Omuette, Slipknot, Korn, Avenged Sevenfold, Coheed and Cambria, Cartel, My Chemical Romance, Lacuna Coil, Panic at the Disco, Godsmack, Alein Ant Farm (Smooth Criminal), and the lists goes on and on. If they had songs like these, I'll go broke buying ALL THESE SONGS (well most of them).

  • kruniac

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 12:57 am PT

    Wow you think Maroon 5 is better than all of the warped bands...you must be smoking crack i have see all those bands live and each warp bands is great...just because you guy don't like the music doesn't mean you have to buy the pack...just go play your maroon 5 songs and be bored...I bet the warp songs are gonna be sweet...So all you haters can shut up

  • Droymac

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 12:46 am PT

    Every mentioned band here is HOR-RI-BLE

  • americansolsrfr

    Posted Jun 20, 2009 11:08 pm PT

    more escape the fate. Need The Devil Wears Prada badly. ghwt has them, but rb needs them it would be awesome.

  • mrzero1982pt2

    Posted Jun 20, 2009 10:52 pm PT

    dont own the game, and even if i did, i wouldnt purchase these. maroon 5 is good and their album showed a change in music to a more funk themed sound, but the warped tour sucks. its more or less pop instead of rock. chiodos or whatev breaks up and comes back together, and the rest of these folks(SANS BAD RELIGION, i wound up hearing them for the first time on crazy taxi... which if it came to any system's online store, i would sell my soul to buy, and delete save files for it!) is the only band worth looking at...

  • buffdaddy69

    Posted Jun 20, 2009 10:27 pm PT

    " MegaXtreme

    Posted Jun 21, 2009 6:03 am GMT

    Give me thumbs down all you want, guys. They all suck. Not wasting my cash on this."

    I second that. Seriouslly. Why pay 8 bucks for 4 songs that are going to sound the same anyway. Each of those bands, put out an album, and 80% of the album sounds the same, but witha different tempo,song title and, lyrics.

  • MegaXtreme

    Posted Jun 20, 2009 10:03 pm PT

    Give me thumbs down all you want, guys. They all suck. Not wasting my cash on this.

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