Character designing is much better. In the older Rock Band games you would have to create a character and\u00a0play as them for a while to earn money to get new clothes for them. In RB3 you have a universal closet so anytime you make a new character you have a full wardrobe to choose from. This makes creating new characters much better as they’re fully realized much faster.<\/p>\n
I haven’t found a way to delete characters I no longer want though which is strange.<\/p>\n
Remember when I complained that people couldn’t choose characters I made, well I found the solution which was logging on as a guest.<\/p>\n
Song sorting is so much better. You can easily flip through massive lists of songs with some really nice filters which is appreciated. One bad thing though is when you’re making playlists you have to go all the way to the top to hit finish playlist. On some instruments this isn’t so bad but on others I can’t find the jump menu so finishing a set list when you’re all the way at the bottom of the song list is annoying.<\/p>\n
Overshell control is really great. Adjusting options simultaneously and individually is really great. I had heard however that one main player was setup to be master controller of song selection but it appears this isn’t so. So you still have to deal with the frustration of people randomly hitting buttons on their instruments accidentally picking songs and moving the game forward when you didn’t want them to.<\/p>\n
Challenges can be completed anywhere not just career. This is TOTALLY AWESOME for me since I mostly play in quickplay mode. So you can constantly be working towards goals even when you’re just practicing songs.<\/p>\n
The replay value in Rock Band 3 is kind of amazing as I work towards all these random challenges, some of which I will probably never be able to complete. Vocals are tough but there are a lot of vocal harmony challenges which require multiple people and multiple microphones, so I’ll probably never get those unless maybe I play online.<\/p>\n
Do I bump up my original review of RB3 from earlier? A little. I think the flaws are very unfortunate with All Instrument Mode and I’ve played a few more songs from RB3 and other than the songs I expected to like, none of the songs that I’d never heard of were particularly great to me. That’s not such a big deal except a lot of challenges are based on playing songs from RB3 exclusively so I haven’t been playing too much of my DLC. Overall if you really liked Rock Band you’ll love this one and you’ll be playing it for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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