Rock Band Download Low-Down: Week 42
Each week we’ll run out onto our website stage like roadies and review the latest Rock Band Downloadable Content. Check back every week! (And click here for all of our previous music DLC reviews.)
*NOTE: Each of the songs this week is available for 80 Microsoft Points ($1) each, or bundled together as the PAX Pack for 240 Microsoft Points ($3). Proceeds from this DLC will go to Penny Arcade's Child's Play charity.
MC Frontalot rocks PAX 2007.
PAX Collection
WHAT ROCKS: Reaching out to the geeks of the world, this week's pack is a singer's dream. A nerdy singer's dream, anyway. Jonathan Coulton (the same guy who wrote Portal's "Still Alive" -- which is of course also available in Rock Band) delivers a hilarious love letter from an evil dictator (no really, listen to the lyrics!) in the form of "Skullcrusher Mountain." MC Frontalot's "Livin' at the Corner of Dude and Catastrophe" will one day be the answer to a trivia question: what was the first rap song in Rock Band? Meanwhile, "Shhh..." by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets sports a deceptively fun bass line and drum chart.
WHAT SUCKS: Guitar on "Dude and Catastrophe" is ludicrously repetitive and boring.
FINAL VERDICT: We'd probably normally give this a "Not Bad," but they're just a buck each and it's all for charity. So reach into your wallet, pull out $3, buy these, and enjoy them!
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CashWheel
September 13, 2008 at 5:01pm
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?
xpects the xpctd
September 06, 2008 at 2:14pm
Charity, great. Keep it up. I'm trying to think of a new gamertag, so by cutting out 800 from my budget, I don't think I can nab this one. Hopefully the next couple weeks bring a big hitter besides Rush, or else I'll just save the extra for RB2.
DrWorm
September 05, 2008 at 6:43pm
"what was the first rap song in Rock Band?" The *real* answer to this would be the Beastie Boy's "Sabotage".
Purp1eHayes
September 05, 2008 at 2:50pm
"Skullcrusher Mountain" is one of my favorite DLC songs so far. It's the only song that I've nearly failed because I was too busy laughing at the lyrics. I ruined a pony for you! Great pack. Not really looking forward to next weeks - but really looking forward to the 14th!
ill sue y4
September 05, 2008 at 1:45pm
i was kinda dissapointed w/ the last 2 weeks. (A.K.A any thing released after the roadrunner tack pack)
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