Harmonix: Rock Band 3

Rock Band 3, the most recent installment of the ultra-popular Rock Band series. Like the other 4 games of the Rock Band series, this game features songs which can be played with the original selection of instruments: guitar controller with 5 fret buttons, drum set with 4 pads and a kick drum pedal, bass guitar(same as guitar controller), and vocals. However, three new instruments have been added to Rock Band 3. They are as follows: harmonies which can be sung in addition to the lead vocals (previously featured in The Beatles: Rock Band), a new keyboard controller with 25 keys, and a brand new "pro" guitar controller with 17 frets each with 6 strings and a button for each string on the fret which means there are (6x17) 102 buttons!!!!!! This almost forces the user to learn how to play the real guitar in order to play pro mode. Who ever can play hard difficulty on pro mode must be extremely talented, or must play the real guitar well. There is so much put into this new pro guitar controller. Basically, everything you can do with a real electric guitar, you can do with this controller. Individual string strumming, slides, chords. hammer ons and pull offs, even arpeggios, you name it. A demo of the pro guitar controller can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5De9eCH1EU. There is also somewhat of a pro drum set controller called the ION electronic drum kit, which can also be used as an electronic drum kit outside of the game. This controller has the original 4 drum pad and kick pedal with an additional 3 cymbals and a hi-hat with its corresponding pedal. Rock Band 3 is the closest you can get to playing in a real band without knowing how to play an instrument. With so many instruments there are many songs in the game which have most if not all of the instrument in it. There are also songs which have specific instruments that play most of the song.