Do Konami’s Drums Measure Up?
With all the excitement for the upcoming games in the musical genre like Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World tour, there really hasn’t been as much heat on the Konami pretend band game aside from their lawsuit with Harmonix. What little I’m hearing hearing isn’t very good, either. Kotaku got their hands on the drums for Konami’s Rock Revolution and boy does this thing look ugly as sin:
By god, that mess doesn’t even really look like drums. The whole point of pretending to be in a band is getting close enough to looking like you’re playing an instrument, not this which looks like Animal from the Muppets ate a drum set and vomited it out.
In case you’re wondering, Kotaku liked the feel of the drum set saying, “I found the response of the sticks off the rubbery heads extremely satisfying…” If only they didn’t look like ass, they might be a little more received, but then again most people are either waiting for Rock Band 2 or Guitar Hero: World Tour. There really isn’t a third group out there who wished for something better. Konami has an uphill battle that they must fight and so far they aren’t gaining a whole lot of ground. The only things that will really save Rock Revolution is it will be compatible with Rock Band and Guitar Hero: World Tour and have some killer songs. Even in that area things only look somewhat hopeful, but most songs have already been released on the competition or will be in the near future.
Good luck Konami. You’re going to need it.
August 13th, 2008 at 8:00 am
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