The Beatles Rockband

Overview
The Beatles: Rock Band is a 2009 music video game developed by Harmonix, published by MTV Games, and distributed by Electronic Arts. It is the third major console release in the Rock Band music video game series, in which players can simulate the playing of rock music by using controllers shaped like musical instruments. The Beatles: Rock Band is the first band-centric game in the series, and it is centered on the popular English rock group the Beatles. The game features virtual portrayals of the four band members performing the songs throughout the band's history, including depictions of some of their famous live performances, as well as a number of "dreamscape" sequences for songs from the Abbey Road Studios recording sessions during the group's studio years. The game's soundtrack consists of 45 Beatles songs; additional songs and albums by the Beatles were made available for the game as downloadable content.[1]

The game was released internationally on September 9, 2009, coinciding with the release of new, remastered compact disc versions of the Beatles' albums. It incorporates many of the gameplay features of the Rock Band series; however, it is not an expansion pack for the Rock Band series and content for it and other Rock Band titles is not cross-compatible. Harmonix co-founder Alex Rigopulos described the game as "a new, full game title production built from the ground up".[2] Gameplay mechanics differ slightly from previous Rock Band games, including the addition of a three-part vocal harmony system. Subsequent games in the Rock Band series would reuse these new elements, including vocal harmonies.

The game was developed with the blessing and critical input of Apple Corps, including former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, who both made public appearances supporting the game. George Harrison's son Dhani helped to bridge discussion between Harmonix and Apple Corps, while Giles Martin, son of the Beatles' music producer George Martin, ensured high-fidelity versions of the Beatles' songs would be available.

The Beatles: Rock Band was well received by the press, both as a genuine means of experiencing the music and history of the Beatles and as a standalone music video game. Although the game's sales were considered respectable, with more than half a million units sold during its first month of release in the United States, analysts had projected larger sales volumes and attributed the lower sales to waning interest in the rhythm game genre and the video game industry recovery from the late-2000s recession.

Why It Rocks (No pun intended)

 * 1) The intro cutscene features plenty of Beatles references for longtime fans of the band, as well as a psychedelic style near the end
 * 2) The style continues into the ending cutscene which plays after finishing Story Mode
 * 3) The game has their own instrument peripherals based on the Beatles actual instruments such as the Hofner Violin bass and Ringo's Ludwig drumkit
 * 4) Even if you don't have them, the game is backwards compatible with other Rockband instruments from earlier titles and Guitar Hero ones too
 * 5) You can sort the song order from title name, release date, album it was on or how hard it is
 * 6) There's several achievements one can get in game based on how well they do in songs based on the difficulty settings and what instruments are used
 * 7) The settings each songs take place in are different every time
 * 8) * All Please Please Me songs are played at the Cavern Club
 * 9) * The Hard Day's Night and With The Beatles songs play at the Ed Sullivan Show
 * 10) * The earlier singles, Help!, Beatles for Sale and Rubber Soul songs take place at Shea Stadium and Revolver at the Budokan stadium
 * 11) * Sgt Pepper to Abbey Road songs are all in studio using a psychedelic style known as Dreamscape
 * 12) * Let It Be is only played at the Rooftop concert
 * 13) The Dreamscape for each song has their own unique visual style depending on the song material
 * 14) Each song has special white notes that fill up your Beatlemania bar, and by shaking the guitar control or shouting into a blank spot on the singing bar, the player can double their combo and gain more points to easily get five stars
 * 15) No Fail mode is available when the player selects their instrument, in case they have trouble on a certain song
 * 16) * It's automatically turned on for anyone who selects Easy mode
 * 17) The game has a story mode where the player can go through each song through Beatles history and plays each song in chronological order. Depending on how many five stars earned on each song, the player will get to unlock photos of the Beatles
 * 18) * And enough of said photos will allow the player to unlock videos of things like the Beatles Christmas record, behind the scenes of the First US trip and music videos
 * 19) The song The End can be unlocked after completing Story Mode too, and will become available in Freeplay upon completing it
 * 20) There's a total of 45 tracks in the game, with another 39 downloadable tracks
 * 21) The end credits consists of audio outtakes of the Beatles in the studio

The only two Bad Qualities

 * 1) Including the downloadable tracks, there's only one song from Help! and Beatles for Sale respectively, and while the original Within You Without You is available from the download store, Tomorrow Never Knows isn't and is only part of the Love mashup
 * 2) The downloadable tracks are no longer available for purchase as of 2016, but those who bought the songs before then are able to download them