Tweet Review Platform: PS3 Publisher: Harmonix Price: $59.99 Pros: Solid gameplay; great animations and environments Cons: Brings nothing new to the genre Verdict: Buy it if you want Rockband content or are a big Green Day fan Review Copy Provided by Publisher Music games. You love them, right? I certainly...

Tweet Two great tastes that taste great together! Castle defense and rhythm games, in this case, cleverly combined in an indie game called, strikingly enough, Battle Beat. Use your already owned plastic instruments to defend your castle and win the respect of the in-game characters. It’s games like...

Tweet Game: DJ Hero Publisher: Activision Platform: PS3, Wii, X360, PS2 Cost: $120/$200 Pros: Great music mixes, fun game play, a new twist to the music game genre, very addictive Cons: Limited audience, small feature set, another rhythm game Acquired via retail purchase DJ Hero is a work of musical art. ...

Tweet Game: Guitar Hero: Smash Hits Platform: 360, PS3, Wii, PS2 Developer: Activision Price: $59.99 Pros: Fixes niggling issues from earlier versions, all your favorite songs Cons: We’ve heard these songs before Harmonix… November 2005… Guitar Hero. The first game that had the musically...

Tweet Dance-Off. Battle Game. If ever there were two words that went together, these are not them. Now add a third: RPG. Confused? So was I when I received this little gem in the mail the other day. Some would call this a bold attempt to build an RPG from atypical elements, including rhythm-based gameplay,...

Tweet Welcome back! Now that we’ve spoken a bit about The Music of Rock Band 2, we’ll focus next on the Instruments. We don’t literally mean the hardware, but rather the charts, modes, and features that have changed (or not) since the first game. Here’s the breakdown. Guitar: Admit...

Tweet Here at GamesAreEvil, we want to give monumental attention to monumental games. We got a bit carried away writing about Rock Band 2 (once we were able to stop playing it for 30 minutes). Thus, we’ve taken the liberty of splitting it up in digestible pieces; “The Music,” “The...