Electronic Arts, who currently have thirty three applications in the iTunes App Store, debuted their version of Rock Band ($9.99) today for anxious thumb-thrusting iPhone micro gamers. Although Rock Band has proved to be one of the most successful console video game franchises in recent years, iPhone users are sounding off with wildly mixed reviews. Some are not too impressed.
App Store reviews of the game are peppered with the obviously fabricated five star "Best iPhone Game Ever" brain farts. While other reviewers are focused on the expensive $10 price tag for only twenty tracks, laggy game play timing and claims that the tap-zones are way too small. Making game play for chubby thumbed users more of a challenge than the game itself.
Being compared to an established iPhone contender like TapTap Revenge 3, comfortably perched at number one in the App Store for $.99 cents, may force Rock Band to rethink their current overpriced strategy that under delivers for picky iPhone gamers. One user described the micro-version of Rock Band like this, "A Gateway drug for newbies, but it's far too easy for even the casual gamer."
Even the app review ninjas at Gizmodo.com offered up a thoughtfully neutral hands-on review of the game, promoting the joys of suffering hand cramps in their own headline.
"Rock Band suggests that you play with your thumbs on the bottom of the phone, supporting the weight of the phone by gripping it at the base. People with normal-sized hands will find the position cramp-inducing, but bearable." - Jason Chen writes for Gizmodo
Which loosely translated means, if you're a fan of rope burn or nipple twisters then you might find the tap-zones bearable. Not exactly a glowing endorsement from Gizmodo's editor. But who gives a flying iPhone fart about what everyone else is saying? Just fork over your ten bucks and then you would have paid the entrance fee to leave your own five star review in the App Store if you choose. But I'd be certain the price of admission is really worth the ride first? You can always wait until it goes on sale.
"Rock Band suggests that you play with your thumbs on the bottom of the phone, supporting the weight of the phone by gripping it at the base."
And this is different from Tap Tap Revenge... how?
If anything it is far easier to deploy Rock Band's overdrive (by quickly flipping the iPhone vertical) than to "shake" the iPhone to activate in TTR.
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