Over the past few months, "Rock Band" has become one of the most popular games among casual and hardcore gamers alike. The game has an interface that is easy on the eyes and in my opinion is far better than "Guitar Hero". Having the Drums, Singing, Bass and Guitar makes it easy to involve everyone. However, the game is still missing something....
After bringing my Xbox360 and "Rock Band" home for my parents to play, I received the most interesting response; they loved it. Not because of the graphics or the UI or any other small detail our generation would look at; but because of the general idea. The game is, in its own way, educational. The microphone teaches vocal skills as well as the proper lyrics to the song (did anybody know that was really what they said in "Dani California"?). The drums obviously teach rhythm, and are actually just the basic practice pad any parent would buy their children to put ease on their ears until their child got better. And then the guitar... no, it's nothing like the actual guitar; but it has the same idea and teaches the player what hand-eye coordination really is.
However great this game seems, have you ever wondered what happened to the keyboard in all of these songs? Half the songs have a completely empty solo for the keyboard; but there is nobody to play it. So instead we all sit there and watch our screens flow blankly across the screen. Wouldn't it be nice if Harmonix Music Systems would stop fooling around and create the game we all want? It wouldn't have to be a full size keyboard, but having something that could eventually teach children how to play piano or even the basics of what a keyboard is could be an incredible advance to modern video games.
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