The LEGO brand of video game adaptation has been quite successful at getting parents and kids together playing the same game.  Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Batman, and soon Harry Potter are all franchises that manage to translate well to the LEGO style.  The latest game in this series isn’t based off of a movie or book franchise, but another game franchise: Rock Band.  How exactly will this work?  Well on the surface LEGO Rock Band is fairly simple.  It’s essentially the same Rock Band experience that everyone has come to know and love, only with LEGO characters dropped in.

There are two key things that LEGO Rock Band allows you to do, and that is construct your own Band members and vehicles, as well as deconstruct various venues by playing well in them.  This mode is called the Rock Power Challenge and it involves each band member playing a section of song successfully.  The better they do the more crazy action happens in the background.  After each song you’ll earn a certain number of LEGO studs which you can use to build your own vehicles to take you from arena to arena.  It seems simple enough, but it does manage to cover all of the basic LEGO bases.

LEGO Rock Band will allow for four players to play at the same time, anything less and it would not be a full Rock Band experience.  To help get newer players into the game the developers have added a new Super Easy difficulty.  This new difficulty not only has No Fail on by default, but it only requires the player to strum or hit the drum pads in time with the music.  Fret buttons aren’t necessary on this difficulty level, nor does it matter which drum pad you hit.  As long as you’re in time, it’ll be fine.  Something like this should be just what is needed to help younger kids or novices to the rhythm action genre get into the game.

The song selection will be as varied as it was in Rock Band 2.  Songs will span various decades and incorporate classics like Europe’s The Final Countdown, Pink’s So What, Blur’s Song 2, and many others.  All of the songs will be family friendly in keeping with the LEGO theme.  Harmonix has not yet announced whether there will be downloadable content for LEGO Rock Band or if the songs on the disc will be exportable to your current Rock Band 2 library, but it’s safe to assume at least one of those things will be true.

Lego Rock Band is scheduled for a Holiday 2009 release and will be available for the Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, and Nintendo DS.  We’ll have a review around the time of the game’s launch.

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