(Credit: Gamespot AU)
Rock Band, the Harmonix-developed rhythm game that features guitar, drums and vocals has had a well-documented rough trip to reach retail shelves in Australia. The recent news that Activision had priced and dated Guitar Hero: World Tour for our local market made it look as if Guitar Hero would be the first full band game to go on sale down under.
But EA hits back today announcing Rock Band will be available from 7 November on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii platforms in Australia. The product will be sold in multiple configurations on all platforms with the complete hardware bundle including software costing AU$249.99. A hardware-only bundle consisting of one guitar, microphone and drum kit will carry a AU$199.99 price tag and stand-alone drum kits and guitars will retail for AU$129.99 and AU$89.99 respectively.
An EA spokesperson was unavailable at the time of posting to comment on the availability and pricing of Rock Band downloadable content for Australia or an estimated time frame for the launch of the game's sequel, Rock Band 2, which has already been released in the US.
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Kev
22/09/2008 06:20 PM
Well at least they're not hammering consumers too much on the price, however are the instruments compatible with rock band 2, or when rock band 2 finally hits Australia (another year maybe?), do we have to buy all new instruments?
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