Rock Band Still Has a Lot of Innovation to Do

The developers of the Rock Band franchise at the Harmonix studio have said that, even after the launch of the upcoming Rock Band 3, the series still has plenty of innovation options and that the team will be working hard to make the music simulation title as close to real life as possible while also keeping the fun quotient up.

Alex Rigopulos, who is the Chief Executive Officer at the Harmonix studios, has told Edge that, “There’s a lot of creative terrain to explore with Rock Band: new forms of interaction between the player and the music. We still have some very exciting things planned.”

The CEO also says that less known franchises like Frequency and Amplitude might get some attention in the near future.

Rigopulos added, “We loved those games and of course have been focused on other areas in recent years. Rock Band’s been focused on rock music, Dance Central has the luxury of focusing on all kinds of other music, but in terms of rhythm-action-type games focused on electronica, that’s something we’d love to come back to at the right moment in time.”

But the team is also exploring the possibility of creating a completely new franchise linked to another style of music, which might mean that Activision's DJ Hero might soon have a competitor.

Rock Band 3 will enhance the simulation experience with full support for keyboard playing in all the songs and will deliver more complex Pro modes, allowing gamers to feel like they are playing a real instrument.

Harmonix is also working on Dance Central, a title for the Kinect motion tracking system from Microsoft for the Xbox 360.

Until any new title comes out Harmonix and MTV Games are set to deliver Rock Band 3 on the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360, the Nintendo Wii and the DS line up on October 26 in the United States and the customary three days later in Europe.