14 DAY TRIAL // The music game genre has seen a massive popularity and sales boom recently, as people are becoming more and more attracted to the fact that they can play their favorite songs, together with their family and friends and envision themselves on the stages of the most famous concert halls of the world. As such, the music game developers and publishers are bent on promoting their titles across all platforms and ensuring as big a profit as possible.
Such is the case with Harmonix and MTV Games, the developer and respectively publisher of the very popular Rock Band game. The two companies have recently released the sequel of the game for the Nintendo Wii, just before the Christmas period and tried to attract players with the fact that they can download 20 free songs that would couple with the standard tracklist of the game. Furthermore, they will have the same online music store, similar to the ones found on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the title.
Now it seems that the store has finally gone up and rockers across the world who bought the Wii version can start buying songs at the online store. All of the tracks are currently priced at 200 Wii Points, and the first 30 songs have already gone live. Also, the 20 free songs that can be downloaded by anyone are now also available. Here's the complete tracklist, as found on Videogamer:
The 30 downloadable tracks available for purchase:
30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill All-American Rejects - Move Along Avenged Sevenfold - Afterlife Black Tide - Shockwave Blink-182 - All the Small Things Blondie - Call Me Boston - More Than a Feeling Boston - Rock & Roll Band Disturbed - Inside the Fire Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race Jimmy Buffett - Cheeseburger in Paradise Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man Metallica - And Justice For All Motley Crue - Saints of Los Angeles Muse - Hysteria Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug Oasis - Wonderwall Papa Roach - Time is Running Out Paramore - Crushcrushcrush Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow ( Hey Oh ) Rush - Working Man (vault edition) Serj Tankian - Beethoven's C*** Smashing Pumpkins - Zero Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing The Offspring - Hammerhead The Police - Message in a Bottle The Who - Baba O'Riley Weezer - Buddy Holly Weezer - El Scorcho
These are the 20 songs that can be downloaded for free:
The 88 - Sons & Daughters Authority Zero - No Regrets Between the Buried & Me - Prequel to the Sequel Cab - The Bounce The Chevelles - Get It On The Cocktail Slippers - Give it to Me Dealership - Database Corrupted Endeverafter - I Wanna Be Your Man Ghost Hounds - Ashes to Fire Hollywood Undead - Young Kutless - The Feeling The Len Price 3 - If I Ain't Got You Lesley Roy - I'm Gone I'm Going Opiate for the Masses - Burn You Down Semi-Precious Weapons - Magnetic Baby Shaimus - Like a Fool thenewno2 - Crazy Tuesday Tickle Me Pink - The Time is Wrong Underoath - Desperate Times, Desperate Measures X Japan – I.V.
Harmonix also mentioned that Wii rockers would need to check the store quite frequently as more and more songs would be added, thus achieving the current 500 tracks available for purchase at the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 stores. It definitely looks like gamers who purchased Rock Band 2 for the Wii will be in for some very entertaining experiences.