5/19 DLC - Alice Cooper 6-pack & Taking Back Sunday 3-pack!

**machchunk** · Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Posts: 3829 Location: Pasco, WA

I'm saving myself the joy of seeing the Alice Cooper tracks until after school so I can sightread them. But from the reception I'm seeing so far, it was really as good as I predicted.
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**JLynn** · Joined: 01 Jul 2008 Posts: 302

Alice Cooper? Poison? Score!

*Runs off to the Marketplace*

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**Vendetta** · Joined: 22 Jan 2007 Posts: 384 Location: Northern Illinois

Beastly DLC for Wii.

Been wondering when they'd get some Taking Back Sunday into the game. I really gotta go buy those.

**swedenman** · Joined: 15 Jun 2008 Posts: 1688

Alice Cooper stuff is alright, and I expect the charts will be pretty fun. I've never heard anything by Taking Back Sunday, but from what I've heard, they aren't my type of band.
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**Adohu** · Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 1239

Might as well have a few quick reviews for the 6 Alice Cooper tracks and The Replacements on guitar.

I'd say Kids Don't Follow is basically an easy version of That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate. It's a high tempo song with what seems like crazy drums, and a moderate speed alt-strumming chart with gallops thrown around. I actually found this song to be really fun on guitar, which I wasn't expecting.

I'm Eighteen was pretty easy from what I remember. Unfortunately, it was a bit tough to hear guitar in certain parts, but that doesn't really matter. There is a pretty fucking big Big Rock Ending that netted me 25000 on it. Oh, and there is also some cool crowd singing in it. :)

Poison was a lot more fun than I expected. The first half is what you'd expect, and it starts getting awesome on the second solo. I sightread FCed the song, but solo 2 seems like a major choke spot. Fun song, pretty fun.

I love Billion Dollar Babies, and the live track was great. Again, some of the guitar was a bit hard to hear at points, but it was fine. The chart was enjoyable, nothing insane, but it was pretty tough. There's a fast RY trill about halfway through the song which is probably the hardest part, although I did get that sightread too, but it was probably a fluke.

Under My Wheels I'd say is the hardest guitar song of the pack, with some pretty damn fast zig-zags. Really fun song, with nothing boring in it. Really fun song.

Vengeance is Mine is basically an entire big solo. The first third of the song is simple. The second third gets a tad tougher, but still easy really. After the first solo, Slash goes crazy and the chart becomes a complete clusterfuck. Fast notes all over the place in weird rhythms reminiscent of Guitar Hero 3. Pretty tough, although I'd say it's behind Under My Wheels in difficulty. I dunno though. :P

School's Out. Did you expect this song to be final tier? Fuck no. Well, it is, and it is pretty damn tough. When you play the main riff, you expect it to be the normal boring riff like in GH3. But there's a twist, with a short HO/PO chord and single notes trill that appears every so often in the riff. It comes in two different patterns, one is slow, one is fast. The fast patterns of the HO/PO chord part broke my combo nearly every time. The chorus is probably the most epic thing that has ever appeared in this game, with incredible crows singing. It's amazing. There are also tiny fills during the chorus which are fun. The solo is pretty damn tough. The rest of the song is just the verse and epic chorus again, and then I think there's a tiny Big Rock Ending, but I'm not positive about that. Probably one of the coolest songs to ever play in Rock Band. Seriously.

Very surprised that more than one of these tracks were hard. I was only expecting to get Vengeance Is Mine. ^.^ Very happy with these results, and probably one of my favorite packs yet.

**akiro** · Joined: 07 Feb 2009 Posts: 37 Location: Lisboa, Portugal

School's Out and Vengeance is Mine are surprisingly awesome.
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**RockerChick** · Joined: 12 Sep 2006 Posts: 228

Every single Alice Cooper song was well worth the money. Playing School's Out really does feel the closest to actually performing live with a band that the game has ever had.

**005** · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 1283 Location: Dallas

Yeah, if you don't buy these Cooper tracks just because they're live, then you need to have your head examined. These are some really excellent tracks that are awesome for every instrument in Rock Band. Good work, Harmonix.

**Macaron11** · Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 10:57 pm Post subject:

Billion Dollar Babies is really fun on drums, minus the annoying as hell double kicks with rolls >_<
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