Ever since mobile phones became the popular personal item they are today, users have integrated them into their lives along with many other tech items that have become indispensable. As such, the mobile phones have become vital sources of entertainment and enjoyment, as well as central in reflecting their users’ tastes and personalities. This extends to tastes in movies, popular Hollywood icons, and music artists. The music industry has in fact always been an ideal partner for the mobile content industry, with the former providing the latter with a near-limitless font of material for promotion and use as well as continually shifting and changing material for entertainment and enjoyment.
Apple has been leading the charge in making music available on mobiles for the last few years, ever since its popular iPod and the trusty, ever-evolving mobile phone were merged to form the intensely popular iPhone. Its sharp-resolution touch screen, colorful and catchy user-friendly interface, and solid sound quality have put it head and shoulders above most other smartphones and indeed most other mobiles in general. Unifying the call-and-text capabilities of a regular phone with the music storage and playing capabilities of the iPod, the iPhone goes one step further by adding applications and games that have added a new layer of entertainment to a platform that used to only support banal chess and golf games.
One such new gaming application is the wildly popular Rock Band. The best-selling video game allows you to put yourself in the shoes of a lead singer, drummer, bass guitarist or lead guitarist with the use of a four-button pattern playing system, and has taken off well on every platform it’s been on. In roughly two years since its original release the Harmonix-developed, MTV Games-published and EA-distributed game has proven immensely popular by allowing aspiring music enthusiasts to pretend to play iconic songs. Now this game has been brought to the iPhone app store for interested iPhone users to acquire at $9.99.
Featuring a multi-player mode enabled by Bluetooth, Rock Band for the iPhone lets 4 players rock it out alongside each other. Single-player mode is the default setting, of course, but a user can also use the integrated Facebook Connect app to invite friends to be part of the musical action. The familiar vocals, drums, bass, and lead guitar positions remain in place, and the controls involve tapping the iPhone screen to match up with the timing called for by the notes (vocals are also performed through tapping). The iPhone edition features 20 iconic and rocking songs, and premium content can be purchased through an in-game store app.
The 20 songs available by default run the gamut from the classic “Sabotage” (Beastie Boys) to the more recent “Learn to Fly” and “Everlong”, both Foo Fighters hits. The diverse playlist also includes “Attacl” (0 Seconds to Mars), “Girl’s Not Grey”, (AFI), “Move Along” (All-American Rejects), “All the Small Things” (Blnk 182), “Hanging on the Telephone” (Blondie), “Bad to the Bone” (George Thorogood & the Destroyers,), “Hymn 43″ (Jethro Tull), “Bad Reputation” (Joan Jett), “Simple Man” (Lynyrd Skynyrd ),, “Ace of Spades ‘08″ (Motörhead), “Debaser” (Pixies), “Ladybug”, (Presidents of the United States of America), “Lazy Eye” (Silversun Pickups), “Cherub Rock” (Smashing Pumpkins), “Take the Money and Run” (Steve Miller Band), and “We Got the Beat” (The Go-Go’s).
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