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IGN has an awesome new interview with Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos about his company's upcoming Guitar Hero crusher Rock Band. Normally, I'm not the one to call for the total destruction of an existing popular franchise, but if Rigopulos and his team can pull off what Rock Band promises, Guitar Hero will seem like kind of a neat novelty. We'll look back on it and think "Aw, cute. How much simpler we were then."
So what could potentially make Rock Band the uber-music game? Harmonix are not only ambitiously planning for hundreds of downloadable songs and hope to include MIDI support for electronic drum kits, they're "actively considering the possibility" of eventually creating tools to allow gamers to import user-created music into the game. Since Rigopulos is very cautious about that, admitting that it won't make it in Rock Band "out of the gate" I'll just pray they pull it off.
IGN has the full interview and first screenshots at the link below. Go. Now.
Rock Band Blowout [IGN]
