Guitar Hero vs. Rock Band: Beatles Rock Band!

Guitar Hero vs. Rock Band: Beatles Rock Band!

Be the Beatles!

The details for the new "Beatles Rock Band" game were revealed last week at the E3 videogame conference in Los Angeles. The game is going to be released Sept. 9 (you know, 9/9/09) and it looks completely amazing. At the conference, Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr revealed 10 of the 45 songs that are going to be included in the game. The tracks are "I Saw Her Standing There," "I Want To Hold Your Hand," "I Feel Fine," "Taxman," "Day Tripper," "Back In The USSR," "I Am The Walrus," "Octopus's Garden," "Here Comes The Sun" and "Get Back." I can't wait to pretend to play that awesome riff from "Taxman." Even better, according to Billboard "they said the entire "Abbey Road" album will be available for purchase and download, as will other tracks from the band's catalog, after the game's release, and "All You Need Is Love" will be released exclusively for Xbox 360 users as a downloadable song the day the game hits retail shelves. The proceeds of the single will be donated to Doctors Without Boarders."

It really seems like they thought of everything. They allowed for three-part vocal harmonies and included previously unreleased recordings of the bandmates talking between takes during studio sessions recorded at Abbey Road.

Even the different venues that the Beatles played at will be featured in the game, including the Cavern Club in Liverpool, the Ed Sullivan Show, Shea Stadium, the Budokan in Japan, and the famous rooftop. In between that last one, while the Beatles were just a studio band for a while, the game features "artistic visual expressions known as Dreamscapes, intended to transport players to the imaginative environments that capture the essence of The Beatles' genre-busting musical and fashion transformations during their later years," according to the release. Sounds amazing!