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Nice. Over priced pile of tat

Are all the instruments including the microphone wireless? If so, the cost might be justified and no more.

All of instruments bar the Guitar are wired, the rest plug into a usb hub. Guitar Hero IV will have the same 'band style' mulit-instruments but will be completley wireless. Personally, I'll save my money and buy the original and best. The reason it's all available seperatly is too make more money, not give people choice! F*** E.A.

Yeah, thanks Harmonix and EA for still not releasing the PS3 version until practically the 32nd of never. I bet you'll both be wondering why when you finally do release it in the UK (hello, you might have heard of little old us, we're the third largest gaming market after you and Japan, worth £2 Billion you know) hardly anyone will buy it. (psst. It's because we've already had to import it from America rather than wait a month for you to regionalize it by changing every instance of words such as color as favorite.)

The 360 guitar is actually wired like the rest of the kit, but you can use the guitar hero guitars with it, whereas the PS3 version has the wireless guitar but incompatibility with guitar hero guitars.I've played the PS3 one and i really don't like the new guitar and i'd prefer to stick to my GH3 gibson. On the plus side, you can use the 360 headset to sing into apparently so you can play an instrument and sing at the same time without having to balance the mic on the arm of your sofa while sitting on the floor! Can't do voice chat on PS3 Rock Band anyway so it kinda sucks. I'll be buying it when it comes out even if we are being screwed over the price again. I could probably get a hold of a US 360 and Rock Band for the same price as getting the game alone here. I could cope with a delay, but a rip off is something that is beginning to grate on me to the extent where i'm not buying new games anymore. I'll buy it preowned and then the developers and publishers have a hissy fit about the state of the market. UK gamers always get ripped off over prices and delays yet the preowned business is booming at the disgust of dev teams and publishers and piracy is increasing, can you blame us? You can't have your cake and eat it, so get your fingers out and start giving a damn about us gamers, we're your bread and butter!

The headline of this flash should have been:

'Rock Band's UK release gets hefty price tag'

What a joke........

Quick question here... why has nobody looked into the game enough to realise that EA are not the publishers of ROCKBAND and that all they are doing is distributing it. MTV are calling all the shots and anyone that's done their research would realise this.

You can use the PS2 GH guitars with the PS3 Rock Band anyway, which suits me fine. It sounds ridiculous that you can't use a GH3 Gibson though, but only as ridiculous as the fact you can't use PS2 GH guitars with GH3, even if you have a USB adapter. I don't think I'll mind not being able to use a wireless GH3 Gibson as they're not as good as the old wired ones for actually hitting all the notes anyway.

Ratty1009 - You're right, I didn't mention MTV, but I don't really see it as their problem. EA are distributing it, or rather they're responsible for not distributing it over here, hence why I'm directing my bile towards them, for being the champions of game delaying (I think I'll actually make them a crown if they surpass a year between the US and UK PS3 release dates).