Rocking Out

I have just been playing the Green Day: Rock Band demo and have to say i'm loving it. The demo only features 2 songs (Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Welcome To Paradise) but manages to keep the size down to about 300 meg. While 2 songs may seem a bit lacking, between the two the demo manages to demonstrate two of the three venues (The Warehouse and Milton Keynes), both ends of the difficulty spectrum (Boulevard being a beginner song and Paradise being for advanced players) and two very different era's of the band. Gameplay is exactly what you'd expect from a rock band game and the demo allows you to play any instrument. When the full game hits shelves it will feature 47 tracks including every song from American Idiot, Dookie and 21st Century Breakdown (although Breakdown requires 6 songs to be purchased separately as DLC) as well as selected songs from Nimrod, Insomniac and Warning. The splash screen when you exit the demo also adds that for a fee you can import all of the Green Day songs into standard Rock Band so they can be played on either disc (although presumably without the band / venues). The Green Day: Rock Band demo is available now via Xbox LIVE and the Playstation Network and requires instruments (both Rock Band and/or Guitar Hero instruments will work).