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Battle of the Bands wii Game Reviews
Battle of the Bands
Critic Score
Metascore: 61 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.0 out of 10
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Enter into the world of musical combat where your rhythmic skills and weaponized instruments are your tools for domination. Welcome to the Battle of the Bands. 5 music genres: Rock, Country, Marching Band, Hip Hop and Ranchero. 11 unique style bands. 30 licensed tracks (each in 5 genres totaling 150 songs). 70 special weapons and attacks/ In each game, a song will be played in one genre for about 10 to 15 seconds and then another, flipping back and forth. Points are earned by beat-matching, and successive matches will automatically launch weapons such as smoke bombs, land mines and flip outs. The more points earned, the more the music will be played in the player’s genre. Battle of the Bands: Prove your favorite music genre is better than the opponents’. Weaponized Instruments: Battle to the top of the charts with an array of artillery and attack styles. Intense Rhythm Action: Feel the rhythm by swinging the Wii-mote in sync with different music melodies. Innovative Music Switching: Explore chart-toppers mashing up in different genres. Versus mode: Heads-on battles perfect for social and party game setting. Adventure mode: Compete with bands of other genres one by one all the way to the Big Boss battle. Music player: Blast out all 150 songs. [THQ]

PUBLISHER: THQ
DEVELOPER: Planet Moon Studios
GENRE(S): Music
PLAYERS: 2
ESRB RATING: T (Teen)
RELEASE DATE: April 21, 2008

What The Critics Said

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80
GamePro
It's a fun little title that will prove especially pleasing to those who can't wrap their heads around Rock Band or Guitar Hero. It doesn't have the addictive staying power of those two heavyweight franchises but it's an accessible rhythm game that's perfect for the casual gamer and younger rock-god wannabes alike.
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75
DailyGame
Battle of the Bands may have some technical issues, but they seldom get in the way of having fun or interfere with the creativity of the musical premise itself.
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73
GamingTrend
Battle of the Bands is good. It could have been better in a few ways: better quality sound, custom instruments in-game and out, and a little bit more flow in the beat timing.
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70
Nintendo Power
Offering a clever new take on the rhythm genre, Battle of the Bands is probably best described as a musical tug-of-war. [May 2008, p.87]
70
Gamers' Temple
It's an interesting novelty of a game that is best enjoyed occasionally at parties rather than as a Guitar Hero alternative.
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70
GameTap
Battle of the Bands is pretty fun, and it’s definitely a cheaper option in the whole music game fad than the peripheral-laden titles out there, but there’s just not a lot of depth there.
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68
AtomicGamer
I don't think that the plan to make this a full-priced Wii game was bad, as the musical selection is ambitious, but in the final product the implementation of such simplistic Wii controls just don't work and really drag the fun factor down.
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67
1UP
As a casual rhythm game, Battle of the Bands gets big points for charm and humor, and the intended audience is sure to appreciate the ability to actually play this without too much difficulty. Guitar heroes looking for their next challenging digital wankery, however, are advised to move along. This one's just for laughs.
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60
Game Informer
I haven’t laughed this much while playing a game since I was making fun of "Donkey Kong Barrel Blast," but Battle of the Bands’ one great idea would have benefited from some more robust gameplay.
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60
GameSpot
Battle of the Band's bizarre mashups are fun to listen to but not as much fun to play.
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56
IGN
I applaud developer Planet Moon for trying something fresh and original in the music game genre. But I have to give them a wag of the finger for treating the player like a child. Really, we can handle more than a few swings of the Wiimote.
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55
GameZone
This is a decent game idea that fails on several fronts. The gameplay is reflexive but the window to hit the notes is small and the frame rate stutters compound the difficulty of nailing the action.
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50
GameSpy
The novelty of the different musical styles just doesn't make up for the highly repetitive gameplay.
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50
Destructoid
The musical combat and genre hopping madness of Battle of the Bands showed so much promise, it's just disappointing that the gameplay is too shallow to hold up in the long-term.
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50
Games Radar
Charm can only go so far in interactive experiences, and in Battle of the Bands, it's not quite far enough.
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42
GameTrailers
THQ's Battle of the Bands doesn't look good, sound good, or feel good.
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42
Gaming Nexus
Battle of the Bands takes the best elements of some recent hits and tries to combine them into something new and fun. Unfortunately, it misses the mark.
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