Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have announced that The Beatles likeness and music will be featured in a new videogame by the makers of "Rock Band".
Full details are yet to be released about the game, but considering the funnest thing about Rock Band and Guitar Hero is playing lightning fast metal solos, the 2 and a half minute back catalogue of The Beatles could prove a little vanilla. Though chugging through 'Revolution 9' could be suitably impossible. Perhaps that's what the game's maker MTV Games were alluding too when they said it will be "an unprecedented, experiential progression through" the band's music. Reports that the console will emit puffs of marijuana smoke intermittently into the players nostrils have been entirely made up by me.
"The project is a fun idea which broadens the appeal of The Beatles and their music," Sir Paul McCartney said in a release. "I like people having the opportunity to get to know the music from the inside out."
The game will mark the first time the iconic band's music is featured in a videogame. McCartney and Starr both had input into the game as did Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono, the widows of George Harrison and John Lennon. While latter is already plotting the break up of the game, Ringo Starr is excited about the development.
"The Beatles continue to evolve with the passing of time and how wonderful that The Beatles' legacy will find its natural progression into the 21st century through the computerised world we live in," said Ringo Starr.
The videogame is the band's long-awaited debut in the internet age because the surviving Beatles and their multimedia company have long resisted selling their music online in digital formats out of piracy concerns.
"This game will be a celebration of the Beatles' undeniable legacy," said game developer Harmonix chief executive Alex Rigopulos.
"By presenting their music and artistry through the creative filter of a groundbreaking videogame, we are giving legions of fans and music lovers all over the world a profound, new way to experience The Beatles."
By mashing buttons on a stick. He didn't add.
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(Original Source: AFP)