Rock Band 2 DLC Arrives on Wii

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After promising an early 2009 arrival for Rock Band 2 downloadable content on Wii, developer Harmonix today began offering downloadable tunes for the music game.

The first batch of offerings comprises 50 songs--20 free, 30 premium. Each premium track runs 200 Wii Points ($2). The catalog will be continually fleshed out to match the hundreds of songs already available on PS3 and Xbox 360, with the weekly future releases of DLC to begin arriving simultaneously on Wii in February.

The tracks are available via an in-game shop, similar to the PS3 and Xbox 360 releases.

A list of the tracks currently available on Wii follows below:

    Paid Songs - 200 Wii Points ($2)
    • 30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill
    • All-American Rejects - Move Along
    • Avenged Sevenfold - Afterlife
    • Black Tide - Shockwave
    • Blink-182 - All the Small Things
    • Blondie - Call Me
    • Boston - More Than a Feeling
    • Boston - Rock & Roll Band
    • Disturbed - Inside the Fire
    • Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race
    • Jimmy Buffett - Cheeseburger in Paradise
    • Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
    • Metallica - And Justice For All
    • Motley Crue - Saints of Los Angeles
    • Muse - Hysteria
    • Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug
    • Oasis - Wonderwall
    • Papa Roach - Time is Running Out
    • Paramore - Crushcrushcrush
    • Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (( Hey Oh ))
    • Rush - Working Man (Vault Edition)
    • Serj Tankian - Beethoven's C***
    • Smashing Pumpkins - Zero
    • Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song
    • Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing
    • The Offspring - Hammerhead
    • The Police - Message in a Bottle
    • The Who - Baba O'Riley
    • Weezer - Buddy Holly
    • Weezer - El Scorcho
    Free Tracks
    • The 88 - Sons & Daughters
    • Authority Zero - No Regrets
    • Between the Buried & Me - Prequel to the Sequel
    • The Cab - Bounce
    • The Chevelles - Get It On
    • The Cocktail Slippers - Give it to Me
    • Dealership - Database Corrupted
    • Endeverafter - I Wanna Be Your Man
    • Ghost Hounds - Ashes to Fire
    • Hollywood Undead - Young
    • Kutless - The Feeling
    • The Len Price 3 - If I Ain't Got You
    • Lesley Roy - I'm Gone I'm Going
    • Opiate for the Masses - Burn You Down
    • Semi-Precious Weapons - Magnetic Baby
    • Shaimus - Like a Fool
    • thenewno2 - Crazy Tuesday
    • Tickle Me Pink - The Time is Wrong
    • Underoath - Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
    • X Japan - I.V.

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

From The Chatty
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    January 13, 2009 2:14 PM

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      January 13, 2009 2:24 PM

      Erm, I think the PS3/360 still has better internet play than the Wii.

      However, I am a bit miffed that the Wii instruments are actually cheaper...

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      January 13, 2009 2:35 PM

      Well, seeing as how even just a few songs would probably take up a significant fraction of the Wii's memory, I think PS3 and 360 are still at a definite advantage.

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      January 13, 2009 2:38 PM

      Wii Rock Band or GH is still pretty lame. No Hard Drive, you need a remote for each instrument, the graphics are fugly. It works if all you have is a Wii, but the experience is still better on the other consoles.

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        January 13, 2009 2:42 PM

        Only Guitar Hero requires a Remote for each instrument. Rock Band's instruments are standalone, apart from the microphone, which requires a remote to navigate, much like how it requires a controller on other consoles. The GH mic is standalone too.

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        January 13, 2009 3:08 PM

        the hard drive is the only real shitty part about it now. i dont know anything about online MP though since i dont do this on xbox anyways

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        January 13, 2009 3:37 PM

        Actually, the graphics are pretty darn good in Rock Band 2. Not quite 360 quality, but monumentally better than say, Guitar Hero on the PS2.

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          January 13, 2009 8:46 PM

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            January 13, 2009 9:03 PM

            No. RB2 is on the fly like PS3 & 360

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          January 14, 2009 9:52 AM

          Yeah I couldn't care less about how shiny the background is when I'm playing a song. I own the 360 version, and played RB2 on my friend's Wii just fine.

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      January 13, 2009 3:42 PM

      lol, you are being sarcastic right? DLC takes up a lot of memory, and you can't tell me friend codes are as good as xbox live.

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      January 13, 2009 4:44 PM

      I've got about 6GB of just Rock Band DLC now.

      Do they even make SD cards that big?

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