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Rock Band 4 reveals 10 new songs as pre-orders open at retail

Rock Band 4 has revealed another handful of songs as pre-orders open at retailers. Xbox One owners, you may need to open your wallets a little more for this one.

Ozzie Mejia

August 24, 2015 9:25 AM

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Harmonix has announced that retailer pre-orders for Rock Band 4 are now open. The music series' revival previously opened pre-orders on digital storefronts, but it's now available to those that would rather get it through a more traditional format. To celebrate, another ten tracks have been unveiled.

The latest ten tracks to join Rock Band 4 are:

• .38 Special – "Caught Up In You"
• Arctic Monkeys – "Arabella"
• The Both – "Milwaukee"
• Cake – "Short Skirt/Long Jacket"
• Little Big Town – "Little White Church"
• Lucius – "Turn It Around"
• The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – "The Impression That I Get"
• The Protomen – "Light Up The Night"
• Soundgarden – "Superunknown"
• Tijuana Sweetheart – "Pistol Whipped"

Here's the part that Rock Band users may want to pay attention to and that involves backwards compatability with last-gen hardware. While it appears that Rock Band 4 will support instruments from previous generations, it looks like the Xbox One version of the game will require an extra piece of hardware called the Legacy Controller Adapter. This will up the total package on Xbox One to $79.99. The PlayStation 4 will not need any such adapter, so players can pick up the base game for $59.99 and use most of their PS3 instruments without any additional adapters.

Our own John Gaudiosi also recently had the opportunity to talk to Rock Band 4 producer Daniel Sussman a few weeks ago at Gamescom 2015. You can check that interview out below.

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?