Battle of the Bands
Battle of the Bands is the ultimate music rhythm game exclusively on Wii. The story is set in a fictitious world gone mad, where bands battle for music supremacy using weaponized instruments. Featuring 30…
Battle of the Bands is a music developed by Planet Moon Studios, released 21 April 2008 on Wii.
What Battle of the Bands is
Battle of the Bands is a music game developed by Planet Moon Studios and released in 2008. It was published by THQ. It is available on Wii only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Battle of the Bands is the ultimate music rhythm game exclusively on Wii. The story is set in a fictitious world gone mad, where bands battle for music supremacy using weaponized instruments. Featuring 30 licensed tracks from today’s hottest bands that can each be played in 5 different music genres (Rock, Country, Marching Band, Hip Hop and Ranchero) with 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 quirky weapons such as smoke bomb, land mine and flip out. The more points earned, the more the music…
How it plays
Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO), Single player and Split screen.
How it was received
Battle of the Bands holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 484 rated music games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Battle of the Bands launched on 21 April 2008, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto IV, Valkyria Chronicles, Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition and Mario Kart Wii. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto IV, Valkyria Chronicles, Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition, Mario Kart Wii.
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