Rock of the Dead (2010) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Rock of the Dead

Grab your guitar and get your drums! The planet is under attack, and the only chance we have is through the power of rock! Rock of the Dead lets you use your guitar and drum controllers to annihilate aliens…

50 19 October 2010

What Rock of the Dead is

Rock of the Dead is a music game developed by Epicenter Studios and released in 2010. It was published by Conspiracy Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Grab your guitar and get your drums! The planet is under attack, and the only chance we have is through the power of rock! Rock of the Dead lets you use your guitar and drum controllers to annihilate aliens, squash mutated insects and smash up the undead zombie hordes. Grab a buddy and play through the story-based campaign in two-player competitive co-op with guitars, drums or both! Rock out to a soundtrack featuring metalized versions of Bach, Brahms and other classical pieces as well as Rob Zombie and White Zombie hard-hitting tracks. With a cast of characters voiced by Neil Patrick Harris, Felicia Day and Rob Zombie, huge boss battles and dozens of unlockables and upgradeable special…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are comedy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.

How it was received

Rock of the Dead holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 9% of the 484 rated music games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Rock of the Dead launched on 19 October 2010, within three weeks of Fallout: New Vegas, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Super Meat Boy and Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fallout: New Vegas, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Super Meat Boy, Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition.

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