Want to learn to drum like Ringo? How about spreading some Christmas cheer with the lads?
We're getting closer and closer to the September 9 release date of The Beatles: Rock Band, and Harmonix is letting us spill a few more details about the game today. Wired.com recently got to experience some of the game's new modes, including the drum trainer -- now rechristened "Beatles Beats" -- and the rewards you'll get for playing the game's 45 different on-disc songs.
For scoring well on songs, you'll unlock all kinds of bonuses. Each song has two photographs pulled from the Beatles' archive, some of which have never been seen before. Harmonix showed us one that depicts the group getting their very first "mop-top" haircuts. Paul McCartney, Harmonix said, sat down for eight hours with the game's head writer to fact-check and add color to the lengthy descriptive captions that accompany each image.
There are even better rewards. For one, you can unlock the Beatles' first Christmas album, a short 45 RPM record that they mailed out to members of their fan club. It features the band clowning around, telling jokes, singing songs like "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Ringo." As you're listening to the recording, you'll see photographs and scans of the original packaging, etc.
The drum trainer mode includes the standard beats that the regular ol' vanilla Rock Band game teaches you, but it also includes beats made famous by Ringo Starr, in case you want to learn his often unique drum patterns in an environment set apart from the songs.
Image courtesy Harmonix
