So, last week Harmonix officially announced Rock Band 2, the sequel to the super awesome band simulation game Rock Band. I was immediately excited to hear about this, I’ve spent a LOT of time playing Rock Band, and have downloaded a considerable amount of music for it as well. You can check out all the details from Harmonix's official announcement, but I'm going to give you a quick list of what I’m excited about in the upcoming release:

Backwards Compatibility
You will be able to use all the downloaded content from your original Rock Band, as well as import the music from the first game disc, giving you a HUGE library of music to play.

86 New Tracks + 20 Free Downloadable tracks
With the release of RB2 Harmonix will be releasing 20 extra songs online for free to download making the total number of songs, not including your old music from RB1, is 106. That's a LOT of music! Just using music as a factor alone you're paying roughly 60 cent's a song.

Instruments
They have learned from their mistakes and made adjustments to improve the instruments. The guitar fret buttons are less noisy, and the strum bar is less "Squishy". The drum pads are not much less noisy and a little bouncier, to improve stick action. They have also put expansion ports on the drum kit to allow a cymbal expansion kit to be added on to really give that rock star drummer feel.

I'm pretty excited for this game, The visuals don't seemed to have changed much, if at all. Which isn't a problem in my eyes. I'm hoping for some improvements to the online play for the PS3, better player searching and what not. I'd like to see duals available for more than just two people. Imagine having 4 drummers going at it at the same time! A battle mode would be cool as well. Some way to compete against somebody on a different instrument as well would be fun. We will just have to wait to see.

First off, I'd like to recomend this weekly podcast to anybody that is remotly interested in movies, video games, tv or comic books. They are hilarious and put together a very well done show. Ok, now on to the commentary.

This week on the show the guys covered the following things:

• Movies
  The Foot Fist Way
  Australia (trailer)
  
  
• Video Games
  Age of Conan
  Beyond Good & Evil 2 (Announcement)
  
  
• Special Segment
  TRS Gets Fit
  

This week, I didn't have a whole lot of interest in the topics they were planning on covering, but I watch it none the less, because they always have a very entertaining show. The intro was quite amusing, and fit the show since they reviews AoC.

The segment they did on the Wii was hilarious, watching them all razz each other while they play the various games that come along with the Wii Fit.

They gave a pretty positive review of AoC, and Dan seemed excited about Beyond Good & Evil 2

That's about all I have to say on the episode, yet it was very entertaining.

This week on the show the guys covered the following things:

• Movies
  Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  
  
• Video Games
  Haze
  Prince of Persia: Prodigy (Screen Shots)
  
  
• TV
  Top Gear
  Fringe (Trailer)
  Dollhouse (Trailer)

Their review of Indiana Jones is about what I expected to hear from them, i've heard mixed reviews and the way they had been pumping it up for themselves, I'm not surprised to hear that they didn't like it. They do reccommend it for watching as long as you fall into the "like the Indiana Jones saga" category, those that don't care, or love it - should avoid the movie.

They trashed Haze hardcore, saying it was "every other fps shooter rolled up into one." They also report that it was quite glitchy and buggy. Almost makes me want to hear Yahtzee review it.

The Prince of Persia screen shots look cool, I loved the origional 2D game. I also enjoyed Sands of Time even though it was a bit short, After that I haven't been very interested in the PoP games, maybe this one will bring me back?

Top Gear looks quite interesting, i've watched a few pieces of the show on Youtube, I should look into it. Dollhouse looks cool, and the fact that its another Joss Whedon creation makes me even more excited.

Since I watch The Totally Rad Show every week, and they do cover video games every week, i'll be reviewing my thoughts on each week's episodes of the show.

This week on the show the guys covered the following things:

• Movies
  The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
  City of Ember (trailer)
  
  
• Video Games
  Boom Blox
  Lost Winds
  

Their review of Naria is about what I expected from them, very similar to their thoughts on the first Narnia movie - though they thought it was better than the first. This makes me excited, as I enjoyed the first Narnia I'm expecting to enjoy this movie even more.

City of Ember sounds cool, I myself have not taken the time to watch the trailer for it, but what they said about it, and what was shown during the show; it sounds like it has potential to be pretty cool.

Since I no longer own a Wii neither of the games they reviewed actually applied to me, but they did enjoy both of them greatly. If I still had a Wii I would definitely be picking up Boom Blox, as it looked amazingly fun, and appears to be a good party game. Lost winds however didn't appear to look to fun to me, I didn't like the idea of having to use the Wii remote to make your character do stuff.