Beatles Rock Band is impressive…

…even to a jagged Beatles hater such as myself.

Originally I felt this was going to be another cash cow for the remaining two and the other two’s estates as it was for Metallica and Aerosmith (they made more money from their GH franchises than their previous couple records for obvious reasons, they sucked). Then I saw this trailer on the Nintendo Channel because E3 was last week. I really enjoyed the animation, transitions and great use of color. Harmonix better implement these improvements into the future of the regular title because I’ve already seen all the moves offered in RB2. I do not feel the Beatles necessarily deserve such special, exclusive treatment.

Now the opening title sequence is odd yet memorable. It starts out like the movies they did in the early-mid Sixties and evolves into a hybrid of Yellow Submarine Meets The Return of the King. All they needed was Ringo shouting, “let’s destroy Minas Tirith!”

Does this mean EA-MTV-Harmonix have convinced me to buy the game despite my feelings that the Beatles are (over)venerated as the Second Coming of Pop music? I’ll say they’ve moved me from “no” to “maybe.” I would only be 100-percent sold on this if the material can be exported into my PS3’s hard drive so it can be mixed into the catalog I already paid for, thus I won’t have to juggle DVDs as GH 2, 3 & 80s required. Knowing how greedy and litigious The Beatles, Inc. are, probably not. Eventually MadCatz will manufacture the wireless bass controller I need so I won’t have to shell out $250. Still, these two videos are cool usage of the current technologies in video games.