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Bust out the low-slung bass as well as the thick black eyeliner, because Harmonix’s next rhythm game–Green Day: Rock Band–is due for release in a couple of months. The overall game, which follows the career with the seminal East Bay pop-punk band, is the latest band-centric release from Harmonix along with the first disc-based release through the music game behemoth since 2009′s The Beatles: Rock-band. Stepping to the shoes of Billie Joe, Mike, and Tre became an exciting experience, even as we found out when Harmonix dropped by earlier today having a work-in-progress build in the game.

Although the game will feature 47 tracks from your band’s entire career, the linchpins of the Green Day Rock-band game are three of its most well-known albums: American Idiot (2004), Twenty-first century Breakdown (2009), and 1994′s Dookie, which, as outlined by project lead Chris Foster, was probably the most requested Green Day album to look within the Rock Band series. Those three albums will be within their entirety hanging around, or a quantity of hits and deep cuts from your remainder of Green Day’s discography.

To date, six tracks from Twenty-first century Breakdown happen to be released as DLC for Rock Band. The rest of the 12 tracks will likely be around the Green Day: Rock-band disc, and if you’ve downloaded any of the six DLC tracks, they shall be automatically imported into your game as well as new venue visuals, full vocal harmonies, and mo-cap performances. Players are able to export the tunes from Green Day: Rock-band for use in other Rock Band games but should pay a fee ($10) for this.

American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown loom particularly large in Green Day’s history and amongst people: are concept albums of sorts, having a central narrative, and both are meant to be followed from beginning to end. Together with Dookie, Harmonix felt the two albums deserved their own showcases and, because of this, built the game’s three separate venues around each album. Songs from American Idiot occur in Milton Keynes’ National Bowl, the site in the band’s concert film Bullet in a very Bible. Songs from last year’s Twenty-first century Breakdown (plus the other songs hanging around) will require invest Oakland’s Fox Theatre. Finally, a far more intimate fictional locale, referred to as Warehouse, is employed to showcase Dookie.

Besides single- and multiplayer quick play, you can play within the game’s career mode. The game’s roster of songs is organized via set lists that come with the same learning curve from what you’ve arrived at expect in games like this–some in the sets are even organized thematically. There will also be challenges to play through, much like those based in the Beatles: Rock-band. Challenges incorporate playing a specific amount of songs and earning a cumulative star total towards the end, or playing one of the complete albums from start to finish (plus a similar star total). Beating challenges will unlock new content, such as archived band photos, video interviews, and rare concert footage.

Harmonix producers told us how the difficulty from the challenges in Green Day: Rockband are actually objective from those found in The Beatles: Rock-band, if only how the star totals you should earn are slightly lessened. The action utilizes the two- and three-part harmonies which were first based in the Beatles game, including for Green Day DLC songs you import in the game. The band’s chunky rhythms and poppy tunes create a fun experience on the instruments and also singing–highlights from my time with the game included the mid-tempo melody of “When I Come Around” as well as the frenetic anthem “East Jesus Nowhere.” That’s only a sliver of Green Day’s huge songbook too, which bodes well for Green Day fans aiming to experience at least hardly any what it’s love to be one of many 21st century’s biggest bands. Green Day: Rock-band arrives for release on June 8.