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Rock Band Special Value Edition includes a Rock Band Guitar, Rock Band Drum Kit, Microphone, Guitar Strap and The Beatles: Rock Band software. The Beatles: Rock Band gives fans what they've been waiting for: a chance to experience the Beatles' legendary story from the inside. You won't just watch and listen as the Beatles make rock history, create landmark records and conquer the world-for the first time, you'll be part of the band. The Beatles software is compatible with all Rock Band and most Guitar Hero and other instrument controllers, as well as third party microphones including SingStar and Lips. 45 legendary songs, including "I Saw Her Standing There", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "I Feel Fine", "Day Tripper", "Taxman", "I Am the Walrus", "Back in the U.S.S.R.", "Octopus's Garden", "Here Comes the Sun", and "Get Back". Additional songs will be available for download through The Beatles: Rock Band music store.
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table border="0" tbody tr tda name="product_description" emThe Beatles: Rock Band Special Value Edition/em gives fans on Xbox 360 what they've been waiting for: the ability to experience The Beatles' legendary story from the inside, at a price that any gamer can afford. Consisting of a copy of emThe Beatles: Rock Band/em, bundled with the full standard set of emRock Band/em instrument controllers, players don't just watch and listen as Fab Four make rock history, create landmark records and conquer the world-for the first time, you'll be part of the band. Game software is compatible with emGuitar Hero/em and most other instrument controllers for Xbox 360, as well as third party microphones including emSingStar/em and emLips/em, making the addition of an optional additional controller simple. style type="text/css" .caption { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } ul.indent { list-style: inside disc; text-indent: -15px; } table.callout { font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1. 3em; } td.vgoverview { height: 125px; background: #9DC4D8 url(http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/callout-bg.png) repeat-x; border-left: 1px solid #999999; border-right: 1px solid #999999; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 250px; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; } /style p table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="210" tbody tr td height="37"img alt="The Beatles: Rock Band Special Value Edition game logo" height="56" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/beatles.rb.sve.200.jpg" title="The Beatles: Rock Band Special Value Edition game logo" width="200" /br / smallcenterstrongem/em/strong/center/small/td /tr /tbody /table table align="right" cellpadding="10" width="250" tbody tr td height="194"img align="top" alt="Rock Band style play across all eras of The Beatles' career in The Beatles: Rock Band" border="0" height="141" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/beatles-rb.ng.01.sm.jpg" title="Rock Band style play across all eras of The Beatles' career in The Beatles: Rock Band" width="250" /br / center span class="caption"Play across all band eras.br / View larger./span /center/td /tr tr td height="204"img align="top" alt="The Ed Sullivan Show gameplay venue from The Beatles: Rock Band" border="0" height="141" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/beatles-rb.ng.02.sm.jpg" title="The Ed Sullivan Show gameplay venue from The Beatles: Rock Band" width="250" /br / center span class="caption"A variety of play venues.br / View larger./span /center/td /tr tr td height="194"img align="top" alt="Paul and George working a harmony in The Beatles: Rock Band" border="0" height="141" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/beatles-rb.ng.03.sm.jpg" title="Paul and George working a harmony in The Beatles: Rock Band" width="250" /br / center span class="caption"Master classic Beatles harmonies.br / View larger./span /center/td /tr tr td height="194"img align="top" alt="Standard Rock Band instrument controllers" border="0" height="191" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/beatles.rb.sve.01.sm.jpg" title="Standard Rock Band instrument controllers" width="250" /br / center span class="caption"Standard Rock Band controller set.br / View larger./span /center/td /tr /tbody /table strongThe Game/strongbr / Join John, Paul, George and Ringo on-stage at legendary shows, behind closed doors in the recording studio, and in dreamscapes that bring the psychedelic imagery of the latter stage of their career to life. The acclaimed emRock Band/em elements of interactive play and full-band capacity are here as well, but with brand-new additions. One of these is full three-part harmonies, which challenge you to recreate The Beatles’ vocal blend — a first for any music game and facilitated by the game's support for up to three microphone controllers. In addition, the game supports custom-built controllers modeled after the actual instruments that the Fab Four played, and eventually helped to make iconic, audio straight from the masters and graphics that take you on a magical tour through the key moments in The Beatles history. Produced with the full cooperation of The Beatles and Apple Corps, the game is packed with hidden fab extras that will push you and up to five of your friends to master the songs both online and offline in order to hear rare audio and view unseen photos from the archives./p pstrongThe Song List/strongbr / The Beatles were one of the most prolific bands of all time, churning out memorable hit after hit and this reflected in the song list of emThe Beatles: Rock Band/em. From "I Want to Hold Your Hand" to "Get Back," every song in emThe Beatles: Rock Band/em comes directly from the Abbey Road master tapes. More than 40 songs are included with the game, spanning the length of The Beatles’ career, with more to follow via download on Xbox LIVE Marketplace. The full list of hits supplied with the game disc include:/p p table border="0" cellpadding="0" tbody tr valign="top" td ul liI Saw Her Standing There/li liBoys/li liDo You Want To Know A Secret/li liTwist And Shout/li liI Wanna Be Your Man/li liI Want to Hold Your Hand/li liA Hard Day’s Night/li liCan’t Buy Me Love/li liI Feel Fine/li liEight Days A Week/li liTicket To Ride/li liDay Tripper/li liDrive My Car/li liI’m Looking Through You/li liIf I Needed Someone/li liPaperback Writer/li liTaxman/li liYellow Submarine/li liAnd Your Bird Can Sing/li liSgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band/li liWith a Little Help from My Friends/li liLucy in the Sky with Diamonds/li liGetting Better/li /ul /td td ul liGood Morning Good Morning/li liI Am The Walrus/li liHello Goodbye/li liRevolution/li liBack In The USSR/li liDear Prudence/li liWhile My Guitar Gently Weeps/li liBirthday/li liHelter Skelter/li liHey Bulldog/li liDon’t Let Me Down/li liCome Together/li liSomething/li liOctopus’s Garden/li liI Want You (She’s So Heavy)/li liHere Comes The Sun/li liDig A Pony/li liI Me Mine/li liI’ve Got A Feeling/li liGet Back/li liWithin You Without You / Tomorrow Never Knows/li liThe End/li /ul /td /tr /tbody /table strongStandard emRock Band/em Instruments Equal Value/strongbr / The emRock Band/em Special Value Edition is all about providing players with the hottest music games at a value. emThe Beatles/em version of the Value Edition does this by bundling emThe Beatles: Rock Band/em with the standard emRock Band/em controllers and accessories. emThe Beatles: Rock Band/em is 100% compatible with these items. Game controllers provided include: a emRock Band/em guitar, emRock Band/em drum kit with sticks, emRock Band/em microphone./p pstrongThe Gameplay Venues/strongbr / Having made music together in various capacities and combinations for more than ten years, The Beatles career is inextricably linked with a variety of venues. Follow The Beatles from their earliest days in locales in Liverpool and Hamburg, to their triumphant Ed Sullivan Show appearance and beyond. In addition, join them in the studio at Abbey Road and experience dreamscapes that put you inside the psychedelic era. Just a few of the famous venues players can expect to see in the game are: Cavern Club, The Ed Sullivan Theater, Shea Stadium, Budokan, Abbey Road, Rooftop, And many more./p pstrongemThe Beatles: Rock Band/em Special Value Edition for Xbox 360 Includes/strong:/p ul liemThe Beatles: Rock Band/em software for Xbox 360/li liStandard emRock Band/em controllers and accessories, including: ul liemRock Band/em guitar/li liemRock Band/em drum kit, with sticks/li liemRock Band/em microphone/li /ul /li liGame manual and controller assembly instructions/li /ul /td /tr /tbody /table