Vi har talt med Project Manager Daniel Sussman omkring Rock Band 4 som blev annonceret under PAX East i Boston. Der er kun meget få detaljer, men det lykkedes os at få lidt at vide omkring instrumenterne, hvordan DLC'er skal holde liv i spillet, og hvad vi kan forvente at se når vi køber spillet.
"We could not be more excited to be talking about Rock Band 4," siger Sussman. "Honestly this is a game we knew we'd come back to at some point, and really it was over the summer when a vision started to crystallise. For me it was one of these things where we would not be hear talking to you if we didn't feel we had a creative vision that warranted the return."
"We're bringing a lot of creative energy to the game this time around," udtaler Sussman omkring pausen siden Rock Band 3 og Rock Band Blitz. "That's a function of some of the stuff that we have worked on over the years. It's been nice to have that break. That said it feels so good to come back to a franchise that we know and love. And the first thing that we did was we started playing Rock Band. We went back and played the games as fans and it was great. It was great to find that this game at its core is really pure, is really fun, it's really straight forward in a lot of ways and then we were able to think critically about our work and think about, you know, 'what could we bring? what could we do here?' and 'where did we swing and miss, frankly?'. You know there were a lot of things that we worked on that get away from the core message and fantasy that was fulfilled as part of the Rock Band promise."
Instrumenter er nok det som gør Rock Band oplevelsen unik, og Harmonix arbejder for at gøre de gamle instrumenter kompatible med den nye udgave.
"There are a tremendous amount of people that still have controllers, that still use them and so we're working with Microsoft and Sony to support all of the old stuff," forklarer Sussman. "Which we feel very good about. It's challenging, cause in fact a lot of the support has to happen on the first party side. We need support from Microsoft and Sony. So far we've gotten that support. It's been great."
Den nye generation af konsoller er bygget til den digitale verden, og selvom Rock band 4 vil blive solgt på disk med en masse sange, er der planer om at holde liv i spillet gennem hele generationens levetid.
"We're planning for Rock Band 4 to be the game for this console generation,"
"We're talking about the Xbox One and the PS4 and there's a great ability for us to deliver content and features as title updates as opposed to a new disc. We want Rock Band 4 to be an evolutionary step from Rock Band 3. We think we're actually deserving of the 4 in the title at the same time it doesn't imply that there will be a Rock Band 5, 6, 7. We think that we can build on a very stabile and fun base game."
Rock Band 4 er sat til at udkomme til PS4 and Xbox One i oktober.