This weekend, I had a chance to play the latest music play-a-long video game, Rock Band, which is the natural successor to the Guitar Hero line of games. Now, don’t get me wrong, Guitar Hero is an amazing game, but Rock Band blows it away because it’s so much more fun to get a bunch of your friends together collaborating on a game. It’s also more diverse, because now you get to try to master 4 different instruments/vocals. You’ll want to keep switching up so everyone gets a chance on everything (guitar, drums, bass and vocals). You’ll soon figure out who’s good at what.

Available for Xbox 360 and Playstation (2 and 3). Make sure you get the bundle with the drums, guitar, bass and mic if you don’t already have any instruments.

By the way, for those of you non-musicians who have played Rock Band already, you know how hard the drums can be (and they say drummers are the dumbest in the band…) Take a look at this video of a drummer playing Metallica’s “…And Justice for All”. Ah, so that’s how you do it… Right, just a few years of practice and I’m so there.