Its a lot of fun but definitely not a finished experience. Hopefully more players playing can get more focus on development for this mode. As well progession is way too slow
Imagine if other games had individual modes that come with free updates reviewed like they're full price seperate releases. It's crazy how much content is available in Fortnite now all for free
This was the oddest review in a while. It went up and down and sounded like an aussie old man being cranky about kids' games and microtransactions. 10/10
It's fun but nowhere near perfect yet. Too few songs, plus the fun part of playing Guitar Hero and Rock Band was practicing songs over and over again to perfect them. Doesn't work when songs are rotated out.
1:08 using your overdrive in the break is cursed, because you’re just wasting it then. You’re meant to use the time to get double points for the notes you hit…
When you hire a reviewer who admits that’s he’s never played a free to play game before and doesn’t understand the monetisation of modern F2P games, and they then lowball the review of that game based largely on said monetisation - you can see how a score of 4 might seem disingenuous. He ended up talking more about Rocket Racing (not at all related) and the monetisation of Guitar Hero (a full price game that also required the purchase of a physical instrument control kit) DLC 15 years ago than he did the fundamentals of this Fortnite mode. It’s like, at some point you just stopped trying to fairly review games. I’m not even a Fortnite fan and this review irked me. The mode looks fine and the prices are more than in-line with MANY other F2P games, but then your reviewer would know that if you’d hired one who had ever played one before. Be better.
Fortnite Festival positively surprised me, especially since it’s not a full separate game, just a fun thing to play in between your BR games. It’s just a lot of fun.
This game feels great and instead of looking at it as a rythm game u completely compare it to rock band. the UI for this game and the accessibility for it is 10x better than any previous title close to it. it just came out and fortnite has no experience with this genre. treating it so harshly is typical IGN. The main issue is the cost for songs but complaining about controls just doesnt make sense as YOU decide what they are. u can map them out yourself and with confirmation of e-kits and guitars being added for use makes me wonder if you even did any research besides playing the game for an hour
4:41 Okay, who is this reviewer? Luke? Luke, you are my favorite reviewer to listen to at IGN. "My wife trying to play Tekken like a tiny type writer" 😂
Its an interesting mode. But it lacks the guitar hero vibes. But more of rock band. My problem is a lot of the songs do not use a guitar or drums. It is mostly pop and rnb songs, but lacks other genres too
Was expecting a 7 from ign but a 4 cuz it’s a gamepad. IGN you need to git gud on osu or take a music theory class to get the rhythm down. You can score an easy flawless 100% on expert. Some songs are actually fun being on expert like Kendrick’s i on bass or Gaga’s bad romance bass beginning getting your fingers warmed up
You can play 4 different instruments with obviously different keys to press on every song adding to the replay ability, and timing your star ability with the rest of your band is very important for the best score on leaderboards as well as making sure everyone plays a different thing so it’s not the same playing solo and every note being double if you hit them perfectly adds more skill. Not to mention the announcement of instruments being made by Epic for this but you can already use the guitar hero guitars if you have one.
They review the game without micro transactions, and after a week of release Activision added the microtransaction. Nitrofuled was killed off by Activision greed.
Most GH fans I've seen are more just happy that it's there and getting a much wider audience into these types of games. I've gotten more of a "This is pretty neat for what it is" vibe from the reception. If we're being real, nobody is swapping from Clone Hero to Fortnite Festival, which is the general metric that this review is being judged on.
The foundation is there. There's just not a whole lot of actual game unfortunately. I've played a decent amount and finished the festival pass, and this game is definitely the most lacking out of the new additions
It's free with a massive asterisk. Once the tracks rotate and you lose access to the song you wanted, you're gonna run over to the item store and get it for their highly inflated price, again. Just play Clone Hero.
@@CuteBaldman14 lol no it's not. And you know what made Rock Band? Instrument controllers and a mic with a group of your friends with a massive song catalogue. Not tapping a controller to a pitiful song selection.
The tracks are too expensive 5 bucks per tracks is not how you price things ive enjoyed the mode but everuthing is expensive and the festival pass way too overpriced and doesnt have enough to entice you to buy it again for returns (the free and locked vbucks) nor more tracks because the pass only gives you 3 tracks it shouldve give us more because the asking price is higher
@@sunakunxvCosmetics? Doesn’t exactly work that way in rhythm games. No other games charges this much to play. Calling it free to play is VERY dishonest.
they got the most boomeriest boomer to review a zoomer game💀 Im not surprised he's just ripping the game to shreds as an old school gamer not used to the current monetization models and it not being exactly like his precious rock band 4 💀 Yeah the songs are expensive but they give you a free track list that changes on a rotation and you can leech off the people that did buy the expensive songs by partying up with them
Its not horrible, its just worse than most rhythm games in any recent years, and the f2p doesn't overcome the degree of monetization. So it gets rated accordingly.
Playing butter barn hoedown with a group of four friends is a 10/10 experience.
A true person of class 🥜 🤠
🤝
@@rome9984 come on down!
This can be summarized as: this is not a full $60 Rock Band game.
Precisely. It’s not! And it should not be judged like it is. :,))
Yeah that’s the sum of it all
Yeah but they cost almost the same when alot of the songs are locked behind 5 bucks per song.
Can be summarized as: 6:30
Nah the game is just unfinished
They should name it "Fortnite: Rockband". It's a fun mode. Surprised that it has more players than The racing mode.
Does it have more players than the racing mode? All the stats suggest it’s far lower
@@MrDwightSchrutein game festival always has more players
@@MrDwightSchruteyes
it tells you on the side how many current players are playing the mode. usually on average its like 25k-30k more players on festival @@MrDwightSchrute
@@zekekillahit's been about 100k for the past few days what are you talking about
Its a lot of fun but definitely not a finished experience. Hopefully more players playing can get more focus on development for this mode. As well progession is way too slow
They plan working on more stuff
My girlfriend fell in love with Fortnite because of the Fortnite Festival mode. She's been playing it all day long. Her face while play is 10/10
You should probably introduce her to guitar hero and rock and if she doesn't enjoy the normal game 😂
Imagine if other games had individual modes that come with free updates reviewed like they're full price seperate releases. It's crazy how much content is available in Fortnite now all for free
FREE
Exactly!!! I'm having so much fun with Lego Fortnite!
This was the oddest review in a while. It went up and down and sounded like an aussie old man being cranky about kids' games and microtransactions. 10/10
Everyone should be more cranky about it.
Yeah it was really rant-like and like they put no effort in it
He kept referring to rock band as if guitar hero isn’t the bigger one and the one everyone knows.
A wise man once said: Another day, another victory for the OG taking down the sweats imposters among us
No one said this ever lol
Are you sure about that @@twosnakse
There are fair takes, like with the cost of the songs and whatnot, but this mode is *NOT* a 4 nor even *BAD*
Luke Perry is a joke. British joke.
It's fun but nowhere near perfect yet. Too few songs, plus the fun part of playing Guitar Hero and Rock Band was practicing songs over and over again to perfect them. Doesn't work when songs are rotated out.
It's free to play. You can buy every song if you want or songs that you like most and repeat them as much as you like.
@@14anotherand? You use to get that included in the actual rock band
@@jakeaffleck3307 It's free to play. Rock Band was full price game with dlc. Rules from past does not work nowadays.
@14another at almost $5 per song it's to expensive
@@jakeaffleck3307Yeah but “actual rock band” was like $140+ with a guitar. This is a free game your comparing too 🤦🏼♂️
1:08 using your overdrive in the break is cursed, because you’re just wasting it then. You’re meant to use the time to get double points for the notes you hit…
When you hire a reviewer who admits that’s he’s never played a free to play game before and doesn’t understand the monetisation of modern F2P games, and they then lowball the review of that game based largely on said monetisation - you can see how a score of 4 might seem disingenuous. He ended up talking more about Rocket Racing (not at all related) and the monetisation of Guitar Hero (a full price game that also required the purchase of a physical instrument control kit) DLC 15 years ago than he did the fundamentals of this Fortnite mode.
It’s like, at some point you just stopped trying to fairly review games. I’m not even a Fortnite fan and this review irked me. The mode looks fine and the prices are more than in-line with MANY other F2P games, but then your reviewer would know that if you’d hired one who had ever played one before.
Be better.
other free to play games being money sinks doesn't make it wrong to not like when this one is.
Yes, he's played much better rhythm games.
"Mom can we have Rock Band?"
"No son, we have Rock Band at home."
Rock Band at home:
Underrated comment
Fortnite Festival positively surprised me, especially since it’s not a full separate game, just a fun thing to play in between your BR games. It’s just a lot of fun.
Gives it a 4, also continuously misses easy notes in this mode 😂😂😂😂
This guy is great, appreciating the brutal honesty of this review rather than catering to Fortnite's massive fanbase
Low IQ moment
Aight lil bro
The game mode is fun but it get a little boring with the few song it has
“You’re like a music producer or something bro?”
“Yeah”
“Noooo way, me too bro”
“Niiice, which DAW are u using”
“Fortnite bro”
This game feels great and instead of looking at it as a rythm game u completely compare it to rock band. the UI for this game and the accessibility for it is 10x better than any previous title close to it. it just came out and fortnite has no experience with this genre. treating it so harshly is typical IGN. The main issue is the cost for songs but complaining about controls just doesnt make sense as YOU decide what they are. u can map them out yourself and with confirmation of e-kits and guitars being added for use makes me wonder if you even did any research besides playing the game for an hour
4:41 Okay, who is this reviewer? Luke? Luke, you are my favorite reviewer to listen to at IGN. "My wife trying to play Tekken like a tiny type writer" 😂
Theyve literally cut the gameplay so much to make it look like he hit all the notes, bro rated it so low cuz he cant play it well 😭😭
u guys gave this a 4
and big mouth a 9
Certified pedophile
different people do different reviews
Did they buy $60 worth of vbucks then review?? This seems hostile for a free update
Its an interesting mode. But it lacks the guitar hero vibes. But more of rock band. My problem is a lot of the songs do not use a guitar or drums. It is mostly pop and rnb songs, but lacks other genres too
How is it bad? Its a fun mode that made me install fortnite again.
Songs are expensive and also to get a new guitar or drums. It would be better if you can just unlock them like the old days in video games?
The instruments are the definition of highway robbery, but did they need to drag it down to a FOUR?
They should let you use the right thumbstick as a type of Whammy bar
Was expecting a 7 from ign but a 4 cuz it’s a gamepad. IGN you need to git gud on osu or take a music theory class to get the rhythm down. You can score an easy flawless 100% on expert. Some songs are actually fun being on expert like Kendrick’s i on bass or Gaga’s bad romance bass beginning getting your fingers warmed up
Plus you can easily hook a instrument controller on pc. The game is unfinished but the controls aren't an issue
Those song prices are ridiculous
It’s a free update wtf are they complaining for?
Calling it free to play when they charge that much to play the songs is quite dishonest.
One month from now, IGN will have Fortnite Festival Parties. Instrument previews.
One year from now IGN will give it 8 out of 10.
IGN usually has some pretty crap reviews, but this is one of the worst I've seen
You can play 4 different instruments with obviously different keys to press on every song adding to the replay ability, and timing your star ability with the rest of your band is very important for the best score on leaderboards as well as making sure everyone plays a different thing so it’s not the same playing solo and every note being double if you hit them perfectly adds more skill. Not to mention the announcement of instruments being made by Epic for this but you can already use the guitar hero guitars if you have one.
But….but CTR Nitro Fueled ALSO has microtransactions….
They review the game without micro transactions, and after a week of release Activision added the microtransaction.
Nitrofuled was killed off by Activision greed.
That game patched mtx in after the reviews. The publisher left it out to avoid bad review scores.
you can still play the entire game without microtransations. In fortnite you can't
Yes you can?@@bigmanmccheez5342
It sounds like this guy didn’t even want to review the game
Songs are too expensive
Your broke
@@michaeleh2964i dont think it has to do with being broke. 4$ per song for a sorry excuse of a rock band game aint it.
lol you have to buy them ? what a cashgrab
@@shadowstrangler1 for a free game you broke b u m
@michaeleh2964 says the one playing the "Free" broke version lol
how does ign rate it that low when the majority of guitar hero players like it
cus its ign
cuz bro's a boomer who doesnt understand todays gaming
Most GH fans I've seen are more just happy that it's there and getting a much wider audience into these types of games. I've gotten more of a "This is pretty neat for what it is" vibe from the reception.
If we're being real, nobody is swapping from Clone Hero to Fortnite Festival, which is the general metric that this review is being judged on.
The foundation is there. There's just not a whole lot of actual game unfortunately. I've played a decent amount and finished the festival pass, and this game is definitely the most lacking out of the new additions
Because it isn't COD.
This is my favorite new mode in Fortnite
Its just an opinion... Its just an opinion... Its just an opinion... Its just an opinion
Bro couldn't 5 star medium so now he's mad lmao
Not sure this grumpy dude is the right person to review this
Anybody else dissapointed at the fact that rocket racing doesn't have items like rocket league's rumble mode and other arcade racing games do?
4/10 😂, Fortnite festival isn't bad, 9/10
no way bro just reviewed a free game 💀
Love that Mr. Brightside got a big part on this video!
You’re comparing one of Fortnite’s six game modes to entire games. Did you expect anything else?
Wait a minute this isn't fortnite
The songs are free. The game is free. The mode is free. 10/10 for me.
the songs are only free on rotation or if youre leeching off randoms/friends
It's free with a massive asterisk. Once the tracks rotate and you lose access to the song you wanted, you're gonna run over to the item store and get it for their highly inflated price, again. Just play Clone Hero.
can you play the rockband drums to this game? how is it not like rockband?
I’m so confused lol. When did fortnite become guitar hero?
bro this game is a 6 out of ten at the least imo what the hell is this review
eh if you judge as its own game not really
This old man doesn’t get the experience of getting 4 teenage boys on voice chat singing bad Romance together
Genuinely curious here. Do people actually still have their peripherals to play this, or are most people playing with controllers?
So they should ask 7yo to buy a guitar and drumset so you can play the "true experience" like in Rock Band?
You can’t tell me this isn’t like rock band
Made by the same company as rockband
Well who gives a fuk if its free
@@CuteBaldman14 lol no it's not. And you know what made Rock Band? Instrument controllers and a mic with a group of your friends with a massive song catalogue. Not tapping a controller to a pitiful song selection.
Not even close. It’s missing over 75% of the elements. It’s an extremely basic rhythm game. That’s all it is
lmao hes comparing this to a $60 video game when u can literally play this for free. hes delusional af
ign moment
why the reviewer sounds lazy? 1.25-1.5x to make it better.
Why are you reviewing game as services like single player carriage games that came out on Nintendo 64?
Never thought I'd hear a song from PES 2009 in a 2023 video game. Nostalgia 🥺
Beat it to Beat Saber.
THE WEEKND??
Not a great review in my opinion.
If you want a rhythm game in 2024 play Guitar Hero World Tour Definitive Edition or Clone Hero
It's a 4 (Typical IGN)
The tracks are too expensive 5 bucks per tracks is not how you price things ive enjoyed the mode but everuthing is expensive and the festival pass way too overpriced and doesnt have enough to entice you to buy it again for returns (the free and locked vbucks) nor more tracks because the pass only gives you 3 tracks it shouldve give us more because the asking price is higher
Then don’t buy it lmao the base game is free stop complaining
@@sunakunxv imagine defending a game company go and steal ur moms credit card ur running out of vbucks
@@zerowolf9491 why buy cosmetics on a free to play game?
@@sunakunxvCosmetics? Doesn’t exactly work that way in rhythm games. No other games charges this much to play. Calling it free to play is VERY dishonest.
@@Fillster it’s literally a free to download game lmao you don’t have to buy anything to play the game
Tame Impala songs when?
lol its fortnite don't overthink it 😅
Get more out of Hatsune Miku Colourful Stage, Deemo 2, and Cytus 2
Eyyy nice to see a fellow pjsekai fan
How is this even a comparison?
they got the most boomeriest boomer to review a zoomer game💀
Im not surprised he's just ripping the game to shreds as an old school gamer not used to the current monetization models and it not being exactly like his precious rock band 4 💀
Yeah the songs are expensive but they give you a free track list that changes on a rotation and you can leech off the people that did buy the expensive songs by partying up with them
oh well, he's right
Capping for Fortnite is insane
@@DevinPosey20 where’s the cap?
certified copium addict
The copium from fortnite fans is an equal amount of hilarious and appalling
"But its f2p!"
So their is no metal then wtf
based IGN
ITS REALLY FUN IM SUPRISED YOU GAVE IT BAD......a 4
Stop with the Fortnite already.
Loved the upfront attitude and sass in this review. Call the game what it is and move on.
its like djmax respect v
It's fun and free simple
Course u guys hate it but most guitar hero players love it
Still not playable for me.
Fair review for watered down guitar hero/rockband
this is such a needless review
Sounds like a 6/7 to me
This just sounds horrible by the way he’s describing the game
Its not horrible, its just worse than most rhythm games in any recent years, and the f2p doesn't overcome the degree of monetization. So it gets rated accordingly.
Jesus this guy is struggling to make an impartial review.
It's a 4/10. Didn't want you to waste your time on a average COD player.
Just watch the video.
The best IGN review of 2023 👍
Bro it Fortnite did you really expect a full rock band game?💀
They're selling stuff for it like it is.
Who thought this was gonna be rock band 😂😂
Well, they bought up the studio that created rock band
Awesome Fortnite Festival Review Video.
just an awful review
When you gave alien isolation a 5.9 because you kept dying you lost all credibility with reviews.
different reviewer
They give it a 4
bad?!
Love this reviewer
4/10
25 minutes ago gang 👇
Yes it's so amazing 😃
They gave it a 4
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