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Rock Band DLC: Get Some Foo

Nov. 11 8:27 PM by Terry Terrones

The Foo Fighters kick ass, plain and simple. Thankfully gamers can now add more Foo songs to the initially puny collection on Rock Band and Rock Band 2 through the recently released "The Colour and the Shape" album.

The album, available for 1600MS points ($20) in its entirety or 160MS points ($1.99) per song, gives gamers access to 14 Foo Fighters songs. Sweet! "The Colour and the Shape" is available for download on the Xbox 360 right now, poor PS3 gamers have to wait until Thursday.

Hit the jump for all the details.

MTV Games and Harmonix announced today that Foo Fighters' best selling album, The Colour and the Shape, will become the seventh complete album to join the Rock Band® Music Store catalog of downloadable content.

Selling more than 2 million copies in the US alone, The Colour and the Shape is the most successful album from the alternative rock band and includes hit singles "Monkey Wrench," "Hero" and "Everlong". With "Everlong" already featured on the Rock Band 2 soundtrack, the DLC album will include the following tracks:

"Doll", "Monkey Wrench", "Hey, Johnny Park!", "My Poor Brain", "Wind Up", "Up in Arms", "My Hero", "See You", "Enough Space", "February Stars", "Walking After You", "New Way Home

The Colour and the Shape will be available for download starting November 11, 2008, for the Xbox®360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and November 13, 2008, for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. Pricing will be $19.99 (1600 Microsoft Points) for the album, or $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) per track.

With the release of this album Rock Band fans will now have access to 14 solid tracks from the Foo Fighters' "Learn To Fly" was already featured on the original Rock Band soundtrack. All 14 tracks can be played in Rock Band 2's different modes including Quickplay where the album itself will be called out in its own subheader, and Tour Challenges, where users will be prompted to play through all Foo Fighters tracks in a standalone setlist.

The Colour and the Shape joins the growing list of Rock Band albums in the DLC music catalog, which includes Mötley Crüe's Dr. Feelgood, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Rush's Moving Pictures, Megadeth's Peace Sells& But Who's Buying?, Pixies' Doolittle, Judas Priests' Screaming For Vengeance and The Cars' The Cars. With the addition of the Foo Fighters album there are now more than 400 tracks available to date via disc and download purchase (complete list of tracks at http://www.rockband.com/music).

Related Links: - The GamePro Rock Band 2 review, the RB2 gameplay trailer, info on the overpriced AC/DC Live: Rock Band Track Pack

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