Fortnite Festival Rekindles Fond Memories of a Forgotten PSP Favourite | Push Square
You won’t find Rock Band Unplugged at the top of many Best PSP Games lists, but the Harmonix spin-off – released during the peak of plastic peripheral popularity – was one of the finest games you could find on Sony’s handheld during its pre-PS Vita renaissance circa-2009. A stripped-back version of the main console games, this portable reimagining saw you switching between instruments, completing “phrases” by rhythmically tapping buttons in time to the music.
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The concept was temporarily revisited for Rock Band Blitz on the PS3, but has largely remained dormant in the decade or so since. As part of Epic’s push into full-blown Fortnite platform, however, the concept has been revived for Fortnite Festival – a music-based multiplayer game which uses the Battle Royale’s Locker in order to enable you to customise your band members using the hundreds of cosmetics you’ve likely already accrued by this point.
Upon selecting the mode from the title’s increasingly Roblox-esque main menu, you’ll be ushered into a social space where you can select from a list of rotating Featured songs – or any you may have purchased from the Item Shop. Music costs 500 V-Bucks per track, which works out at around £3.50/$4.50 each. Once you own a song, you can play it as many times as you like, and when you form a band with friends, you can share any music you own with them (so you only need to buy it once).
You can mix and match songs to create set lists, and you can select a difficulty and which instrument you’d like to play. There are unique note charts for the four roles: Lead Guitar, Drums, Vocals, and Bass Guitar. You play notes by pushing face buttons on the PlayStation controller
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