Rock Band Adds PS2 Version, Updates Song List

Rock Band receives a last-generation port in Europe and the sounds of Deep Purple.

Game|Life confirms that Electronic Arts announced a PlayStation 2 version of Harmonix’s Rock Band for Europe at the Games Convention in Germany. Rock Band will reach foreign shores in early 2008 featuring its own soundtrack to suit local interests. The U.S. releases will be coming out this fall packing new hits Deep Purple’s “Highway Star” and Jet’s “Are You Gonna Be My Girl.”

The full announced song list reads:
1960s
Rolling Stones – “Gimme Shelter”

1970s
The Who – “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
Mountain – “Mississippi Queen”*
David Bowie – “Suffragette City”
Black Sabbath – “Paranoid”*
Blue Oyster Cult – “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
The Ramones – “Blitzkrieg Bop”
Deep Purple – “Highway Star”

1980s
Rush – “Tom Sawyer”*
Bon Jovi – “Wanted Dead or Alive”
The Clash – “Should I Stay or Should I Go”
Faith No More – “Epic”

1990s
Foo Fighters – “Learn to Fly”
Metallica – “Enter Sandman”
Nirvana – “In Bloom”
Stone Temple Pilots – “Vasoline”
Weezer – “Say It Ain’t So”
Smashing Pumpkins – “Cherub Rock”
Radiohead – “Creep”
Beastie Boys – “Sabotage”

2000s
The Hives – “Main Offender”
Queens of the Stone Age – “Go With the Flow”
The Strokes – “Reptilia”
Jet – “Are You Gonna Be My Girl”
OK Go – “Here It Goes Again”
Nine Inch Nails – “The Hand That Feeds”

*Indicates a cover song