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Fortnite Festival Rekindles Fond Memories of a Forgotten PSP Favourite | Push Square
16.12.2023 - 15:15 / pushsquare.com / Billie Eilish / Fortnite Festival / Of A
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 in time to the music, and successfully playing coloured phrases will allow you to trigger Overdrive, multiplying your score.
In multiplayer, you’ll all need to work together to trigger Overdrive at the right time, and it adds a sense of collaboration to the rhythm gameplay. Our only criticism is that the single player is a lot less fun than Rock Band Unplugged; obviously Harmonix is focused on the co-op here, but we reckon a mode where you switch between all four instruments would be fun for those on their own.
Each day a selection of new “featured” songs are picked from a larger pool of tracks, so there’s often something new to try even if you don’t intend to spend any money. Artists so far span a variety of genres, including Billie Eilish, All-American Rejects, and NF. There are also a number of songs from The Weeknd, who’s the featured artist in this debut season.
Interestingly, while your progress in Fortnite Festival will contribute to the main overall Battle Pass, there’s also a
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