It seems like everyone is branching out into LEGO games in order to just that younger fan base of gamers who don’t rely on fancy graphics and gory gameplay to satisfy their gaming needs, and the LEGO Star Wars and other franchises have been quite successful, rendering their characters and worlds into LEGO characters instead of something that resembles real people. And now the time has come to Rock Band, with the aptly titled LEGO Rock Band. And yes, it’s exactly what you might expect from it.

Besides Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Batman — all action games — LEGO Rock Band is on the easy side of gameplay. It feature the tried and tested formula from Rock Band and other rhythm games, and includes LEGO characters, which can be highly customized, but still, of course, they’re plastic LEGOs. The game has a great feel of LEGOs, and you’ll be seeing the famous blocks everywhere, from sets, to menus and animations. However, one thing becomes clear very early on: if you’ve played and/or own Rock Band, there’s nothing new in the LEGO version. The gameplay is almost identical, so is the system, the challenges and virtually everything else. Before starting a game, you can chose to play a shorter version of the song, if you easily get tired from hitting notes constantly for 4+ minutes on some of the songs — which does get tedious after all. However, don’t expect a slimmed down, alternate edition of the songs, rather, most of them just end quite abruptly. Read the rest of the LEGO Rock Band review