If you’ve been paying attention to pretty much anything you’ll probably have heard of Antoine Dodson. This average person turned Internet superstar was caught voicing his opinion of a criminal who broke into his house and attempted to harass his sister. Soon after the serious situation was turned into a sarcastic one when his news interview was remixed into the hit song ‘Bed Intruder’.

Well here we are nearly a year later and the hype has somewhat died down but it seems that it’s about to get a jump start. According to recent reports, ‘Bed Intruder’ will be making its way to the Rock Band Network sometime in the near future. Unfortunately this has yet to be confirmed by anyone official involved with the song but a video has hit YouTube of ‘Bed Intruder’ being played through with Rock Band 3.

Looks damn epic to me.

Rock Band was responsible for starting a huge new trend in gaming, where music played the center stage — literally. Since then, a rivalry ensued between Rock Band and Activision’s Guitar Hero, which jumped on the band wagon, so to say. Now MTV Games and Harmonix are back with the third installment of Guitar Hero.

Rock Band 3 follows the same path as the Rock Bands of the past, and it does it in style. Put simply, if you were into Rock Band before, the third installment will satisfy your music needs. However cliched that sounds. In addition to the guitars, drums and mics, Rock Band 3 brings the keyboard as well, for the complete band package with support for up to 7 players. 83 songs are included in Rock Band 3, and all vary quite a bit. The campaign, called “Road Challenges”, gets you and your band on the road to complete a series of ever escalating challenges. Your performance is tracked through out the game and you get awards for completing certain tasks, which offers great replay value, even though a game like Rock Back has plenty of replay value, as long as you got folks to play with.

The new addition is the keyboard, which is sold separately at $80 or $130 with the game. The keyboard is a bit more complex, with 25 keys, and even has Pro challenges, where your keyboard skills are tested, and where you can learn some new tunes as well. There are Pro challenges for other instruments, like drums and guitar as well. However, the instruments are still quite expensive — the drums will run you $40, a guitar for the Pro challenge will run you a steep $150 — although the new guitar is quite a bit more complex, and offers over 100 buttons instead of the strings. But it’s still quite an investment your looking into: to make a complete set for a few friends can easily cost more than you spend on an Xbox 360 or PS3 console.

Overall, Rock Band 3 follows the tradition of previous Rock Band offerings, and adds a few new features, and refines others. It also follows the Rock Band tradition of costing quite a lot to get a few instruments.

The Good:
Follows the Rock Band tradition
Lots of different tracks
Great campaign and many modes
Awesome in multiplayer

The Bad:
Still pricey
Not as good in singleplayer

Overall score: 8/10

Sick of rhythm based music games yet? No? Good. It was just announced thanks to Harmonix’s offical Facebook page that Rock Band 3 will be made available this holiday season. Unfortunately, other than telling us that EA will be publishing the game, Harmonix has released virtually no details about its contents.

Although, they did throw in the catchy phrase that they plan to “innovate and revolutionize the music genre once again, just as Harmonix did with the original Rock Band, Rock Band 2and The Beatles: Rock Band.”

Now, give us some details.