Boom Boom Rocket gets explosive title update
According to Bizarre Creations' latest Studio News post, the BBR title update adds guitar and dance map peripheral support, an enhanced scoring system, better VGA support and an improved fireworks rendering engine. Among those additions, the update also fixes other general bugs and gameplay issues, all of which you can view after the break. Anyone up for some Boom Boom Guitar Herocket?
[Via Gaming Bits]
Boom Boom Rocket Title Update
- Guitar and dancemat peripheral support.
- Japanese and Korean language support.
- Tweaked scoring system to make grade awarded more fair (now purely based on accuracy).
- The huge loud "noise" which popped up occasionally on endurance mode is now gone.
- Occurrences of scores getting overwritten with a lower score when playing with 2 profiles signed in is now fixed.
- Display updates when viewing the game through a VGA cable.
- Friends leaderboard now shows extra information such as grade, accuracy, etc.
- Multiplayer endurance mode fix for player colours swapping sporadically.
- Slightly bigger and better explosions (updates to firework rendering).
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Boff @ Nov 6th 2007 12:07PM
I really enjoyed this but kept putting off the purchase for some reason. With GHIII just round the corner (UK) there doesn't seem much point now.
Although saying that, the guitar support may help it once I get bored of rocking out on GH.
Still, nice to see Bizarre supporting it and keeping it up-to-date.
Boff @ Nov 6th 2007 12:08PM
P.S. I didn't think there were any dancemat peripherals for the 360???
DjDATZ @ Nov 6th 2007 12:10PM
boff...there are dancemat peripherals for the 360...they come with DDR universe.
loved the visuals of this game...too bad i have NO rhythm whatsoever.
Maiq The Liar @ Nov 6th 2007 12:22PM
I'd dust off my copy of BBR IF it had a case which could accumulate dust...but I'll definitely fire it up tonight and give it a go with the GH guitar. Peripherals FTW!
mnemo @ Nov 6th 2007 12:31PM
The title update was already online Saturday night. I received it when I showed BBR to a friend.
TORO @ Nov 6th 2007 12:33PM
It was a boring game with the controller, playing this with the guitar is just Guitar Hero with fireworks.
Synapse49 @ Nov 6th 2007 12:43PM
Anyone else notice that the little patch that was released prior to this one swapped out the Bizzare Creations logo with the EA one at the intial load screen?????
That's a good use of my harddrive space if I ever saw one. ;)
Also, do you actually have to strum the guitar if you're using that peripheral?
CyberKnight @ Nov 6th 2007 12:56PM
What, no support for the Scene It controllers? >:(
Deezul @ Nov 6th 2007 1:34PM
TORO - And Guitar Hero ISN'T Boom Boom Rocket with a plastic guitar and rock music?
Andrew @ Nov 6th 2007 1:38PM
Yeah, I'm going to have to try this on my GH guitar tonight. Hopefully there is a way to correlate the firework arrows with the frets on the guitar. Otherwise it will just be confusing :/
xenocidic @ Nov 6th 2007 1:49PM
Well this game comes on the Xbox Live Arcade Compilation Disc (comes with the Xbox 360 Arcade consoles) AND I just got GH2 , so , double bonus!
Haly @ Nov 6th 2007 2:33PM
DjDATZ: DDR universe isn't out in the UK so the dancemat support isn't much good over here. But the other additions are something :)
Macroy @ Nov 6th 2007 4:43PM
Can anyone tell me how much harder the songs get than "Hall of the Mountain Dude"? I was thinking about getting this, and I tried the guitar with the demo...but not if the hardest song is the equivalent of a Medium GH song.
Major Suckage @ Nov 6th 2007 5:13PM
Um, you could use the Guitar Hero controller back when BBR was released. I beat several of the songs using it before it was just a gimmick.
mnemo @ Nov 6th 2007 5:27PM
Just tried it with the X-plorer guitar. You really have to STRUM the "notes". Insane!
ccc @ Nov 7th 2007 12:11AM
@16
Yeah thats what I was just wondering myself.
If I can pull myself away from PuzzleQuest long enough while my 360 is powered up I'll give it a shot.
borandi @ Nov 7th 2007 2:58AM
Good update, some DLC would be good too ;) Probably go after the full 200GS now - been stuck at 100 for a while.
ccc @ Nov 7th 2007 1:41PM
Well, I tried it, played Smooth Operetta on medium, played it good I thought, hit 100 notes but only got 85 % accuracy. Looks to be the same old Boom Boom to me.
Amber @ Nov 7th 2007 4:44PM
Yeah, same old bbr. Still impossible to get an A unless you have +90% accuracy which is very difficult on Medium. I *did* see that the note chart changes for those playing with the guitar to make it more "guitar hero" like though.
Asforoneday @ Nov 10th 2007 1:12AM
Hopefully they tweaked the score system for the better. Getting an A on Medium was nearly impossible for some songs.