AC/DC Rock Band expansion exclusively releases to Walmart this holiday

by Dustin Burg { Sep 30th 2008 at 1:00PM }

Harmonix and MTV Games just made an announcement this morning regarding the release of a special edition of Rock Band. This "expansion" of sorts will be releasing this holiday EXCLUSIVELY at Walmart stores and it's called AC/DC LIVE: Rock Band Track Pack. So, yes, the rumor was true.

This new AC/DC themed edition of Rock Band will include 18 AC/DC songs that were pulled from their "Live at Donington" DVD and will retail for $39 at, again, Walmart stores. The game will ship to North American retailers in November and to our friends in Europe and Australia in November.

Interesting too is the fact that this retail AC/DC Rock Band edition is being called a track pack yet the game's description reads it's a "fully-featured, standalone extension" of Rock Band and Rock Band 2. But the game also comes packaged with a keycode to download the songs straight to your HDD and import the 18 tracks into your current Rock Band setlist. Speaking of setlists, check out the 18 AC/DC tracks that'll be included in the AC/DC LIVE: Rock Band Track Pack after the break. Oh, and uh ... hurray for Walmart?

AC/DC LIVE: Rock Band Track Pack Setlist

"Thunderstruck"
"Shoot to Thrill"
"Back in Black"
"Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be"
"Heatseeker"
"Fire Your Guns"
"Jailbreak"
"The Jack"
"Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"
"Moneytalks"
"Hells Bells"
"High Voltage"
"Whole Lotta Rosie"
"You Shook Me All Night Long"
"T.N.T."
"Let There Be Rock"
"Highway To Hell"
"For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)"

[Thanks, to everyone who sent this in]

Tags: ea, harmonix, mtv-games, rock-band, rock-band-2

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Fire Fawkes @ Sep 30th 2008 1:04PM

wow, that is a great selection of songs. I've actually been looking to jump into rock band or GH...this may have just convinced me to commit to RB.

DBoyFlex @ Sep 30th 2008 1:08PM

Does it have 100 pts of cheevos? That might be cool.

Achievement unlocked: Play all 18 songs 1000g

DBoyFlex @ Sep 30th 2008 1:08PM

Sorry, 1000 pts of cheevos

Paul @ Sep 30th 2008 1:25PM

danget man why does it have to be 39 bucks for 18 songs? i wish it was a little cheaper and i would be all over it. i know that 18 songs at 160 ms points would be 36 dollars and the other 3 dollars is i guess costs for the disc, case, manual, etc. mainly, i just wish we were able to dl certain songs that we want.

Paul @ Sep 30th 2008 1:31PM

just to clarify/expand these are the songs i would get:
thunderstruck
back in black
hells bells
t.n.t.
you shook me all night long
dirty deeds done dirt cheap
highway to hell
so i am really only interested in 7 of these songs. come on harmonix i want to give you my money just not 39 dollars worth of it!

Deezul @ Sep 30th 2008 1:41PM

Yeah, I only am interested in about half of them as well. Also, I would have preferred studio recordings, not live recordings.

But what I really want is some Primus...

joeybeast @ Sep 30th 2008 2:00PM

AC/DC only sells CDs, their songs aren't even available for download legally anyways.

jdkay20 @ Sep 30th 2008 1:34PM

Yes. I get to play some AC/DC. This is awesome.

Mr Bunky @ Sep 30th 2008 1:44PM

I can't wait to see how many people lose their voice trying to sing like Brian Johnson.

dunnypop @ Sep 30th 2008 1:52PM

I wonder how this would be different than just straight DLC?
pre-made characters?

Kizzle @ Sep 30th 2008 1:55PM

This sucks for a few reasons -

Overpriced, obviously. Standalone or not, 40 bucks for 18 songs is definitely on the high end for Rock Band tracks (more than the usual 2 bucks per song).

Live versions. I know this album is actually really good quality in both performance and audio, but it's still not the same. Don't want to have Brian Johnson singing on the Bon Scott songs. Give us the studio tracks.

That said, I would think this will be clearanced within a few months. Everyone that wants it is going to buy it right away, I don't see this as something that is going to sell like crazy over the next 12 months.