Andre Yoskowitz
30 Oct 2008 22:38
Confirming reports published yesterday, The Beatles, MTV and Harmonix have jointly announced that they will be collaborating on a "brand new videogame featuring the music of the iconic Beatles" and will be out in time for the holidays 2009.
Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos added the game will be a "new, full-blown custom game title production built from the ground up". This won't be a special one band branded game like Aerosmith had with Guitar Hero however, it will be a whole new game.
Jeff Jones, CEO of Apple Corps, noted that the catalog would include songs from the entire run of The Beatles. It also appears the game will work with peripherals from Rock Band as well as Guitar Hero.
"We want to take players on an experiential journey through the band's history," he said. "A visual exploration of the Beatles' imagery is a big part of this project," Rigopulos said. "With apologies...there's very little that we're ready to say about the game itself."
MTV Networks president Van Toffler added, "We're going to provide the ultimate platform for new generations of fans to start their own love affair with the Beatles". Van Toffler also noted that the song of George Martin, Giles Martin, would be doing music production for the game.
"The thing that we're trying to keep to is for people to play the songs as though they're playing the originals. So we will be adhering to the original mixes my father and the Beatles did, and trying to preserve the sound quality as much as possible," said Martin.