'Rock Band 2' makes the manliest men rock goddesses

Posted at 1:00 PM Sep 29, 2008

By Bonnie Ruberg

Thank the video game review gods! What should arrive on my doorstep this weekend but a copy of Rock Band 2, the game that lets you and you friends annoy the neighbors while pretending you actually know how to play music, complete with two guitars and a beautiful new drum set. Sure, they're just glorified game controllers, but they're as close to real instruments as I'm going to get.

Of course, my fiancé, our friend/roommate, and I did what any good gamers would do: we spent the next five hours after Rock Band's arrival baking a delicious chocolate cake and rocking out. What does cake have to do with rocking? Nothing, except that both are awesome.

Anyways, unlike the Wii version of the first Rock Band we own, Rock Band 2 lets you customize your own characters, which means you decide what you want your rock god equivalent to look like. I, as always, aimed for a curvy redhead -- well, as curvy as the game would let me go, which was still pretty deathly thin. My fiancé, who has olive skin and dark hair, made a version of himself on crack (therefore solidifying his look as a rocker). Our roommate didn't even attempt to recreate himself though. He went straight for the "hot chick with nice tits." Then he proceeded to ogle her throughout our sets.

This I find amusing. Our roommate is a guy's guy. He likes large cuts of meat. He checks out girls on the street. He calls other guys "pussies." And here he is, playing bass guitar as a hot, Spanish chick with no shirt on. Rock on, lady, rock on.