Rock Band Goes LEGO

Oh, and for those who believe you’re never too old to play with LEGOs, you guys can rock out to the game too.

T.T. Games, the company that put out the “LEGO Star Wars,” “LEGO Indiana Jones” and “LEGO Batman” video games, is teaming up with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, MTV Games and Harmonix to release the game. It will be available on Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii, as well as a version for the Nintendo DS. “LEGO Rock Band” will work with Rock Band instruments as well as other music game controllers.

“‘LEGO Rock Band’ combines the multiplayer music experience of Rock Band with the fun, customization and humor of the LEGO videogame franchise packed with brilliant chart-topping songs and classic favorites suitable for younger audiences,” says Warner Bros.

“Rock Band” allows up to four players to rock out on plastic instruments, including lead guitar, bass guitar, drums and a microphone, hitting corresponding buttons (or matching the pitch of your voice) as the notes scroll on-screen.

Instead of selecting a punk-rocker or a metalhead as your on-screen band persona, “LEGO Rock Band” lets players build their own LEGO avatar, band and entourage, including roadies, managers and crew.

The game is set for release for this year’s holiday season, just in time to make it onto kids’ Dear Santa lists.

It’s about time. I mean, if colorful interlocking plastic bricks can fill Batman’s cape and Indiana Jones’ trademark hat and whip, then they can certainly grab a mic in those claw-grip hands and rock out. (Man, how nerdy did that paragraph sound?!)

The tracklist features Blur’s “Song 2,” Carl Douglas’ “Kung Fu Fighting,” Pink’s “So What,” Good Charlotte’s “Boys and Girls” and Europe’s “The Final Countdown.”

The game will feature you and your bandmates performing everywhere from local venues and stadiums in addition to fantasy locations on Earth and beyond. Could this mean the LEGO rockers might visit the sets of “LEGO Indiana Jones” and “LEGO Star Wars”? Maybe the band could perform for Gotham City.

“Guitar Hero: Metallica,” the newest addition to the “Guitar Hero” franchise, was released late last month. The game features 28 tunes from Metallica’s catalog as well as songs from bands like Motorhead, Slayer and Mastodon.

The Beatles version of “Rock Band” is set to hit stores Sept. 9. Video game footage from “The Beatles: Rock Band” debuted during Paul McCartney’s set at Indio, Calif.’s Coachella festival April 17, according to MTV.com.

Read the MTV.com article here.