I’ve been ripping through the game on the drums for the last couple of hours. Aside from many of the things I love about it, I must say that I’m extremely disappointed that they have not fixed the lag on the drum fills!
For some reason it seems worse on this game than Beatles or RB2, probably because of the difficulty of Tre’Cool’s rythms.
(I can’t get out of the fills without losing the rythm unless I can completely block it out)
My set up is calibrated perfectly, which makes the fills sound and feel like there’s another drummer joining in and jacking up the song. I used to love the fills when I played RB on my 25″ tube TV and I counld actually improvise within the song.
But the better your home theatre, the worse it plays. I really wish they would do away with the fills now, or give us an option to turn them OFF.

Anyone know where I can give this feedback that it might get through to the makers?

But when it comes down to it, I can’t stand listening to Billie Joe or any other whiny, perpetually adolescent frontman sing. Good Charlotte, Panic at the Disco, Fall Out Boy — the singers from these bands all sound identically terrible.

The drumming may be fast and fun, but the music is such a turn off to the ear that I’m going to have to pass.

Moved on to Milton Keys, and based on the simplicity of the guitars on the first 3 songs, I decided to pull double duty and bust out the microphone. Thats probably the most fun I have had playing GD thus far, being able to sing along. I wish I could do it more often with RB2, but in order for me to pull it off, I really need to know the words by heart. Good thing I’ve been listening to Green Day relentlessly for years!

Had to stop playing in order for my lil one to get to bed and sleep, but I am itchin for the next chance for me to fire it up!

@Arkk, if you haven’t downloaded any of the 21CB songs, I’d go with the Plus version. Those are some of the more entertaining tracks from the album, and the game just doesn’t feel complete to me without them. Sucks that that kind of makes it a $70 game, though.

@Dry Country: On an intellectual level, I think I got more out of the Beatles; I didn’t really know much of their stuff beyond the super-popular songs, and it was really interesting to me to discover more about this legendary band. But in terms of actual entertainment value, Green Day wins for me, hands down. I just find these songs a lot more fun to play.

@Voegelchen, toymachine is correct: other DLC does not work in Green Day. In fact, you can’t even download the 6 21CB DLC songs in the game — you have to do it in one of the other games, or in the standalone RB Store “app” on 360.

Speaking of the 6 tracks they’ve released from 21st Century Breakdown, I personally have enjoyed them. Some are super-easy (21 Guns), but others provide a real challenge.

And if you think you’d like to have everything, the game, the export to Rock Band/Rock Band 2, and the 6 tracks already released as DLC, then the “plus” version is the way to go.

For $10 more, you get $21-$22 worth of content (the export would normally cost $10, and each of the two 3-packs cost $5.50 on the 360 and PS3, and $6.00 on the Wii since there’s no multi-pack song discount available there).

I already grabbed the 6 songs from 21st Century when they came out, so I went with the cheaper option (and actually pre-ordered it from Gamestop and got a free export code).

Also if you like drumming you should be buying this game.