Last Friday, the
Phoenix visited the Central Square offices of Harmonix, the video game development house behind the first two
Guitar Hero products, and, with help from their new parent company, MTV, the upcoming, hotly-anticipated
Rock Band, which, as you may have heard, takes
Guitar Hero's authentic musical simulator feel and stretches that to accommodate a drummer and vocalist. There's video forthcoming, but in the meantime, we present our conversation with Sean Baptiste, their director of community development, and one of the game's de facto spokespeople. One of the things that came across that might not come through in text, though, was just how passionate and genuinely excited about
Rock Band he was. You get a clear sense talking to him that he will gladly talk about it for hours, and never lose interest. He even told us as much. Anyway, here it is after the jump: