This is a change of heart for the band, because as Clayton notes, U2 didn't want to compromise their image, letting their avatars be playable during other bands' songs. With the release of Beatles Rock Band, however, the band knows how to do it right: "What The Beatles have done, where the animation is much more representative of them, is what we're interested in, rather than the one-size-fits-all animation. We didn't want to be caricatured." While not as influential as the Beatles, U2 does have a few decades of music to cover in the same career-overview fashion.
Tyler says: Asking for your own version of Rock Band can seem like a jerk move, but coming from U2 it's perhaps less so. And the request didn't come from Bono, making it look even less megalomaniacal. While I want to roll my eyes at the band's "me too" plea, I can't help but think that U2 is one of the few bands that could pull off its own game. Plus, with the whole Courtney Love Guitar Hero 5 snafu, maybe it's a good thing more bands are wanting to have their likenesses treated appropriately. But I have to wonder, would giving other bands the spotlight treatment diminish the appeal of band-centric games? Other than Led Zeppelin, who else could hold their own in the band game genre?
