The Beatles: Rock Band

Reviewers in the traditional media were billing The Beatles: Rock Band to be "the most important video game ever." I disagree, because as we all the know, the most important video game ever is Ubisoft's brilliant Imagine: Party Babyz. But I can see three ways where'd they come to that conclusion:

A) As members of the traditional media, they probably have a life beyond video games (unlike many of us).
B) Chances are they are older than most gamers out there and feel they can connect with the Beatles moreso than the average gamer.
C) VIdeo game reviewers in the traditional media, as well as movie, book and tv reviewers, feel the need to support the more "arty" games than the mainstream ones.

Combine everyones love with The Beatles and the hotness that is music games, and you have the perfect combination for a game any reviewer can love.
To be honest, I actually think this is the best music game I've ever played, and that reasoning is solely because it's the Beatles. Not because I prefer their music over some of the stuff that can be found in other Rock Band games, but because this is the one game I know I can do good/great vocals with. I've been listening to this band all my life, I got most of these songs down pact.
It's just too bad that the song list is limited to 45 songs (46 if you're playing it on the 360 and want to donate to charity). Mind you, most of these songs are excellent with only one or two getting the 'meh' vote from myself. The short song list makes the story mode go by faster than expected. Too fast to really feel a connection to the band and be upset when they break up. Then again, it's kind of pointless to be upset that they broke up when at any time you can go play one of their classics.
The song list and the short story mode are really the only down spots to the game. Mind you it's better than Rock Band 2's endless-repeat-of-songs tour mode, but still there should have been at least 10 more songs in this game (like Help!) Really, the only time you'll find yourself repeating music over and over again is when taking the game online. With the Wii version, I found that every group of people I played with always wanted to do the same songs. I was on vocals, so it became extremely annoying to sing Come Together and Revolution over and over again, but God forbid I want to sing Paperback Writer. Online works just fine and I found everyone from beginners to experts on there. It still stinks that if one person drops out of a song, everybody fails, but that didn't happen too much, especially not as much as it did on Rock Band 2.
Though they don't work for me, adding the harmonies to the game really opens up the vocals for some people. Especially theatre people who are used to singing the harmony part. It was amazing how often my roommate would fail at the solo efforts but excel at the harmony parts. Made the game much more enjoyable for the both of us.
The Beatles: Rock Band is a great game, if you really like The Beatles. If you don't, it's hard to justify the extra $10 cost, but if you were smart you pre-ordered the game with Gamestop and got the bonuses that are worth more than that $10 with it. If anything, wait for a price drop and be prepared to introduce yourself to the band that baby boomers, Gen-X'ers and hipsters all claim to be the greatest of all time.

Score: 8.5