The Music Studio winds up being little more than a half-hour diversion for most people, and the look of the game still feels like the Guitar Hero days of yore. For next year, Activision and Neversoft need to really bust out in a new direction and give gamers something that's more oriented towards playing more music together with your buddies, rather than just adding feature bullets to the back of the box. If they can do that, they can overtake Rock Band. 83/100