Any fans of RPGs will more than likely remember something about the Blue Dragon DLC that was released on the Japanese Marketplace, six months before the release of the game in the United States and Europe, back in February. Now, surely to the delight of many, this DLC has become available to anyone with Xbox Live. However, if RPGs aren’t your thing, you might be interested to hear about the new Guitar Hero II downloadable content.

The first piece of downloadable content to hit the Xbox Live Marketplace today was the Blue Dragon Ultra Hard Mod. This add-on is sure to add a great amount to the experience of an already decent enough game as gamers will now be able to play at a difficulty level twice as hard as the original, or even at a difficulty level so hard it that is meant to be started at Level 50. But what is even better than this is most definitely the fact that these two new features, along with the a third new feature allowing players to start the game over using a saved game from near the end of Blue Dragon, are absolutely free. Here are the details courtesy of Major Nelson.

• Title: Blue Dragon
• Content: Ultra Hard Mod
• Price: Free
• Availability: Not available in Japan
• Dash Text: [ESRB: T (Teen) FANTASY VIOLENCE] The Ultra Hard Mod adds three new features to Blue Dragon. New Game Plus is a game mode that allows you to start your game over using a saved game from near the end of Blue Dragon. The Hard game mode allows you to play at a difficulty level that is twice as high as the original. The Impossible game mode is the ultimate in difficulty and is meant to be played starting at Level 50 or higher. © 2007 BIRD STUDIO / MISTWALKER, INC. All Rights Reserved. © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. BLUE DRAGON contains AT&T Natural Voices® Text to Speech technology licensed from Wizzard Software Corporation. Microsoft, the Microsoft Game Studios logo, Blue Dragon, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox LIVE and the Xbox logos are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.

Next up is the latest Guitar Hero II downloadable content pack entitled Guitar Hero Indie Label Pack. Unfortunately, unlike Blue Dragon, this isn’t free. As anyone who is familiar with Guitar Hero II DLC will probably have guessed by now, to download this content will set you back 500 Microsoft Points for which you will receive the grand total of three songs. And the bad news keeps coming because if you are living in Japan, you will not be able to download this. Here are the details from Major Nelson.

• Title: Guitar Hero II
• Content: Guitar Hero Indie Label Pack
• Price: 500 Microsoft Points
• Availability: Not available in Japan
• Dash Text: [ESRB: T (Teen) MILD LYRICS] Detonation as performed by Trivium, Ex’s And Oh’s as performed by Atreyu, Bury the Hatchet as performed by Protest the Hero. For all song credits please visit www.redoctane.com There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see www.xbox.com/live/accounts.

Are you interested in either of these pieces of DLC? Even if you did buy Blue Dragon but don’t play it as much as you might have done before, it won’t hurt to download the Ultra Hard Mod seeing as it is totally free. But what about the Guitar Hero DLC? Are you fed up of having to pay for new songs, especially at the price of 500 Microsoft Points for three songs?? Do you feel that it is justified or ridiculous? Let us know.

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