Ever since the launch of the first Guitar Hero, I have been a huge fan of rhythm games with fake instruments. In 2007, I ditched Guitar Hero for Rock Band and didn’t look back. Rock Band 2 improved upon an already fantastic music game experience, and I have gotten countless hours of fun out of the Harmonix series, much to the annoyance of my downstairs neighbors. When Harmonix announced Rock Band Unplugged, the first handheld installment of the franchise, however, I was not at all excited. I didn’t see the need to put this game on the PSP, and I began to worry that the developer was going to do the same thing that Activision did with Guitar Hero: milk all of the fun right out of it. As it turns out, I should have had a little more faith in Harmonix. While Rock Band Unplugged is no substitute for the real deal, it’s a solid portable rhythm game that was more addictive than I expected.