Linkin Park Has Teamed Up With Artificial Life To Create An Awesome Game, For Your iPhone

Artificial Life and Linkin Park have joined forces to create a Linkin Park 8-Bit Rebellion, an iPhone game that just might be entertaining for longer than five minutes.

The game story starts with the evil PixxelKorp who steals Linkin Park’s music. Naturally, you’re up to the quest to retrieve musical balance in the world of rock.

Linkin Park’s game won’t be a rhythm music title, but rather an action-adventure. There will be community features such as friends lists, IM chats, in-app messaging and your own space to unlock your own items whilst playing the game.

Items include new songs, such as Blackbirds — a title never released by the band.

“The collaborative process with Artificial Life was exceptional,” says Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda, who worked with the game company to design the characters and score the game. “They were able to turn my sketches and our creative ideas into a living, breathing world that we think gamers will thoroughly enjoy. This game is not just made for Linkin Park fans-anyone will be able to play and enjoy 8-Bit Rebellion.’ My bandmates and I grew up playing games like ‘Metroid,’ ‘Donkey Kong,’ ‘Zelda,’ ‘Space Invaders,’ ‘Mega Man’ and ‘Rygar.’ We wanted this game to have the feel of a vintage game, and a big part of it was the music.”

Original Linkin Park songs will bust a rhythm throughout the game.