If you love playing your favorite titles on your video game consoles with all of your best friends, you will be thrilled to learn that there are plenty of great music themed multiplayer games that are out there that you can play with a buddy these days, and the best part is that there is tons of selection. When you take a look at most of the multiplayer games that are out for the next generation video game consoles today, many only allow you to play multiplayer games online, and not on the same console with your buddy. However, a new batch of quite a few great music themed multiplayer games actually does just this: you can get your musical instrument shaped controllers ready, and play together as a rock band, or even duke it out with guitar battles, depending upon the games that you are playing. And the best part is that you can do it all on the same console. So while playing multiplayer games can be great fun online, sometimes it is just nice to play with your friends on the same console too.