![]() Its guitar trades the long-standing five button layout for three pairs of buttons stacked on top of each other. Its visuals rely primarily on live action footage rather than traditional game graphics. Thanks to the company for providing CMT a basic game for review consideration.Īlso, check this Reddit Guitar Hero FAQ thread with some excellent details for questions you’ll have that aren’t totally clear on the website.Guitar Hero Live is a complex machine with many moving parts and a lot of new ideas. It’s available for PlayStation 4, PS3, Xbox One, XB360, and Wii U. Guitar Hero Live is available for $99.99 with one guitar and $149.99 for the two guitar bundle. I have that Avril Lavigne track nearly memorized by now, if you need any proof. This could be appealing for serious competitive gamers or people playing alone but honestly, for families I think that the regular Guitar Hero Live mode will be plenty fun enough. More like a video game - one play, then plop down some more change for more chances. While TV mode lets you play an ongoing stream of songs, kind of like a radio station, you can use coins you earn or purchase to play a song of choice on demand, though you don’t actually get to keep that song which is a bummer. ![]() ![]() How you feel about it will depend on how serious you are about your air guitar skills.Īs for that limited playlist, it’s likely because the game makers want you to spend more of your time (and, by extension, your money) playing online in the multiplayer mode, Guitar Hero TV, where leveling up gets you additional powers, levels and tunes to play. Mastering them however is another thing.Īlso, a lot of tracks seem to be chosen for popularity sake, and not necessarily because they have the best guitar licks, which is one of the things that made the original Guitar Hero so beloved. This isn’t an issue for me - I’m not like Ozzy or death! - but I could see how a family could burn through the 40-odd Live mode songs available in a couple hours on Game Night. I’ve also read some reviews that complain about the music set list being somewhat “tame” and limited. The Guitar Hero Live trailer featuring Lenny Kravitz and James Franco is spot on. That might be a little intense for younger kids, but it’s pretty fun for us. Do a bad job and your bandmates, along with the roadies, will give you realistic feedback with well-placed head shakes, stink-eye looks and, of course, a rousing You suck! right to your face to get the message across. Mind, if you don’t keep up with those guitar licks and start messing up the music, that same cheering crowd will turn on you, and fast. Plus, having your bandmates chat and interact with you between your four-song set also makes it feel super real. The front row ticket-holders even hold up signs to root you on. And - best part - it features live-action concert footage, giving you a right-there-on-stage POV shot from the stage, using real audiences pretending to be there to see you and your band, you Rock God/Goddess, you. ![]() There’s no animation here you’re choosing which music festivals you’d like to play and selecting which band you want to jam with. I’m more a fan of Guitar Hero Live Mode for family gaming, however, and it’s fantastic. Still, the upgrades will be worth it for what’s really a whole new gaming experience.īut what makes this game totally fun is that there are two modes - Guitar Hero Live Mode, and Guitar Hero TV Mode, a new online network where you can compete remotely against other friends (or strangers) online. You’ve got to start fresh with new controllers, and lack of backwards compatibility is generally frustrating. The one hiccup however is that any old guitars you may have from the original Guitar Hero won’t work here. Basically, it gives the guitar a nice layer of authenticity allowing you to strum open notes and “play” bar chords. And just in time for a rockin’ family holiday gift if you’ve got tweens or teens at home.įirst, the tracklist (currently 42 songs) has an impressive range: Rage Against the Machine, Rihanna, Kings of Leon, R.E.M., Avril Lavigne, Queen, Katy Perry, Pearl Jam, and of course rock band mainstays like The Who and the Rolling Stones.Īs for the game itself, some of the biggest changes start with the game’s guitar controller which now features two rows of buttons, simulating the frets on the real instrument. Now, here comes Guitar Hero Live, a newer version of the hit music rhythm game to kick things up a few chords. Honestly, haven’t we all rocked out to an air guitar at some point in our lives? (Or maybe this morning in the shower - ahem.) Pretending to be Lenny Kravitz or Joan Jett shredding the axe and professing our love for rock ‘n’ roll out loud got a little less fake and a lot more fun when Guitar Hero stepped to the video game stage 10 years ago.
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