MTV: Rock Band
November 25, 2007 by Jo Minor · Leave a Comment
MTV’s newly-launched video game is likely to place the ban on the popular Guitar Hero series. The game will allow 4 players to simultaneously play the guitars,bass,drums and sing the vocal parts of the songs. As with Guitar Hero, every note hit correctly will earn the band points to advance further into the game.
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the ’80s
November 23, 2007 by Jo Minor · Leave a Comment
The makers of the game, Activision Inc., are in trouble. The Romantics have sued the game house for creating a sound-alike of their 1980 hit song ‘What I Like About You’.? Strangely, Activison Inc. was given the rights to create an imitation of the song, but somehow the recording sounded too much like the original version. Oh well, we knew this Guitar Hero fad would cause some nonsense, but this is pretty ridiculous.
Activision?s Guitar Hero III
October 26, 2007 by Jo Minor · Leave a Comment
The successful guitar hero video game series will see its third instalment, aptly titled Guitar Hero III, sometime at the end of the year.
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The game has become a cultural phenomenon. Bars have held “Guitar Hero” competitions and fans have uploaded videos of their best performances to the Internet. A search for “Guitar Hero” on YouTube returns 76,100 results.
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The latest instalment will contain songs from Metallica, Guns ?n Roses and The Rolling Stones, among others, and the game is expected to sell 285,000 copies in its first four days, and nearly 2.3 million copies in total according to online prediction market the simExchange.
