 Guitar Hero - PS2
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Sim |
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1- 2 |
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| PUBLISHER |
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Red Octane |
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| DEVELOPER |
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Harmonix |
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| ESRB |
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T |
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| CREATED |
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03/21/07 |
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You would think that playing musical instruments is an inert talent that someone can posess. Hell, the last instrument I played was my 8th grade big band trumpet, which I still have and break out from time to time for a quick bugle call. Of course, this is a far cry from most's people instruments of choice, the guitar, either acoustic or electric.
Until now.
Guitar Hero comes from a long list of rythym games, that span from greats like Amplitude and duds like DDR country Mix, but regardless of the creed, Guitar Hero is easily in a class of it's own, not because of innovative gameplay, but innovative control scheme.
Graphics-
Realisticly speaking, the games graphics are kind of simple. The player models, which are caricatures and homages to rock greats like Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townsend, Joan Jett and Axl Rose, are cool looking, and have great animation and antics on stage. That being said, the crowds and your bandmates don't have as much fluid movement as you do, but if your paying attention to the graphics...well let's just say you might be missing the fret buttons a lot then. Lastly, the scrolling fret meter that we see (which is very similar to amplitude) is done well, and adss some slight character depending on the player you pick, but is again simple.
Final Score- B
Gameplay-
Guitar Hero rocks. Period! Well ok, a little more in depth. The reason the gameplay is so good is due to the gibson controller, which replicates the guitar with 5 colored fret buttons a whammy stick and a strummer. Playing is easy, hit the stummer and the appropriate fret button when you need to. Sounds easy? Hardly! What makes the game a true challenge is the difficulty. We get easy, which is nothing, medium, which can be trouble for some beginners, hard, which is tought but manageable, and expert...only fools apply!
completing any song on Expert with a 5 star rating is a feat, but completing some of the end songs with 5 stars is even better. The game features 30 liscened tracks, but 15 bonus songs from indie bands and the Black Label Society. Some of the tracks are spot on awesome and staples of the Rock and Roll Genre, like I love Rock and Roll, Crossroads and Godzilla. Others, are kind of out there, like Killer Queen and Stellar. It is a great mix of songs, and it works very well, with numerous groups like Pantera, Cream, Ozzy Osbourne, Sum41, The Ramones and Jimi Hendrix represented. This soundtrack easily makes the game worth a look, even if most of the songs are not the first choices you would pick from the bands and names represented.
Some big names were left out, like Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Guns N Roses and AC/DC (most of which was rectified in the sequal) but regardless, the soundtrack has a great mix of easy and hard for most players, and offers enough challenge to keep going back for more.
My only complaint is multiplayer, as a co-op mode would of been good too. Also a practice mode would be real nice, especially for the final few songs in the game (again, also rectified in the sequal.)
Final Score- A-
Sound- The sound effects of the guitar and the crowds are really good, as well as the monsterous chords of the songs themselves, which are really spot on as well. The lyrics, however, are all covers, and while most are great (Sharp Dressed man and Take Me Out come to mind), some of them are weak and out there (Killer Queen) Also, Hendrix's song in the game, "Spanish Castle Magic", has no lyrics whatsoever. If the covers were slightly better, the score here would be a smidge higher.
Final Score- B+
Overall-
With the great tracks, nice collection of unlockables, and a decent (but flawed) multi-player mode, Guitar Hero is a very strong game indeed, giving you high riffs of playability and tons of fun by yourself and with friends. Here is to Red Octane for the newest kind of the rythm genre. I hope that the game just grows and get's better as we wind on down the road.
Final Score- A-
Overall Score- A- 
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| Posted: May 27th, 2007 at 11:15 am |
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| cpol |
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| Posted: May 27th, 2007 at 11:15 am |
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| cool |
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| Posted: Jul 3rd, 2007 at 4:55 pm |
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| u make reviews for everything |
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| Posted: Oct 15th, 2007 at 9:38 pm |
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| Quite a decent review, but to my knowledge, it's spelled "sequel". ;) |
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