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Ubisoft's Rocksmith Will Use Real Guitars

Posted on Tuesday, March 15 @ 13:14:20 Eastern by Bill_Ulleseit


A lot of games have made the promise of really teaching you how to play guitar. There was the oh so painfully bad Rise of the Six String, and we're still waiting on the Rock Band 3 Strat just went on sale a couple weeks ago, months after the games launch. And now Senior VP of Sales at Ubisoft, Tony Key went as far as saying that their upcoming music game "will create a new generation of guitar players." The reason? They're going to let you use any guitar you fucking want to (as long as it's electric, of course).

Set for a fall 2011 release on Xbox 360 and PS3, Rocksmith is looking to reach out to everyone from the guitar n00b to the advanced finger wizard master and will feature mini-games that will "hone in on specific skills.". Not much is being said about the games 45 song set list just yet other than it will feature tracks by Nirvana, David Bowie, The Animals and The Rolling Stones.

You would think that the recent collapse of the Guitar Hero series would inspire some fear in such a venture at this point as the rhythm game genre has long breathed its last breath as king of all genres but Key went on to state that "Guitar Hero is a party game. Rocksmith is a music experience."

Is that some sort of hint to Jimi Hendrix being in the game or am I really going to become a better guitarist because of Rocksmith?

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  • Rinnon
    Rinnon
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Mar 15th, 2011 at 10:52 pm
    Teaching someone to play an instrument is a tough thing to do, even in the best of circumstances. I think it's a noble goal, trying to help someone learn to play a real guitar... but the problem is that when you try too hard to make a game of it, you lose sight of the greater goal... which is of course to reach the point where you can turn the game off and still rock out. But can you make an educational piece of software that is still going to be fun? Should being fun even be a concern, or should being an extremely potent educational tool be the primary directive?
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  • Rinnon
    Rinnon
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Mar 15th, 2011 at 10:52 pm
    I came to a realization that Pro Keys is NOT going to teach me how to play the keyboard. I really thought it would until I was getting beyond Medium on it. Started to realize that... I wasn't learning chords, I wasn't learning how to read music, I wasn't even learning proper finger positioning. I was just learning how to do Pro Keys on Rockband. Naive of me to think I could learn how to play the Piano with the help of a Video Game, but I was really hoping it would be the case. I'm not holding my breath this new "music experience" is going to be much different than that.
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  • MrrClean
    MrrClean
    Joined: Aug 2010
    Posted: Mar 16th, 2011 at 10:36 am
    Yeah.... I think I'll take my real Ibanez guitar and plug it into my real Marshall amp and play real music...
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