Or you can opt for the two-guitar bundle with the game for £124.99, but that’s only available on Xbox One and PS4. Guitar Hero Live with a single guitar and a physical copy of the game costs £74.99 on PS4, PS3, Wii U and Xbox 360, and £79 on Xbox One. Series, the guitars themselves leave something to be desired. This changes as you turn it up to Advanced, so don’t feel like it’s just you if you’re struggling with the rhythms of Regular.Īlthough the design changes are a welcome revamp to the Guitar Hero It’s particularly difficult on the Regular level, strangely enough, as the notes don’t always correspond to the guitar tunes you’ll hear. I did find learning the new control system took quite a while, though. Then being asked to press more than one button simultaneously mimics chord progressions you’d make on a real guitar – albeit less complex. The button positioning makes it feel as though you’re switching between strings on the fret board when you change between black and white notes. ![]() Its still the same formula as before: hit the appropriate button as it hits the line along the bottom of the screen in time with the music. Yes, yes, we know, it’s still an undersized, plastic guitar without strings, but Freestyle Games is definitely onto something here. Plus, Freestyle Games has made sure the Hero Power button is there within pinky’s reach if you’re not feeling rock enough to tilt the whole guitar to activate Hero Power.īut the idea behind switching out the coloured buttons for this new black and white combo is to make the overall gameplay feel more like you’re playing a real guitar. You’ve still got the strum bar, which you’ll need to press to sound the notes, and a whammy bar for bending notes on a whim. Instead, you’ve got a trio of white buttons along the bottom, with three black buttons on the top row. Gone is the more traditional five-coloured button array for two rows of three buttons. Publisher Activision and developer Freestyle Games is totally revamping the game, again after a five year hiatus.īut unlike its rival, Guitar Hero Live is trying to reinvent the musical simulation genre. But October’s spotlight is falling on Guitar Hero Live (and some other major titles). Rock Band returned in September, launching five years after the last series’ entry. But here I am, packing away the Rock Band 4 kit just in time to set up Guitar Hero Live and its redesigned guitars. I never thought 2015 would be the year that saw me spending my weekends rocking out with a plastic guitar again. Game reviewers found the on-disc soundtrack to be weak as it focused too much on more recent musical acts, while praising the wider variety across a larger time period that GHTV offered.Available on PS4 (tested), Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii U Two hundred songs were available at the release of the game, with more added over time, averaging about six brand new songs each week.įreeStyleGames selected on-disc songs from a wider variety of music genres beyond rock music as to provide challenging guitar tracks for players, while their approach to licensing of songs for GHTV enabled them to attract more musical acts to offer their music. GHTV, through in-game rewards and microtransactions, supports the ability to play any song in the library, perform Premium shows where the newest tracks to GHTV will be found, or even unlock all features for a 24-hour period as part of a Party Pass. Instead, the game includes the online Guitar Hero TV ( GHTV) mode modeled after music video channels that players can jump in or out of at any time, playing through ongoing songs in a curated fashion. Guitar Hero Live does not use traditional downloadable content to expand the game and is not backward compatible with previous songs from Guitar Hero games. The game includes 42 songs on the game's disc, presented in sets using full motion video taken from the first-person perspective of the lead guitarist as the background visuals to create an immersive experience. The title is considered a reboot of the series instead of using a five-button guitar-shaped game controller, the game shipped with a six-button controller, arranged in two rows of three aimed to provide more realistic fingering positions than the five-button controller. ![]() The game was released worldwide on 20 October 2015 for these systems as well as the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and iOS devices including the Apple TV. It is the first title in the Guitar Hero series since it went on hiatus after 2011, and the first game in the series available for 8th generation video game consoles ( PlayStation 4, Wii U, and Xbox One). Guitar Hero Live is a 2015 music video game developed by FreeStyleGames and published by Activision.
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