Activision has confirmed that a new title in the Guitar Hero franchise will be released this summer. Guitar Hero: Rocks will be available exclusively for PS2 and there are currently no plans to bring it to Xbox 360.
Read more in this Guitar Hero Rocks Headline.
Originally Posted by Dareos
Huh?
Oh aye... but to be honest, he has a point...
If he's a fairly mainstream music fan and he doesn't recognise the tunes, then how is the selection supposed to appeal tot he mainstream user.
You could be elitist and say that it's not supposed to and this is for rockers only, but to be honest I think the Harmonix boys are getting a tad blinkered... or maybe it a lack of willingness to cough up the license fees for the better known tracks...
I could be wrong and maybe more mainstream stuff just isn't suited to GH games but I don't see how.... and it still doesn't explain the lack of Stairway, not when we had Jessica on GH2...
Yeah, they could go for more mainstream tracks, but I think they now have brand power behind them with two successful games and can now "teach" people about great bands they may not have heard of before.
You also got to weigh in that the songs have to be fun to play, more mainstream bands and popular songs like the Foo Fighters and Smoke on the Water might sound good, but the songs are so boring to play on GH.
I think GH 1 and 2 had it right though, some well known songs, or some lesser known songs by well known bands mixed in with some stuff most people would never have heard of.
As for stairway, not sure why they're leaving that one out, perhaps they want to find a great vocalist first.
The reason theres no stairway or metallica is that neither band like to license out their tunes for games and films lightly, same goes for many other "mainstream" rock acts so its not necasarily red octanes fault.
The listing of tunes for this latest incarnation seems fairly in keeping with it being an eighties version, its missing van halen, motley crue, metallica and slayer but the licensing for tracks by said bands still may not be confirmed.
Aye I agree Knoxy, I mean, where's Jump? Surely that's gotta have one of the most difficult solos out there?
Thought this was called Guitar Hero - Rock the 80's hence the old songs on the track list ?
Most of the songs keyboard based though, personally I'd go with hot for teacher or eruption if I was choosing a van halen track.
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