Live mode consists of the game’s Career mode, where you play as the guitarist for bands performing at two fictional music festivals. These may as well have been two separate games. Guitar Hero Live is split into two sections: Live and TV. On the whole, the new controller, at least the ones shipping now, are quite good. It has that traditional clicky feel that all Guitar Hero hardware have had. Maybe a bit too responsive in some cases, as I’ve dropped combos by accidentally brushing up against an upper or lower button while transitioning from chord to chord. The buttons feel good, they don’t squeak, and they’re very responsive. ![]() That doesn’t appear to be the case with the controller I have now. The buttons didn’t feel particularly good and there was quite a bit of squeaking from them if you hit them at an off angle. The launch hardware seems to have had some issues. One shortly after launch, and one that came with the copy of the game I bought just now. To play all of those fancy notes, there is a new guitar controller. The new controller doesn’t look all that different, but it is. Guitar Hero Live does a nice job of keeping the difficulty curve reasonable, which will keep a lot of folks from giving up on it. When you move to advanced or expert difficulties you’ll get more complex note and chord patterns as well as faster scrolling charts to accommodate the extra notes. This wasn’t too intimidating at that difficulty, and it didn’t feel overwhelming for me. When you play on regular difficulty you will start to see shades of how challenging the game can be, with black/white chord combinations, barre chord transitions, as well as a few good hammer-on and pull-off sections depending on the song. When you first start playing it, sure, things seem easy enough, especially on the casual or basic difficult level. It doesn’t sound like much of a change, in fact at first it might seem like they’ve made the game simpler to appeal to a wider audience and that there’s no challenge to be had with the new system. The top three buttons correspond to black notes, the bottom three to white notes. The five colored fret buttons have been replaced by two rows of three buttons. The gameplay has changed significantly since the last time we’ve had our hands on a plastic axe. This brings me to the key difference between Guitar Hero Live and its predecessors. It isn’t, it’s just not what series vets are used to. Whether you like (or have ever heard of) the bands on the soundtrack is a personal thing, so it’s a bit unfair to say the soundtrack is bad. The game definitely favors the more pop-rock genres, at least as far as the on-disc tracks go. They’re clearly trying to appeal to a younger audience with the inclusion of acts like Eminem, OneRepublic, and Fall Out Boy, but there’s some good classic rock tracks on there as well. The game features 42 on-disc songs that skew more towards the late 90’s and 2000’s in terms of musical eras. In the past it focused on the hard rock to metal genres, but with this new installment to the series FreeStyle Games have opted to take a much broader approach to the song catalog. Guitar Hero Live is a solid music game with a solid soundtrack. Word is that Guitar Hero Live will have a large presence at E3 2015.Everything looks very familiar, until you look a little closer. Full details on songs will be on the way in the future. The song list will include bands such as The Black Keys, Fall Out Boy, The Killers, The Rolling Stones, Skrillex, and Green Day. The game is being developed by the Activision-owned company Freestyle Games, who previously worked on the DJ Hero franchise and the Wii U launch title Sing Party. ![]() If you play well, you'll, hopefully, feel like a rock star. If you play poorly, your bandmates will get angry and the crowd will riot. ![]() The hook for Guitar Hero Live is that you play in the first-person with an FMV band and audience around you. Unfortunately, this new controller prevents old controllers, as well as old songs and DLC, from being used. Guitar Hero Live will launch this fall for $99.99 with a new guitar that has two rows of buttons in black and white instead of the traditional five-button setup. After a five-year hiatus, Guitar Hero will make its return this fall and the Wii U will get to jam along.
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