GH Live mode puts you onstage, looking out: you get a heart stopping first person perspective as a real crowd reacts to the notes you play.
We were making your brain compute a color that it didn't need to," said creative director Jamie Jackson, notes Wired. FreeStyleGames have reinvented the legendary Guitar Hero franchise, with two innovative new gameplay modes and an all new guitar controller. "We were giving you too much information that you didn't actually need, because your fingers are always in position. Fully equipped with two parallel rows of three buttons, beginners will use the bottom three buttons, medium-level players will use both rows to create chord combinations and experts will master complex finger arrangements.īehold the new guitar controller for #GuitarHeroLive! Two rows, three buttons - easier to play, harder to master. Further information on artists will be released at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in June.Īdjustments on the guitar controller have been made to better suit skill levels and stray from the horizontal color-coded buttons.
The track list length remains unknown, but songs will update automatically and feature a cluster of hit artists including The Black Keys and My Chemical Romance. Confirmed artists include The Black Keys, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Gary Clark, Jr., Green Day, Ed Sheeran, The War on Drugs, The. The closer you move to the crowd, the less you will hear the drums. Guitar Hero Live is coming in Fall 2015 for 99 USD. Players match notes that scroll on-screen to colored fret buttons on the controller.
This adjustment places players in front of the audience, allowing them to boo you when you miss a few notes while your band mates shoot nasty looks in your direction.įurthermore, the game is designed to monitor the player in relation to the band on stage and the crowd straight ahead. Guitar Hero is a series of music rhythm game video games first released in 2005, in which players use a guitar -shaped game controller to simulate playing primarily lead, bass guitar, and rhythm guitar across numerous songs. In the latest update, users are introduced to a new, 24-hour music video network, GHTV, and will be able to play in a first-person point of view.Īctivision declared GHTV "the world's first playable music video network," giving players the option to challenge users worldwide and to play along to official music videos.ĭeparting from the 2005, third-person point of view, Guitar Hero Live puts the player in the studded shoes of the rock star. Like others have mentioned, there are literally 1000s of rock band and guitar hero stems out there that you can remix into. It will feature, among other bands, The Rolling Stones, Green Day and Fall Out Boy.įreeStyleGames, the same designers from DJ Hero, developed the $99.99 game, reports Rolling Stone. Although it has been a decade since the original Guitar Hero made its debut, Activision will reprise the instrument-based video game in the fall with Guitar Hero Live.