"Innovate and revolutionize the music genre once again, just as Harmonix did with the original Rock Band, Rock Band 2 and The Beatles: Rock Band."Hmm... not sure how 'The Beatles: Rock Band' revolutionised the music genre. Beautiful & lovingly put together - yes, but revolutionary? I seriously hope they don't go down the 'teaches you how to play real guitar' route as suggested by Dhani Harrison - son of former Beatle George Harrison, in an interview with the Chicago Tribune. He said,
"I'm working on 'Rock Band 3' and making the controllers more real so people can actually learn how to play music while playing the game. Give me a couple years, it's going to happen."I hope not. Sometimes you just want to create a game that anyone can get into and just have escapist fun, and not feel like they're in Rock School. If I wanted to learn how to play real guitar I would have taken 'real' guitar lessons by now.
In other music instrument based videogame related news, music industry-born publisher/developer Seven45 Studios is to 'evolve the band game genre with a new game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 that uses a real six string guitar as controller'. It'll be called 'Power Gig: Rise of the SixString', and as they said, will feature a real 6 string guitar as the controller.The guitar features Seven45’s proprietary technology that can distinguish and recognise gamers’ input all along the guitar, "making the guitars as easy to pick up and play as any other band game button controllers". They also include all the guts of an electric guitar so players can plug their SixString guitars into any standard amp to jam with their friends.
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