Guitar Hero fever has struck again! This time it has targeted the New Generation consoles and a very familiar game brings with it a lot of new features. To start of, the new controller is a classic designed GH controller coming with some new features as a USB dongle for connectivity and a returning 6 buttons although not the same as before, 3 white buttons on the bottom and the top three black buttons returning from a previous controllers is the Whammy Bar and strumming bar.
The gameplay you've seen in previous GH returns this time with two main modes, the main storyline and GHTV. The main storyline is a very loose story of your character becoming the best guitarist in the world with recordings of concert venues in the real world playing in the background. GHTV is the first ever live network integrated into a video game before with multiple channels, you can choose what is pretty much a radio station and play along with the songs or just listen in. What really shows the power of GH this generation is the seamlessness of it all, jumping in and out of channels on GHTV is easy and quick, with seamless jumpin, jumpout coop.
Where there is innovation, there are steps back aswell. The new interface is very clean with simplistic colors and buttons but it can get confusing at high speeds to what icon is what button especially when Hammer Ons look similar to Hero Power. The lack of practise mode also is a hindrance as with the new button layout, it would have been a great feature to include.
With the cons, comes the pros. The soundtrack is great, ranging from old jazz to new pop with rock, metal and dubstep in between. There really is something for everyone and who knows what else they will add in the future through some playlists in GHTV. What should be noted though is that although Activision haven't said anything about DLC plans the game is littered with all kinds of microtransactions that are a great pain to the casual player but not so much to the hardcoreplayer. There is no reason to save coins to play songs in quickplay as GHTV is completely free and GH Premium is a service to play songs to get other songs and you earn “Plays” by leveling up.
Guitar Hero Live is a competent return to the rhythm game genre with a diverse soundtrack and fun gameplay to boot although microtransactions can ruin the experience sometimes but after giving the game a lot of hate at launch, it isn't as bad as a lot of people said and I look forward to what GH Live brings in the future.
The gameplay you've seen in previous GH returns this time with two main modes, the main storyline and GHTV. The main storyline is a very loose story of your character becoming the best guitarist in the world with recordings of concert venues in the real world playing in the background. GHTV is the first ever live network integrated into a video game before with multiple channels, you can choose what is pretty much a radio station and play along with the songs or just listen in. What really shows the power of GH this generation is the seamlessness of it all, jumping in and out of channels on GHTV is easy and quick, with seamless jumpin, jumpout coop.
Where there is innovation, there are steps back aswell. The new interface is very clean with simplistic colors and buttons but it can get confusing at high speeds to what icon is what button especially when Hammer Ons look similar to Hero Power. The lack of practise mode also is a hindrance as with the new button layout, it would have been a great feature to include.
With the cons, comes the pros. The soundtrack is great, ranging from old jazz to new pop with rock, metal and dubstep in between. There really is something for everyone and who knows what else they will add in the future through some playlists in GHTV. What should be noted though is that although Activision haven't said anything about DLC plans the game is littered with all kinds of microtransactions that are a great pain to the casual player but not so much to the hardcoreplayer. There is no reason to save coins to play songs in quickplay as GHTV is completely free and GH Premium is a service to play songs to get other songs and you earn “Plays” by leveling up.
Guitar Hero Live is a competent return to the rhythm game genre with a diverse soundtrack and fun gameplay to boot although microtransactions can ruin the experience sometimes but after giving the game a lot of hate at launch, it isn't as bad as a lot of people said and I look forward to what GH Live brings in the future.
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