Over the past few years, Activision has married the worlds of music and gaming with the phenomenally popular Guitar Hero series, which includes versions on all current-gen gaming platforms. The company, and developers like Vicarious Visions, who developed the upcoming Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits for the DS, has been committed to hiring folks with serious musical pedigree. Development teams are loaded with talent, and sometimes, the developers' extracurricular musical exploits make it into the games.
IGN recently sat down with Jason Willey, Audio Designer for Vicarious Visions, and one half of S.U.P.R.A.H.U.M.A.N. – Protoshredanoid, the band responsible for the Modern Hits theme. The song plays on the DS version of the game (due out June 9) and is also available via the Guitar Hero World Tour music store as a free download. Willey dishes on the creation of the track, impossible Guitar Hero challenges, and what's next for Protoshredanoid.
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GoozerNation author Ryan Johnson loves delving into the Value Bin and Available Now sections of Goozex to find a game that perhaps was wanted back in the day, but wasn't purchased because it was just too much of a risk. Last time in, he found Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades for a mere 100 Goozex points. While it was a bit pricey back in the day, this was an unpassable deal. Is the game worth searching out? Click in and learn!
Craig Hasselback writes: "Activision just continues finding new ways to go from the popular publisher that stayed the course and rose to number one, to being the big jerk that is too big for their own britches as my grandpa would say. Since becoming the number publisher, Activision has done everything possible to piss off gamers."
Well sadly, until the average gamer realizes that they are getting screwed over, Activision is going to be number 1 for a while(as much as I hate to say it).........
... it seems they can.
You need to get the message across with your wallet!
If you LOVE gaming, and if you HATE the way Activision is doing business: DON'T BUY ACTIVISION GAMES (or buy them used) and certainly DON'T BUY THEIR DLC!
It's THAT simple!
Amen. Honestly all the major pubs are starting to become jacked up. Take-Two with the DLC on BioShock 2's disc. EA with selling "DLC" that unlocks content in sports games instead of playing to earn it.
They're all borderline A-holes
Overcharging is the problem. Dragon Age Origins is one of my favorite games but the dlc is overpriced. dlc should cost a few dollars or it should be free.
D+PAD Magazine Writes:
By now videogamers will be well versed not just in the mechanics of guitar-based music games, but the entire critical discourse that surrounds them. It's almost as though this review doesn't need to exist; here's the introduction, there'll be the odd paragraph on how this is just glorified DLC dressed up as a standalone disc, and a little bit on the odd changes that may have been made since Band Hero and Guitar Hero 5 were released just six months ago. The only section that betrays the shifting fortunes of this once dominant and financially phenomenal genre will be the one that focuses on falling sales and drifting consumer interests – a far cry from the notices of 2008, when Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour were set to launch and everything was still so exciting.