IGN: It's a scary world for music games in 2010. Last year, publishers went for broke with release after release - Activision in particular pushed out Guitar Hero: Metallica, Guitar Hero 5, Guitar Hero: Smash Hits, Band Hero, and Guitar Hero: Van Halen - and audiences largely stayed at home. This year, Activision has curbed Guitar Hero's touring schedule to just one game: Warriors of Rock. The last Guitar Hero title to be developed by Neversoft, it's been called a return to the series roots. Sadly, Neversoft doesn't seem to have gotten within sight of the tree. From a confused setlist that doesn't jibe with the game's heavy metal aesthetic to wildly varying difficulty and a lack of accessiblilty that might make it the hardest Guitar Hero game in recent memory for casual players to get into, I was left with a final question that I was never able to answer - why Warriors of Rock is here?
"Going back a few console generations, gaming experienced a surge of rhythm-based games. From shredding out in Guitar Hero to hitting the floor in Dance Central, game started crossing the line between general, real world practices and digital entertainment. Like most other genres, rhythm games became saturated and dipped off in popularity." --PlayStation Enthusiast
Stop these articles, christmas is over. At the least come up with a different title, I mean its January 4 already.
It's already January 4th. Hence the title on the 11th day of Christmas.
It's a series of titles referencing the days after the 25th which are the 12 days of Christmas.
Remember a few years ago, when all the cool kids were hooked to the ‘Guitar Hero’ and ‘Rock Band’ games. It gave a chance for all the wannabe rockstars to do some of their favorite posing without an air guitar. Admittedly, it was a fun experience that revived the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll for a new generation.
The rumors are swirling, so The Geek Culture has a few suggestions on how Activision can bring back Guitar Hero right.
Looks like Activision has killed GH... thank God. Next - CoD.
Good bye Activision. It was nice knowing you. All of you except Kotick
They gotta stop trying to milk this for money I'll end up hating.
The scores from the categories average out to be 6.9. The sound category, obviously the most important in a music game, is the highest with an 8. Not to mention they apparently removed 2 points for a bad narrator. Just me or are these scores a bit wonky?
LOL! How funny is it that this bad review of GH comes so soon after Activision bashed EA?
RIP Music games..... I hope.