Game Revolution: "Guitar Hero is an incredibly fun game. Even though I'm practically tone deaf when it comes to music, I managed to etch out plenty of enjoyment out of the first two installments of that franchise. Unfortunately, Rhythm Zone is basically a defective copy of Guitar Hero that strips most of the features from that game."
IG: "There are so many music-based games out there now. It seems like everyone wants a piece of that pie. Sonic Boom Games is throwing their musical hat in the ring and going for it. In the style of Guitar Hero Rhythm Zone , the game is available on STEAM or as a Amazon.com download. I was looking forward to the game, it has its very brief moment…then it becomes a bit of a disappointment. I can see though that for a nitch group, they can actually find the game more fun than I did."
GamerNode: "We've seen quite a few titles in the rhythm genre that use your own music as content. Both Audiosurf and Beat Hazard take your tracks and create unique levels. Both games are more about taking your music and forming unique content for its main gameplay; Rhythm Zone aims to use your music to form playable audio tracks within the band-game framework."
CheatCC says, "Games like Guitar Hero are fun because they allow gamers to feel like they're playing the guitar without actually, you know, learning to play the guitar. To give someone that feeling, developers need to spend the time sorting out each song's guitar track and assembling a note track that matches. As of now, there's no way for a computer to take a random song, find the guitars, and create a plausible note track from scratch. Seen purely as a matter of technology, Rhythm Zone might be a useful first step in changing that. But this idea has a long way to go before it poses any threat to the rhythm-game genre's heavy hitters."
True enough. We don't need another hero.