Sequences complicate were you to choose Medium as a starting point, you'd probably fail completely. Up the ante to Medium difficulty, and things toughen with a fourth fret brought into play, and a further five songs at the end of the Medium Career - including the ferocious Bark At The Moon, which is really quite testing. You find your fingers reacting much more naturally, you settle into a particular style of strumming (some people just go down, some just up, the pros alternate up and down), and you start to really enjoy some of the sequences. Starred notes contribute to Star Power, which doubles your multiplier.īut, with practice, it really comes. Even so, as you move toward some of the latter songs - Queens of the Stone Age's ‘No One Knows’ in particular - you find yourself struggling to keep up.
On Easy, most are just that - you're only asked to use three frets, chords are rare and the button sequences are quite memorable and repetitive. Y'see, Harmonix is very good at these beatmatching games, which is another reason Guitar Hero is more than a mere gimmick: the underlying game is actually brilliant, and not just because it makes you feel like you're playing a guitar blah blah etc., but because it's got a brilliant difficulty curve and a rewarding structure.Ĭareer mode is split into four difficulty levels, and each gives you banks of licensed (cover) songs to play through in groups of five - usually asking you to complete four of each set to unlock the next lot. Guitar Hero is unlikely to make you faint (and, to be fair, my diet had more to do with the abovementioned episode than Instant Repeater '99), but you might find your hand going a bit claw-like after hours spent gripping the neck to try and flick between those tricky chord sequences. So obviously I immediately fainted, was carried out, and missed the rest of the show. There I witnessed Swedish rockers The Soundtrack of Our Lives crash and bang their way through two and a half fantastic songs. I certainly want to play guitar.Īs I grew up, my tastes hardened in certain areas, and one day I found myself in a London venue called 93 Feet East with a couple of friends. To return to my own story, my experience with Chesney Hawkes was probably defining - I immediately ran hundreds of miles in the opposite direction, developing a taste for men with guitars, beards and Marlboro voice boxes. Maintain a sequence and build up a multiplier. When you do it on something that asks for the same hand shapes and actions you'd associate with a guitar, psychologically you feel like that's what you're playing. You can do it on a Dual Shock using a mixture of face buttons and d-pad, but it's not the same. As beats flow past, you don't just hit a button you hold the right fret and then strum. If you tried to play the game Harmonix has designed here any other way, it wouldn't be anywhere near as fun. It's a beatmatching game, but it's not just "with" a fancy peripheral, it's dependent upon it. "Isn't it just a beatmatching game with a fancy peripheral?" someone asked the other day.
"Gimmick" is the wrong word for it, though it's obviously being thrown about. Like Harmonix's previous games FreQuency and Amplitude, it's about pressing buttons to match beats, but instead of using the joypad you're holding down one of five coloured fret buttons and strumming an up/down guitar string, occasionally reaching for the whammy bar or throwing the neck skyward to launch into "Star Power" mode for more points.
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Whether you're playing it alone or passing around the peripheral - a 2/3 size Gibson SG guitar that plugs into your PS2 - you can't help but tap your foot, wave the guitar around and, in some cases, slide violently along your laminate floor into a stack of DVDs. Guitar Hero, then, is a bit of a salvation. Yes, I have seen Chesney Hawkes live in concert. On the stage in front of us, a walking mole. See, my "rock history" begins, aged 10, with me standing in an auditorium with my Mum and my sister. It seems to be the law that if you review Guitar Hero, you have to begin by talking about your own connection to the world of music.
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