No matter your skill level, I think the four difficulties on offer will make Live suitable for any rocker.Īs evidenced by a dedicated button on the new guitar that takes you straight to the mode, the meat and potatoes of Live is in GHTV.
Expert kicked my ass… but admittedly, it always has. I found myself switching between Regular and Advanced depending on the intensity of the song. For review purposes, I tried to fly through difficulties – and shouldn’t have. In terms of the difficulty of gameplay, you’ll probably need to play on Casual mode for a little while to ditch old muscle memory and teach yourself some new tricks, but it does get very easy pretty quickly. More importantly, it’s a necessary activity to complete, because career mode is used to unlock each of the 42 in-game songs for quickplay later on. While the FMV sequences are a little generic, it’s fun enough. From there, you can continue with the title’s career mode, taking you through music festivals in more three-song gigs. Live’s tutorial is a nice little way to ease you into getting note locations straight in your head, moving onto Hero Power and the like before setting you off on a three-song gig to get the flow of the game. It took a couple more songs to get my fingers to work with my brain after that. As a veteran of the franchise, I found the new note path easy enough to follow, though it did take a couple of songs to really get the mantra of, “hollow is top, filled is bottom” into my head. Playing right-handed, the top row of buttons is identified with a hollow plectrum (or pick) symbol, and the buttons below a filled-in one. As notes are displayed in black and white, colour-blind players should be at a level playing field with those who aren’t. Power chords, where you need to hit a button on the top and bottom row at the same time, are displayed in almost a ying-and-yang like fashion. That doesn’t mean the need for nimble fingers has been done away with, mind you. This time around, you’ve two rows of three buttons right at the top of the neck, meaning everything’s in easy reach. Despite its learning curve, I appreciate and adore it far more than past peripherals. Even with my large hands, trying to hit the bottom end of the old five-button GH guitars proved almost impossible. The new guitar takes some getting used to. Whichever stream you play, one thing is clear: Guitar Hero Live is super fun. In GHTV, the game’s new streaming service, your real/fake band is done away with and it’s just you and a note path over top of said music videos both new and old.
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When playing sets in the career-based offline experience - the bit of Live actually called Live - you’re part of a rough-and-tumble band, out on a stage trying to impress fans densely clustered in a rockin’ moshpit. While playing you’re either in first-person mode, on stage and rocking out or playing over the top of a music video. You can pair up a phone to sing along, but Guitar Hero Live is primarily about being a lead guitarist.
While there is some singing, for the most part it’s just you, some video, a six-button guitar and – most importantly - the music. Gone is the bass guitar, drums are no more and what’s left is a Guitar Hero meets Singstar experience. It was wise of Activision to let Guitar Hero have a bit of a break, and even smarter to bring it back as something different altogether Guitar Hero Live. We washed our hands of yearly releases that stuck to the same, tired formula and Guitar Hero quietly, yet abruptly died a shadow of its former self. Representing the epitome of franchise fatigue, gamers got collectively sick of the band simulator. Sadly, not a lot of time passed before Guitar Hero just stopped doing it for me and I wasn’t alone. Not long after, I splurged and bought the whole shebang – and let me tell you, I was awesome on those plastic drums. Experiencing the franchise for the first time (hard to believe, right?), I went from buying the guitar bundle to heading back out to the store that very same day to buy the previous games in the franchise. Suddenly I feel like it’s 2008 all over again.
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