Guitar Hero (VI) Warriors of Rock (Multi-platform)

Demo's out today, though I am enraged my Microshaft's policies on not allowing Xbox Live silver members to download demos until a few weeks after they come out. What a load of junk.

Anyway, no thread for it yet.

Game is looking somewhat good so far.

Current set list (according to Wikipedia)
"2112 Pt. 1 – Overture" Rush
"2112 Pt. 2 – The Temples of Syrinx" Rush
"2112 Pt. 3 – Discovery" Rush
"2112 Pt. 4 – Presentation" Rush
"2112 Pt. 5 – Oracle: The Dream" Rush
"2112 Pt. 6 – Soliloquy" Rush
"2112 Pt. 7 – Grand Finale" Rush
"Again" Flyleaf
"Aqualung" Jethro Tull
"Bat Country" Avenged Sevenfold
"Been Caught Stealing" Jane's Addiction
"Black Rain" Soundgarden
"Black Widow of La Porte" John 5 featuring Jim Root
"Bleed It Out" Linkin Park
"Bloodlines" Dethklok
"Bodies" Drowning Pool
"Bohemian Rhapsody" Queen
"Burn" Deep Purple
"Burnin' for You" Blue Öyster Cult
"Call Me the Breeze" (Live) Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Calling" Strung Out
"Chemical Warfare" Slayer
"Cherry Bomb" a Runaways !The Runaways
"Children of the Grave" Black Sabbath
"Cryin'" Aerosmith
"Dance, Dance" Fall Out Boy
"Dancing Through Sunday" AFI
"Deadfall" Snot
"Fascination Street" Cure !The Cure
"Feel Good Drag" !"The Feel Good Drag" Anberlin
"Feels Like the First Time" Foreigner
"Fortunate Son" Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Free Ride" Edgar Winter Group !The Edgar Winter Group
"Fury of the Storm" DragonForce
"Get Free" Vines !The Vines
"Ghost" Slash featuring Ian Astbury
"Graduate" Third Eye Blind
"Hard to See" Five Finger Death Punch
"Holy Wars… The Punishment Due" Megadeth
"How You Remind Me" Nickelback
"I Know What I Am" Band of Skulls
"I'm Broken" Pantera
"I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" My Chemical Romance
"If You Want Peace... Prepare for War" Children of Bodom
"Indians" Anthrax
"Interstate Love Song" Stone Temple Pilots
"It's Only Another Parsec..." RX Bandits
"Jet City Woman" Queensrÿche
"Lasso" Phoenix
"Listen to Her Heart" Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
"Losing My Religion" R.E.M.
"Love Gun" Kiss
"Lunatic Fringe" Red Rider
"Machinehead" Bush
"Modern Day Cowboy" Tesla
"Money for Nothing" (single version) Dire Straits
"Motivation" Sum 41
"Move It On Over" (Live) George Thorogood and the Destroyers
"Nemesis" Arch Enemy
"No More Mr. Nice Guy" a Alice Cooper
"No Way Back" Foo Fighters
"Outsider" !"The Outsider" Perfect Circle !A Perfect Circle
"Paranoid" (Live) Metallica & Ozzy Osbourne
"Pour Some Sugar on Me" (Live) Def Leppard
"Psychosocial" Slipknot
"Ravenous" Atreyu
"Re-Ignition" (Live) Bad Brains
"Renegade" Styx
"(You Can Still) Rock in America" Night Ranger
"Rockin' in the Free World" Neil Young
"Savior" Rise Against
"Scumbag Blues" Them Crooked Vultures
"Self Esteem" Offspring !The Offspring
"Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants" Dillinger Escape Plan !The Dillinger Escape Plan
"Seven Nation Army" White Stripes !The White Stripes
"Sharp Dressed Man" (Live) ZZ Top
"Slow Hands" Interpol
"Speeding" Steve Vai
"Stray Cat Blues" The Rolling Stones
"Sudden Death" Megadeth
"Suffocated" Orianthi
"Theme from Spider-Man" Ramones
"There's No Secrets This Year" Silversun Pickups
"This Day We Fight!" Megadeth
"Tick Tick Boom" The Hives
"Ties That Bind" Alter Bridge
"Tones of Home" Blind Melon
"Unskinny Bop" Poison
"Uprising" Muse
"Waidmanns Heil" Rammstein
"We're Not Gonna Take It" Twisted Sister
"What Do I Get?" Buzzcocks
"Wish" Nine Inch Nails

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I tried the demo out earlier, and I must say the quest mode is an interesting departure for the series. Songs are a bit more challenging than previous installments (especially World Tour). The songs in the demo are Black Sabbath's "Children of the Grave", Foo Fighters' "No Way Back", and Slash's "Ghost", with Dethklok's "Bloodlines" rounding out the set list. For the first time I'm actually looking forward to a Guitar Hero game.

Played the demo on drums. Even though I was Silver, my cousin was a Gold member so he downloaded the demo and I got access to the demo.

Drums is very challenging for Expert+ based on what I've seen.

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Played the Demo on hard Guitar, god something felt different, the song selection felt more like the early GH games than the band-oriented ones.

That was exactly what Neversoft wanted to convey. They wanted it to be more like Guitar Hero III in terms of song selection.

Very excited for this game myself; Guitar Hero games on the Wii are always excellent thanks to the developer Vicarious Visions. I hope that Konami can take a leaf out of their book and give Wii owners proper DLC and whatnot for future versions of their own games.

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Also, wow; I guess Activision likes making up for how Konami has tortured Europe so much, is it me or was this released there a few days before the US release?

Yes, it was. Good week for us, that, what with DR2 and all.

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Despite their drawbacks, Activision are very good at game releases and usually treat all regions fairly in that regard.

I've completed most of Quest mode. Despite not being a Rush fan myself, 2112 was presented brilliantly and the added storyline narrated by the members of the band is like a musical opera or sci fi story.

Spoilers below for those that want some details:

The last venue is very difficult. I actually ended up going through on vocals just so that I could pass it and reach the end. Despite the difficulties it is very fun and gives a great effect of awesomeness and achievement. Gene Simmons who narrates the game also turns out to be the actual Demi-God of Rock (nothing major but I wasn't expecting it) and you play through two songs to battle the "Beast" who then becomes your last venue "The Beast Dethroned" (you ride on his back and it's strangely cool looking) for the Demi-God's bonus songs.

Then you can go back and play through all of the songs in each venue again as a "Domination Mode". It's brilliant just because you get EVERY POWER IN THE GAME AT ONCE which means that as soon as you have enough energy in the star power gauge you can activate it and pretty much play through the whole of any song without it ending and with a huge multiplier. The maximum number of stars you can get is 35, then the "recovery" stars you charge up with Axel's power are added in at the end to make up the remaining 5 for 40 total stars per song. It seriously adds to playability because you could be there ages earning all the stars in each venue.

I actually honestly wish that DDR could be more like this sometimes because it's one of the most fun music and rhythm games I've played, probably since Elite Beat Agents.

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Need I mention the Rocky Horror Picture Show DLC is epic win?

I almost bought WoR to get instruments to accompany my RB3 purchase, but ended up getting The Beatles one instead. Is Neversoft still ridiculously overcharting everything? Have things gotten better since World Tour (ugh)?

Now that I just found out there is Rocky Horror Picture Show DLC, I wanna buy this game. Now to figure out how a drum controller will actually fit in my room...

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The Rock Band one is actually not that big (about the width of my office chair), and you can always de-telescope it and such for storage

I've actually seen the setup over at my friend's house. I know it may not be that big, but I should of said it's more about where I can store it.
My TV is also like not even a foot from the ground so finding a distance to not make it so awkward to play will be troublesome.

But yeah I really wanna play Time Warp. I can't get the song out of my head after they played the song twice a day for a week on our PA system ( don't ask ).

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every note they ever placed was properly placed on a sound, therefore nothing was over charted. if you dont like power chords then shut up and dont play guitar hero.

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Okay, I picked up the game today by sacrificing some Christmas money I had gotten from some relatives, so far;

Good things
-We've had an excellent song selection so far, lots of good stuff.
-Graphics/engine looks way better than World Tour for sure
-Power-ups and Quickplay challenges are an interesting idea

Bad things
-Gimmicks?
-This game should be renamed Chord Hero at the rate we're going on some songs.
-I'm also unsure about how they arranged the career this time. I'm not quite sure that the sorting of the songs is difficulty based here, but thematic.

(Since the GH Is Dead thread got locked) -

NEWS:

Activision says Guitar Hero franchise "not cancelled", is put on "hiatus"

To summarize, the Guitar Hero franchise is not as officially dead as we thought it was back in the February report. Activision now says that the franchise will be put in a "long nap" to focus more on other games like Call of Duty (no surprise there...)

So basically, there won't be any GH games for 2011...that's a relief, it should deserve a good break from the constant releases it's been having over the past 4 years now, does this mean more DLC is likely? Who knows, i'll have more on this news as time passes on. This is probably going to bring smiles to many GH fans out there knowing the franchise isn't ENTIRELY dead.

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In before new GH is revealed at E3 (as just Guitar Hero, no version indicator or anything), we don't see anything more of it until over a year later, when they shift it to one platform and reveal it at a fan event in a completely rebooted state, then release it on one console only, followed by the rest a few months too late.

Either that, or the whole "GH is over" thing was just a facade for a massive reboot. Shaking up the people who forgot about the franchise in preparation for the new generation.

Doubt it, from the news report it says that there won't be any GH titles for this year, sure there actually MAY be a teaser trailer for next year's game but i also doubt THAT being shown at E3 2011. I also don't think it would be economically correct to release the game for one console, then slowly releasing it to other consoles as the months go by, almost every major game that has been coming out has been released on mutliple platforms on Day 1. With the exception of DLC (hurr durr Black Ops DLc first comes on Xbox Live).

This could really be the case. Vicarious Visions is pretty much gone, so who else but to get another developer (i.e. Neversoft) to re-create a new Guitar Hero series? You guys do relaize that they have trademarked the name "Guitar Villian" for about 1 or 2 years now, heck maybe even more. I have a feeling we may either be seeing a new GH reboot game for 2012 or Guitar Villian, which would probably be an "M" rated music rhythm game due to excessive language and suggestive themes and other stuff to fit with it's "name".

....lololol, i wouldn't be surprised to see a DJ Villian soon too, but how in the hell would that work?

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