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Activision just confirmed Band Hero and Guitar Hero 5 for launch this autumn.
Band Hero is to carry an E10+ rating, and will feature “top-40 hits” to a “broad family audience”. It’ll use guitar, drums, bass and microphone.
DJ Hero is to include “hip-hop, R&B, Motown, electronica and dance”. And those turntable shots Twittered earlier have just been released as PR.
Guitar Hero 5’s more of the same, basically.
Press release after the break.
GUITAR HERO® ANNOUNCES AUTUMN LINEUP FEATURING GROUNDBREAKING DJ HERO™ TITLE AND NEW GUITAR HERO® 5 AND BAND HERO™ GAMES
Innovative DJ Hero Game Expected To Transform How Consumers Engage with Music * New Guitar Hero 5, DJ Hero and Band Hero Expand the Category with Fun-to-Play Experiences and Innovative New Technologies and Features * Autumn Slate Delivers Largest Variety of Music and Hottest Artists
Thursday 7th May/… Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) is set to once again revolutionise how consumers interact with music by releasing three new titles this fall – DJ Hero™, Guitar Hero® 5 and Band Hero™ – that will redefine the company’s popular music gaming platform. The slate will transform the way consumers enjoy and engage with music by offering the largest variety of music genres, innovative technologies and new social entertainment experiences for existing fans and millions of new consumers who previously have not joined Guitar Hero’s global community of fans.
• The company’s groundbreaking DJ Hero expands Guitar Hero’s signature social gaming to all-new consumers with the addition of diverse music genres including hip-hop, R&B, Motown, electronica and dance. Introducing an all-new innovative turntable controller, DJ Hero transforms players into DJs who rule the club scene by creating original mixes of popular songs and music from the world’s most exciting artists and DJs.
• Letting fans continue to fulfill their rock fantasies, Guitar Hero 5 features the hottest rock and roll artists today as well as classic rock bands and gives players an unprecedented level of control over the way they play the game with the ability to drop in and out of songs and change band members, instruments and difficulty levels on the fly.
• The franchises’ first E10+ rated console game, Band Hero delivers an exciting music collection featuring top-40 hits designed to expand the experience to a new genre and appeal to a broad family audience who can play together on the guitar, drums, bass and microphone. The game builds upon Guitar Hero’s easy-to-play, difficult-to-master signature gameplay and allows novice players and expert fans to join together on their favourite songs.
“Guitar Hero has made music social again and has become one of the most popular ways to experience music,” said Dan Rosensweig, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Guitar Hero franchise. “Today’s fans enjoy a variety of music and are looking for more ways to engage with their favourite songs, artists and fellow fans. These games will let them listen, participate and socialize with music in ways they have never been able to before.”
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Blerk said:
Make it stop!
Patrick Garratt said:
As someone just pointed out to me, “So, you’ll walk into a shop and see: Guitar Hero World Tour; Guitar Hero On Tour, Guitar Hero Metallica, Guitar Hero 5, Rock Band 2, Band Hero…”
Xephon1970 said:
God help the shops, they’ve gotta store all this plastic crap. It’s gone too far now. I really can’t see the buying public putting up with yearly updates for too much longer.
When will this fascination with peripherals end? Soon I hope…
pleasant_cabbage said:
Please stop.
I enjoy pratting around with my music toys but this is a getting a little much. With the Beatles game coming out too I imagine it’ll have its own instruments.
Caution: bollocks, vague, half-baked idea alert
Would it be possible to do a learning thing/game with normal electric guitars plugged in/dongled up to the console? Like when tuning it up using an electronic device only adding much more to it?
SplatteredHouse said:
I agree, this is just horrible.
JCC said:
It’s too much….
deftangel said:
I read a feature this week that pointed to the music game sector being down a significant percentage last holiday. I can’t say I’m surprised.
What it didn’t take into account were DLC sales which is what they should be focusing on together with perhaps disc based song packs. We don’t need new instruments!
Presumably they think the E10+ rated version will reverse this decline because clearly, kids haven’t bought any of the other 10 editions have they?
Patrick Garratt said:
As I said earlier, I think it’ll be very interesting to see some justification for the multiple SKUs. I’m a bit baffled at the moment.
pracer said:
Activision simply doesn’t understand DLC is one problem and some bands think they are bigger then DLC is another. No reason Aerosmith, Mettalica, Van Halen, or Beatles couldn’t all have been DLC. At this point I only play Rockband 2. We have rb/rb2 and close to 300usd in dlc all under game disc. Sad to say I will buy the Beatles game tho. I mean its the beatles.
frostquake said:
WAY TOO MUCH!!! I have no more Room. I can see it Now Guitar Hero Only Stores and Kiosks at your local mall or strip mall…They have enough already to fill a store…with all the add-on’s and accessories….Sheesh…I think I am done…Each New Music Game adds another button or switch to the instrument, just to get you to drop $200US..Nope No more…I am worn out! I have a room full of drums and asst guitars…NO MORE…My Gag reflex has started!!! Too much of a good thing folks!
Seraphemz said:
DJ Hero sound like shit. i mean come on… whats next? Piano Hero, or Violen Hero.. Classical Music Hero…