Another Guitar Hero Review

Matthew Battison

msb1@bolton.ac.uk

matts-games-reviewing.blogspot.com

Word Count – 240

Group – 11:00

Guitar Hero

Do you find yourself playing air guitar when you hear your favourite song? If so, then this is the game for you, with some old classic songs and some new, this will appeal to the young and old who dream of being a rockstar.

Guitar Hero was developed by Harmonix Music, published by Red Octane and released on the 4th July for the Playstation2.

The brilliance of this game is the controller; it’s in the shape of a guitar. It consists of five coloured buttons, a flipper which is used for strumming and a whammy bar.



The idea of the game is to press the coloured buttons in time with the music.



On the game screen, there is a scrolling fret board, which have various coloured notes on it. Each one of these colours represents one of the coloured buttons on the guitar, you have to hold down the buttons while scrumming with the flipper as the coloured notes move up the fret board.

There are three different game modes to get you playing, Career, Quick Play and Multiplayer. In career mode, you go through the different songs, unlocking new songs, guitars and characters as you progress. In quick play, you can play any song that you have unlocked on the varying difficultly settings. Finally, you can play against a friend in multiplayer.

With some great graphics, this game will keep you hooked until you have it mastered.