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The latest Guitar Hero installment brings a new visual style and improved party mode
More Guitar Hero means more drunken parties listening to your inebriated friends singing Blur’s Song 2, while you try to explain to your parents why you aren’t wearing any pants. As always, Guitar Hero 5 is possibly the most fun you can have without being arrested, and it’s a major improvement over last year’s World Tour (which is a fantastic game).
The biggest change to the Guitar Hero formula is the Party Play mode. Party Play lets you choose any song in the game (they’re all unlocked right from the start) to rock out to. The game will also randomly pick a song for you if you just feel like playing any one of the 85 songs in the game. While the song is playing, your friends can pick up an instrument and drop into the game (any combination of instruments is permissible, so if you have four drum sets, four drummers can play at the same time, or three guitarists can jam to the same song). This doesn’t stop the song: the game simply adds a new note highway to the user interface. This also means that you can change difficulty, which hand you prefer to use, and edit/create new playlists on the fly, without ever pausing the song that’s playing.
This makes the game much more suited to its natural role as a party game, and it’s a brilliant new addition. The game boasts an awesome new visual style: gone are the cartoonish characters and flashy UI. While the look of old will certainly be missed, it wasn’t long before we found ourselves greatly appreciating the new, more realistic visual style and minimalist UI. The Career mode offers the usual gameplay as you lead your virtual band through numerous venues to reach plastic peripheral based superstardom. The Music Studio, Rock Star Creator and all that goodness make a return in this title. Guitar Hero 5 is simply pure ‘awesomeness.’
More Guitar Hero means more drunken parties listening to your inebriated friends singing Blur’s Song 2, while you try to explain to your parents why you aren’t wearing any pants. As always, Guitar Hero 5 is possibly the most fun you can have without being arrested, and it’s a major improvement over last year’s World Tour (which is a fantastic game).
The biggest change to the Guitar Hero formula is the Party Play mode. Party Play lets you choose any song in the game (they’re all unlocked right from the start) to rock out to. The game will also randomly pick a song for you if you just feel like playing any one of the 85 songs in the game. While the song is playing, your friends can pick up an instrument and drop into the game (any combination of instruments is permissible, so if you have four drum sets, four drummers can play at the same time, or three guitarists can jam to the same song). This doesn’t stop the song: the game simply adds a new note highway to the user interface. This also means that you can change difficulty, which hand you prefer to use, and edit/create new playlists on the fly, without ever pausing the song that’s playing.
This makes the game much more suited to its natural role as a party game, and it’s a brilliant new addition. The game boasts an awesome new visual style: gone are the cartoonish characters and flashy UI. While the look of old will certainly be missed, it wasn’t long before we found ourselves greatly appreciating the new, more realistic visual style and minimalist UI. The Career mode offers the usual gameplay as you lead your virtual band through numerous venues to reach plastic peripheral based superstardom. The Music Studio, Rock Star Creator and all that goodness make a return in this title. Guitar Hero 5 is simply pure ‘awesomeness.’