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Guitar Hero, DJ Hero, Band Hero Due This Year

07.05.2009

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Activision will be pumping on your stereo this year with a whole slew of new music games, including DJ Hero and Guitar Hero 5.

The publisher, known for Guitar Hero and Call of Duty, has announced numerous music titles for release this fall.

DJ Hero: Puts you in the seat of a your favourite mixers with a range of hip-hop, R&B, dance/electronica and Mowtown tunes to mix up in your living room using a new turntable controller (as shown in Activision's render below):

Band Hero: E10+ game designed for family play, easy to play/difficult to master approach for both novice and seasoned players to jam along together to top-40 hits.

Guitar Hero 5: The latest addition to the long-running franchise, with the ability to drop in and out of songs, change band members, instruments and difficulty on the fly.

Joystiq have revealed another Guitar Hero band-themed game to join Aerosmith and Metallica, Guitar Hero: Van Halen.

Guitar Hero: Van Halen: Contains the bands "greatest hits" alongside top tunes from Queen, blink-182, The Offspring, Weezer and more.

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Guitar Hero has made music social again and has become one of the most popular ways to experience music. Today's fans enjoy a variety of music and are looking for more ways to engage with their favorite 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.

Will you be picking up any of these Activision music titles this year?

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Stulaw 07.05.2009#1

I think I'll stick with Guitar Hero.

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Echoes221 07.05.2009#2

Stulaw said:
I think I'll stick with Guitar Hero.

Agreed.
I'm very slowly walking away....
Now I'm running incredibly fast away from DJ hero

PK Mongoose 07.05.2009#3

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They're going WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too far with this...

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jb 07.05.2009#4

Owch - a bit too much new stuff, they should really focus on bumping up the DLC and keeping gamers with the older versions happy. Too much too soon methinks.

DJ Hero has potential though, could be pretty neat to use.

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PMD 07.05.2009#5

A lot of (black) people I know don't like guitar hero because it doesn't have any songs they like in it.

Activision is just trying to broaden their market. I will stay away from DJ Hero unless they release a fully electronic music version.

crackedthesky 07.05.2009#6

Guitar Hero 5 already? Sheeze...
As long as it uses the same instruments as World Tour (which they should be selling separately by now) then I'll get it.
I notice the article doesn't mention GH Smash Hits, or whatever they're calling it now.

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trgdr777 07.05.2009#7

PMD said:
A lot of (black) people I know don't like guitar hero because it doesn't have any songs they like in it.
Activision is just trying to broaden their market. I will stay away from DJ Hero unless they release a fully electronic music version.

Um... I don't think see the significance of them being black lol. I mean I'm African American, but the reason I don't like Guitar Hero, is because they don't have enough of the Rock/Alternative/Guitar-driven music I like to make it interesting. I know a lot of people (not black) that felt that way. My musical taste is kind of all over the place, though.

I think that if they try hip hop it will probably be even worse. I agree that a focus on electronic music would make for a much better game. What's funny is the last time I was at a party and they were playing Rock Band, I jokingly told a friend that they needed a DJ game for electronic/house music. I never thought it'd actually happen though.

Kangaroo_Kid 08.05.2009#8

I've said it before and I'll say it again; the fuck Activision?

Laurelin 08.05.2009#9

That sure ist the case: I am often perfectly happy with Guitar Hero's music, thou I like GH 3 more then WT and the old parts 1 and 2. DJ Hero isn't for me. But maybe it's a great experience for them R&Bs.

GH5? Depends on the set-list. They should make possible to play any tune from any GH-game on GH5. I know, it's virtually impossible on Wii, but who knows... I want to play all the tunes from all GH I own on the fly, not change the game all the time. Aerosmith is dusting on my shelf, because there are a lot of songs in it I don't like to play.

I find your lack of faith disturbing!

JoshSL 08.05.2009#10

Activision should try doing other games for once. As in something other than Music Hero or Pro Sports. As I said on an earlier thread, wouldn't "Super Hero" be interesting? Smilie

I guess it'll be fine as long as they don't make "An Hero" to cash in to the suicidal emos Smilie

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crackedthesky 10.05.2009#11

Something this article doesn't seem to mention, is that these have actually been in development for a while. Band Hero was copyrighted around the time of GH3, DJ Hero (if I recall) around GH2.
GH5 would be well worth it, for the ability to change stuff on the fly. Restarting the song / setlist / game is a major pain in the posterior. There are other areas that greatly need improvement (like the fact that it's pretty much impossible to activate star power on drums. I can smack both cymbals all I want, and all it does is terminate my combo. Then on the 7th or 8th try, it might activate it. And the faster songs don't even give enough of a break to move to the cymbals anyway.)