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Guitar Hero II Coming to Next-Gen Consoles

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rocking-it-hd-style dept.

GamesIndustry.biz reports on comments by CEO and chairman of Activision Robert Kotick at a conference this week. According to Mr. Kotick, Red Octane's next game (coming to the PS2 in November) will see release on next-gen consoles early next year. From the article: "Kotick confirmed that Guitar Hero would appear 'on every significant new format', while discussing intentions for yearly updates and building franchises across a number of key Activision titles."

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  1. Xbox360? by nathanliesch · · Score: 2, Informative

    Where's the link? Does this include XBox360?

    1. Re:Xbox360? by reanjr · · Score: 2, Informative

      It does indeed include 360.

  2. Jeez, Zonk by RasputinAXP · · Score: 5, Informative

    At least remember to put the link in...

    http://gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=1983 6

  3. Demo in Cambridge last night by christefano · · Score: 3, Informative

    There was a demo last night of GH2 at the postmortem usergroup's "Harmonix party" (in Central Square, Cambridge) close to where Harmonix is based). I didn't know it was happening until about an hour before I went, or I'd probably taken a camera and a bottle of water (the minibar was selling them for $2 [but the pizza was free!]).

    The line was pretty long, even with people going up two at a time (the multiplayer co-op mode was pretty interesting). Unfortunately, there was only one venue to play in the demo. One of the speakers from Harmonix said that they finally got to do with GH2 what they originally wanted to do with GH1. He said "not a lot" has changed in the gameplay, though, although he sounded really happy with the "revolutionary" additions such as pull-offs.

    I'd say more, but I don't know how much of what I learned from the developers is public. It didn't sound, though, like they've started development on PS3 hardware yet.

    Apparently, postmortem has these meetings once a month. Ask around if you're in the Boston area.