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Seven Tracks for 80s Guitar Hero Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the rock-hard-with-bigger-hair dept.

Ars Technica's Opposable Thumbs blog has a partial track list for Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80s , an upcoming expansion for the hit music game. Poster Ben Kuchera wonders aloud about the report that it will be 'exclusively for the PlayStation 2'; given the recent release of Guitar Hero on the 360 it makes little sense that we won't see the new tracks as downloadable content. The tracks announced so far: "I Wanna Rock (by Twisted Sister), I Ran (by Flock of Seagulls), Round and Round (as made famous by Ratt), I Want Candy (as made famous by Bow Wow Wow), Metal Health (as made famous by Quiet Riot), Holy Diver (as made famous by Dio), Heat Of The Moment (as made famous by Asia)"

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  1. Dueling Banjos by Grayden · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Some day, on SOME edition of Guitar Hero, I want Dueling Banjos to be available in multiplayer mode.

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    Shades of Grayden
  2. Real Guitar by ptelligence · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It would be cool if there were a cheap analog to digital converter that you could plug into your console and play the notes on an actual electric guitar. Of course you'd have to tune it first, and start out simple. But the software could recognize tones and keep score based on your accuracy. Could also pipe your own sound through the system so you could hear yourself play. I already own a bass, so I think something like this would be pretty cool.

    1. Re:Real Guitar by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I've seen something similar for the pc. Don't know if I could find it via google. it would increase the difficulty level 100%, but it would finally remove my objection to the game.

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      Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
  3. mid-late 80s=mostly bad sound by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The problem with that period is the sound. Exactly in mid-80s digital effects became widely available and thus were heavily used (mostly abused) for at least 4-5 years before people got bored of them. There are some good tracks from that era almost completely destroyed by too much chorus and reverberation on everything, from voices to drums: you can listen the first 5 seconds of a track and guess that it was recorded between 1984 and 1988 from the sound. That's very bad.
    I'd rather love a list from the late 70s-early 80s only: AC-DC, Scorpions, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden (with Paul di' Anno singing), Blackfoot, Ramones, Molly Hatchet, Kiss, etc.

    On a side note, a "Drum Hero" for the Wii with tracks by Neil Peart and Mike Portnoy would probably decrease the obesity amount in western world by 80% or so.