Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Reviews
1. We get in touch with our inner Joe Perry by playing a few songs' worth of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
We covered Guitar Hero: Aerosmith a couple months back, but this was our first
opportunity to click away on a miniature Les Paul to see how it plays.
Besides a decidedly un-DragonForce difficulty level, this entry in the Guitar Hero
franchise is steeped in an Aerosmith feel, with menus, videos, and reworked animations all
focused on the band.
Taking a look at the tracklist, there's obviously a heavy emphasis on the work of Steven
Tyler and company, but for the most part, the gameplay is much the same in the
multiplayer.
No, it's when you kick off a new career that the realization you're playing an Aerosmith
game really hits you.
The first chapter in career mode is called "Getting the Band Together."
Each of these chapters is structured like a real show, so you'll see a pair of opening
bands in each segment before you can unlock the Aerosmith tunes.
The very first band you'll live vicariously through is the power pop group Cheap Trick,
performing their song "Dream Police."
As you progress further into the career mode, you'll make your way from the aforementioned
Nipmuc High all the way to the famous Orpheum Theatre in Boston, with even a trip to the
Super Bowl halftime show.
In our talk with Neversoft senior producer Chris Parise, he brought up the fact that they
received quite a bit of feedback from fans on the level of difficulty players encountered
in GHIII.
Parise told us that Steven Tyler took a look at the animations from Guitar Hero III and
told Neversoft those weren't going to cut it.
So they strapped some motion sensors to Tyler--including, oddly enough, on his mouth--for
good, old-fashioned motion capturing.
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2. We take a first look at the upcoming Guitar Hero, which features the "Bad Boys From Boston," Aerosmith
With the Guitar Hero franchise having generated over a billion dollars in sales,
there's no question that it's "Rockin' on Top of the World."
Now one of the biggest games in the world has gotten together with one of the world's
biggest bands: Aerosmith.
But is the addition of Steven Tyler and company "A Good Thing," or will the
fifth game in the series be the "Same Old Song and Dance"?
We got a first look at Guitar Hero: Aerosmith today to find out.
This is first evident in the menus, whose backgrounds are all locations taken from
Aerosmith's real-life recording studio.
Of course, all of the band members are in the game, albeit in stylized video game form and
looking younger than they are today.
You'll still start at a small venue and work your way to the big time, but this time
you'll be rocking in many of the same places Aerosmith played on the road to stardom.
The intro movie shows a cartoon-style Aerosmith's humble beginnings and even a cartoon
Clive Davis, the man who signed the band to its first deal.
When you clear that area's songs (encores are back) you'll unlock a longer, more detailed
version of the video--a really cool feature if you're a big fan of the group.
Your first gig will take place where Aerosmith's first gig took place: Nipmuc High School.
One thing that is a little disappointing about co-op play is that while some songs will
have lead guitar and rhythm guitar, and others will have lead guitar and bass, there
aren't any songs where all three parts are playable.
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http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/puzzle/guitarheroaerosmith/news.html?sid=6188431&mode=previews
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