Tag: guitar hero
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Guitar Hero Live
Can Guitar Hero Live reinvent the rhythm genre as its predecessors did?
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Rocksmith 2014
Shaun finds an educational video game that he just cant stop, he has to keep on rocking, someday gonna make it to the top (score)
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Olympic Hero…
Ah, Guitar Hero. Despite the fact that my living room is still festooned with plastic tat, I had started to feel slightly more kindly disposed towards the franchise. Mostly, I suspect, because Activision pulled the plug on Guitar Hero back in February and since then the number of times I’ve had to hear Rock and…
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Never Say Die
Out of sheer luck, I had struck gold. Rock Band 3 was sitting on the shelf. I swooped towards it. Gracefully, it leapt into my waiting hands. As one we sailed, onwards to the checkout for what seemed both an instant and eternity. We had been parted for nigh on a single month. Too long!…
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…And Justice For All
I was first introduced to metal when I was in Primary 4 or so; I was at a friend’s house and he showed me a video of Metallica’s Enter Sandman. I hated it and never wanted to listen to it again – little did I know, those four horsemen would later become my favourite band.…
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Graceful defeat
It occurred to me after getting a smug smile for being crap at Guitar Hero that it wasn’t my fault. No really – how on earth could it be? For someone who has played games her whole life, it is extremely irksome to be beaten at anything, regardless of whether or not it is in…
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Marching to a Different Beat
For me, Fridays have become something of a novelty. It’s no longer the day that marks the official start of the weekend and the end of the hard graft. It’s also no longer the start of the only two days I get to lounge around on my sofa uninterrupted, playing through the backlog of games…