Xbox 360 and Guitar Hero: Aerosmith

Powered by the electric blues-infused, “grab you by your throat” rock n’ roll made famous by the legendary Boston rockers, Guitar Hero®: Aerosmith® represents the franchise’s first band-specific offering. They could have hardly chosen better as Joe Perry’s explosive guitar work seems tailor-made for Guitar Hero glory Read more

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Exclusive and Rock out Trailer

For all you Guitar Hero fans the new Aerosmith version looks as though it will be awesome, one thing that I am not sure of though, will it have online play. Just check out this video man it rocks, for those of you who were left a little disappointed with GH3 the new Aerosmith will help make up for that.

I think that this could just be the start of Guitar Hero Band versions, if GH Aerosmith proves popular then that will open the door for a number of other versions, bring back Guns ‘n’ Roses. If Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is a little light for you, who would you like to appear on the GH game.

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is now the fifth entry and only the second spin-off in the Guitar Hero series. The game allows you to use a peripheral in the shape of a guitar so when you play it will simulate as if you was playing a real guitar. The game has been developed by Neversoft which is then distributed by Activision.

All of the Aerosmith band has played their part in the new game and has took part in motion capture, so that the developers could accurately recreate their moves digitally for the game.

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith will be released on June 29 2008, and will be available on the Sony PS3 and PS2, the Xbox 360, and also the Nintendo Wii.

Guitar Hero IV Rumor: upgrades include drums and microphone for vocals

The whole Guitar Hero franchise without a doubt is a popular one and we know that when Activision get round to launching Guitar Hero IV there will be a number of new upgrades. Bobby Kotick the CEO of Activision has revealed that some of these upgrades will include drum kit as well as a microphone, so the new version will allow you to play the drums as well as adding your own vocals. Kotick also added that Guitar Hero IV could also have “local content” from “local bands.”

It does seem strange that they will call the game Guitar Hero IV as the game will be focusing on drums as well, should be Rock Band then. Although some people have suggested a few other names including Rockstar Hero or Band Hero. According to sources over at Activision, they feel that their drum kit add-on will be far superior to the one that is used on Rock Band.

One area that we know is wrong with the Guitar Hero franchise is their downloadable content, so I would assume that Activision is working hard to try and improve in this most important area. Activision has some great things coming this year, firstly we have the release of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith coming this June, once this is released Activision has stated that they will be releasing downloadable content at least once a week. There was also the announcement of the merger with Vivendi, this would mean that Activision will have access to a huge amount of record labels content from the Universal Music Group.

It does seem as if the Guitar Hero franchise is here to stay and will just keep getting better.

Source – Joystiq