In the year 2006 there was a hero. A Guitar Hero.
Rich Knight
Issue date: 1/17/06 Section: Life & Leisure
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Are you ready to rock?! Okay, let's start this over again (turns microphone volume up to 11) I said, ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?! That's better. Well, if you're like me and love to rawk with no socks and are sick of spontaneously breaking into air guitar solos in the public library whenever you hear Blue Oyster Cult's monstrous masterpiece "Godzilla" on a passing car radio outside, then have I got the game for you!
It's called "Guitar Hero" and it's the most rocking thing to hit our stratosphere since Haley's Comet. Actually, I take that back, Haley's Comet was a dud and Guitar Hero is straight up balls to the walls insanity in a black bottom CD (It even comes with its own Guitar controller-whammy bar included!)
From the brain children of Red Octane Entertainment, "Guitar Hero" is not like any other rhythm music game you've ever played because it actually takes real skill to master (tapping up, down, left, left, right, left, jump, with your left foot while drinking a Fresca with your right doesn't make you freaking awesome, DDR acolytes, it makes you a freak of nature.)
The game is played like most rhythm games. Notes come streaming down from the top of the screen with different colors representing what you're supposed to hit to accompany the notes. But what makes this much harder than other slap happy games like "Donkey Konga" or even maraca heavy "Samba De Amigo" (Are there any hardcore gamers out there who remember that?! Gaming club, I'm looking at you) is that you actually have to press the keys with one hand while strumming with the other, which adds a new intricate dimension to the music genre in that you have to actually make sure both hands are working simultaneously, making your upper body feel like one well oiled, kick keister machine.
And with a small rendition of a guitar already packaged with the game, the plastic guitar-shaped controller holds up quite nicely for players with lead fingers such as myself who are prone to slam down on the five fret keys and pound the small strum bar when those long notes come along that require deft precision and keen eyes (hammer ons and pull offs included, if you happen to know what THAT means).
It's called "Guitar Hero" and it's the most rocking thing to hit our stratosphere since Haley's Comet. Actually, I take that back, Haley's Comet was a dud and Guitar Hero is straight up balls to the walls insanity in a black bottom CD (It even comes with its own Guitar controller-whammy bar included!)
From the brain children of Red Octane Entertainment, "Guitar Hero" is not like any other rhythm music game you've ever played because it actually takes real skill to master (tapping up, down, left, left, right, left, jump, with your left foot while drinking a Fresca with your right doesn't make you freaking awesome, DDR acolytes, it makes you a freak of nature.)
The game is played like most rhythm games. Notes come streaming down from the top of the screen with different colors representing what you're supposed to hit to accompany the notes. But what makes this much harder than other slap happy games like "Donkey Konga" or even maraca heavy "Samba De Amigo" (Are there any hardcore gamers out there who remember that?! Gaming club, I'm looking at you) is that you actually have to press the keys with one hand while strumming with the other, which adds a new intricate dimension to the music genre in that you have to actually make sure both hands are working simultaneously, making your upper body feel like one well oiled, kick keister machine.
And with a small rendition of a guitar already packaged with the game, the plastic guitar-shaped controller holds up quite nicely for players with lead fingers such as myself who are prone to slam down on the five fret keys and pound the small strum bar when those long notes come along that require deft precision and keen eyes (hammer ons and pull offs included, if you happen to know what THAT means).