Activision to Sponsor Consumer IQ Test This June
By - May 30th, 2008
I generally prefer to write about games I’m excited over, but with the launch date approaching I couldn’t let this one slip by. Activision’s newest entry into the Guitar Hero franchise, Guitar Hero On Tour is set to ship in late June with its four fret adaptor for your Game Boy Advance slot and a guitar pick stylus that promises to separate fans of Rock Band versus Guitar Hero even further.
A helpful “How-To” video has surfaced to walk gamers through the intricacies of strapping the DS to their left hand while strumming the touch screen with their right. While the two player battle mode made sense and worked with the DS the entire concept still left me feeling like the protagonist in a Philip K. Dick story. You know, the one where the guy sees the dead body hanging in the street but everyone else ignores it? The Hanging Stranger! It’s seriously a great read. You could easily get through it on a bus ride while the guy next to you tries to play this game before his hand suffers a horrible hand cramp that leaves him a disfigured outcast.
Regardless of which camp you fall into, it’s impossible to ignore the idea that the entire concept for this genre was in creating a genuine rock experience via the instruments. So it’s hard to see this release as anything other than yet another publisher attempting to cash in on Nintendo’s hardware sales with software less designed around what the DS could achieve as much as cramming a popular franchise into a handheld already plagued by shovelware.
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