The completely different control scheme for the series’ signature plastic guitar is sure to be divisive, but with only 42 songs on-disc and the online services terminated, this is one of the most pathetic guitar games ever made.Are you ready to rock? I said… are you… Ready.
#Guitar hero live songs on disc series
Tl dr – Guitar Hero Live is, as of 2022, the final game in the Guitar Hero series of Music-Rhythm games, and it’s a pretty terrible way for the franchise to go out. What a pathetic way to end a once-great series. Even if you’re down with this game’s odd new control scheme, you’ll find it hard to get excited for the relatively tiny track list. But this? This last gasp from a dying franchise? This was not the way to go about reviving Guitar Hero, and it’s made all the worse now that its most noteworthy feature has been stripped out of the game. I’ll be honest, I’ve been a huge fan of the Rock Band franchise ever since developer Harmonix jumped ship from the Guitar Hero franchise, but I’ve still respected some of the stuff the Guitar Hero series has brought to the table, including World Tour’s music creation tool. Players hoping to see a return of prior games’ drums are out of luck, though. I should note that this game’s guitar comes with a USB dongle (no popping a Wii remote into the guitar like earlier Guitar hero games), and players who buy an extra guitar and/or USB microphone can jam in multiplayer with guitar, bass, and a vocalist. This isn’t really this game’s fault, but it made it hard for me to enjoy this game, all the same. However, in practice I found that my muscle memory from virtually every other guitar game ever made betrayed me and made Guitar Hero Live feel awkward and unnatural. I suppose in theory this allows for more complex and nuanced controls while still being fairly accessible since you won’t have to shift your hand up and down so much. The other major change here is the shift from the five multicolored button layout that typified all games in the Guitar Hero series prior to this (as well as all Rock Band games) to a new 3x2 layout that places three black buttons on one side of the guitar’s neck, and three white buttons on the other side. Welcome to the digital streaming future or something, I guess This limited soundtrack was originally supplemented with a rotating song list available through the game’s GHTV service, with these songs purchaseable via paid DLC (of course), but that’s all moot here because the service shut down in 2018, meaning all this content no longer exists - the only songs you can play in this game now are the 42 on-disc. By comparison, Guitar Hero Live’s anemic track list looks outright pathetic. World Tour even let players create their own songs to add to the game. From the start, this game has only 42 songs available on-disc, with most of those requiring the player to unlock them through the game’s campaign, which is doubly frustrating - for comparison, this is the lowest number of songs included in any Guitar Hero game, with even the first game including 47 songs, and most of those are playable from the start. Um… so if you struggle with insecurities, this game may not be for you.Īnother odd thing this game does is with its tracklist. Do well and the crowd will be going crazy, but do poorly and the crowd will start booing and your bandmates will start shooting dirty looks at you. In a nice touch, this footage blurs and changes depending on how you’re doing. One area where Guitar Hero Live sets itself apart is its presentation, which features live-action footage from the perspective of a guitar player on stage, appropriate for whatever song your playing. No doubt sensing the impending end of this sort of accessory-based Music-Rhythm game, Guitar Hero Live attempts to do some wildly unique things to break from the formula set in place in the original Guitar Hero, though I’d argue that the success of these experiments is debatable at best.
Guitar Hero Live is the seventh and as of this writing in 2022 final mainline entry in the Guitar Hero franchise of Music-Rhythm games that use a plastic guitar peripheral, releasing in 2015 on Mobile Devices, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Wii U.
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