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Clutch of songs, modes to play.

Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb has announced the arrival of a Band Hero demo on Xbox Live.

The file is 534MB and contains playable tracks by Finger Eleven ("Paralyzer"), Katrina & The Waves ("Walking on Sunshine") and Taylor Swift ("Picture to Burn"). Party Play and Sing-Along modes are available.

Band Hero is the pop spin-off form the metal-heavy Guitar Hero series, featuring playable characters Adam Levine (Maroon 5) and Taylor Swift.

Retailers agree upon a 6th November release date, although we can't find solid confirmation. We're checking with Activision.

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AgentBalti #1 2 years ago

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Ngngnggngngnngg....Walking on Sunshine. Instant Fail. Most irritating song...ever.
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seasidebaz #2 2 years ago

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Awesome. Will be playing this when I get in.
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wizlon #3 2 years ago

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Not a very good collection of demo songs there, unlike the metallica demo, which rocked HARD!
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Monkey_Puncher #4 2 years ago

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Fantastic news for 8 year olds and people who have terrible taste in music!
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udat #5 2 years ago

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While I probably prefer more of this sort of track than metal/angsty rock, I wish you could just buy all these songs in the GH Store.
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JahB #6 2 years ago

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@udat

i seriously hope somebody buys you Brutal Legend for christmas
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jaywalker3010 Verified Mastering Manager, Square Enix #7 2 years ago

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silly question time, but do you HAVE to have a guitar etc to play these? no support at all for normal controller (have never owned rock band or guitar hero before)
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seasidebaz #8 2 years ago

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Fantastic news for 8 year olds and people who have terrible taste in music!

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean everyone else doesn't. Or are you one of these people who thinks artists become shit the second they get a song in the charts?
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kangarootoo #9 2 years ago

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@jaywalker3010

You can't play the guitar track with a controller (that stopped when GH:WT came along), but you can sing using a standard 360 headset.

You can play GH3 with a controller, and it works well enough (a lot like Amplitude really) until you need the orange button.

Edit: detail - I'm talking about the PS3 version of GH3. I assume the 360 is the same, but I don't know for sure.

Edited by 1 at 15/10/09 @ 17:27
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Markusdragon #10 2 years ago

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@jaywalker3010
You can use, IIRC, an Xbox 360 headset plugged into a standard controller to sing, but to play any of the instruments, you're going to need the peripherals.
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seasidebaz #11 2 years ago

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Just played the demo.

My mouth was forced into a grin for the entire 20 minutes I was playing it. Like this:

Brilliant little game.
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Machewman #12 2 years ago

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Is it too much to expect a surprise appearance from Kanye West halfway through the Taylor Swift track?
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