DJ Hero, Band Hero, GH5 for autumn

By Robert Purchese Published 7 May, 2009

Activision confirms melody of titles.

Activision has said Guitar Hero 5, DJ Hero and Band Hero will be out this autumn, confirming our report from March.

No platforms are mentioned by the publisher and few details are offered, however. We've heard all three games are in development for PS2, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360.

Activision does offer that Guitar Hero 5 will let us drop in and out of songs, as well as change band members, instruments and difficulty levels on the fly.

DJ Hero has a a turntable peripheral we popped pictures of in a gallery earlier. Activision says players will be able to create their own mixes from a slew of music covering hip-hop, R&B, Motown, electronica and dance.

Finally, Band Hero be a more casual affair to ensnare the iPod-wearing youth with a selection of top-40 hits. The game will use drum, bass, microphone and guitar.

We'll let you know more when we do.

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  • jeebthegreat #1 3 years ago

    Hopefully GH5 will be something more of a challenge than GHWT. Perhaps add Expert+ across the board, and a better setlist. World Tour's was full of dire songs with a few gems. Guess we'll find out at E3!

  • Widge #2 3 years ago

    :(

    I create my own mixes anyway. Oh well, DJ Hero off the 'interest' list.

  • Eraysor #3 3 years ago

    GHWT had the worst setlist of all the GH games release so far, with the exception of Aerosmith.

  • collateral89 #4 3 years ago

    guitar heros song list and dlc sucks compared to rock bands they best sort this out 4 gh5

  • Toothball #5 3 years ago

    @Ashen-Shugar:

    If they ever release it, try the RB2 kit with cymbals. You get depth with your kit that way, and with a bit of practice figuring out whether to hit a pad or a cymbal is pretty easy. Better yet, try the Ion kit if you get the chance. It's vastly more fun to use than the Guitar Hero kit.

  • Freek #6 3 years ago

    "isn't every one board of this plastic guitar nonsense yet? "

    No, it's still as fun to play as it ever was. But I don't think people want to buy more expensive plastic instrument kitts, that part of the genre is getting comepletly out of hand.

  • b00n #7 3 years ago

    Those drop-in / drop-out and on the fly changing of instruments and difficulty levels is great! No more replaying boring songs because friends absolutely want to show how good they are and then fail at 92% of the last song in the set list. Hope that if you buy either GH5 or that Band Hero thing that you can download the songs of the other of those two for a reduced price.

  • DoctorZoidberg #8 3 years ago

    'Band Hero'.....

    Don't the Guitar Hero games now use a full on band anyway?

    This is all getting VERY cash cow if you ask me. How many ways can you spin the SAME game?

    Edit : At least DJ hero sounds a bit different.
    Edited by 1 at 07/05/09 @ 15:44

  • FooAtari #9 3 years ago

    Three "Hero" games at the same time. Three!

    Talk about milking the franchise...

    What happened to Activision? Between GH and CoD do they actually do anything new? Wheres the creativity!!

    Anyway why do we need Band Hero? Just release some DLC for World Tour.

  • jeebthegreat #10 3 years ago

    They really are milking it. Guitar Hero Aerosmith and Metallica are prime examples; yes, I'm gonna buy Metallica because I'm a huge fan, but the point is really they're both just glorified DLC. Worst still, GHSmash Hits really does take the piss; recycling songs from older GH games (mostly not fun ones) and selling em again to the masses. I'm hoping Harmonix/MTV don't go the way of Activision and continue with the great DLC on offer instead. Also bored of buying new kits all the time, simply f*ck off!

  • kangarootoo #11 3 years ago

    On the subject of milking it... if they pitch three different variants to three different customer types and each customer type only buy one variant each, surely that is just consumer choice.

    You wouldn't say BMW are milking it just because they have more than two or three cars in their range.

    "Milking it" is far too overused a term on these pages. It is often just what gamers call "continuing to produce a successful product". So bloody what is what I say. If it sells it shows that people want it, and what exactly is wrong with that?

  • jeebthegreat #12 3 years ago

    BMW aren't producing tons of shit cars a year, Activision are starting to go that way with Guitar Hero. So GH5 might just turn out to be good and I'm really hoping it does; but make matters worse, they've also announced GH:Van Halen, read it on IGN. 4 more games before the end of the year, with Metallica still to come out. If they manage to make every one of those brilliant and really worth the money, I'll be surprised, but Smash Hits (number 6 before 2010) isn't looking like it's gonna impress me too much

  • FooAtari #13 3 years ago

    @Kanga

    The different version of Guitar Hero are more like different models of the same car. However BMW also have a large range of very different cars.

    The same probably can't be said for Activisions catalog.

    And anyway, the games industry is not the cars industry. If a movie studio released three different versions of say Star Trek at the same time, maybe just with difference actors, or a different ship it wouldn't go down very well... I don't want the same crap year after year I want new and refreshing games. Otherwise it becomes a bit of a chore and, well, I'll just turn it off.

  • Freek #14 3 years ago

    You can so easely go the way of Tomb Raider or Need for Speed. You putt out to much of the same game too frequently without taking the time to genuinly move the franchise forward in a meaningfull way, people quickly get sick of it and buy less and less of the game untill the whole franchise goes bust.

  • kangarootoo #15 3 years ago

    @jeebthegreat

    "BMW aren't producing tons of shit cars a year"

    Well some would disagree, and equally some would suggest that none of the GH spin offs are shit. Funny that, subjective opinion not being the same across the board. Who would have thunk it?



    "And anyway, the games industry is not the cars industry"

    WHAAAAA?!? So THAT is why my free set of alloys has been taking so long to arrive.


    "If a movie studio released three different versions of say Star Trek at the same time, maybe just with difference actors, or a different ship it wouldn't go down very well... I don't want the same crap year after year I want new and refreshing games"

    But this perfectly describes my point. For SOME people three different versions of the the same ST film would be a fine and dandy idea. Just like more music for fans of GH is a great old thing to behold. Some people will absolutely get bored and buy something else, and that is great. But if they can still sell this stuff, because others still want to buy it, why on earth should they stop making them? Because some other people don't want to buy it anymore? Should Honda stop making motorbikes for their many customers because Mr Smith of Skegness would prefer to buy a car instead?

    If you don't want GH editions, stop buying them. And leave Activision to their business. And when enough people stop buying them, they will stop making them. Seems kind of obvious, doesn't it?

  • Stop-gap #16 3 years ago

    Milk it. Milk it to the bone.

    edit- I know it'll never happen, but I'd be 100% sold if you could somehow process your own MP3s into the game.
    Edited by 1 at 08/05/09 @ 09:28

  • Zomoniac #17 3 years ago

    I know it'll never happen, but I'd be 100% sold if you could somehow process your own MP3s into the game.

    Yup. And they'd be 100% bankrupt as well :)

  • jeebthegreat #18 3 years ago

    Don't get me wrong kanga, i love GH. It's just annoying that Activision are going down the rip off retail route; look how expensive GH3 and Rock Band 1 still are even preowned; £40! DLC would just make things easier I reckon, but I guess we won't know til these games come out. I'm looking forward to hearing what's new in GH5 definitely :) World Tour definitely could do with improving upon