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Activision has released a remix of the Halo theme for Guitar Hero III. It's now available on Live and it won't cost you a penny.
The release comes off the back of news that Guitar Hero III is helping bolster digital music sales for bands featured in the game.
According to a report on Ars Technica, starring acts The Strokes, Sleeping and Sonic Youth all enjoyed increased popularity after the game launched in the US at the end of October.
Persuading record companies to feature music in games has historically been a chore, but recently the shoe made its way to the other foot. EA claimed earlier this year that one song in Need for Speed could be heard as many as a billion times around the world, making our medium even more of an influence on its target demographic than radio.
Despite this, songs often have to be covered in Guitar Hero, and apparently Activision has gotten a little too good at it. Rockers The Romantics have reportedly filed a lawsuit against the publisher, claiming the song "What I Like About You" sounds far too much like them.
Their sound is supposedly unique and took them a long time to cultivate, and this mimicry is confusing people into thinking the Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s version is the real potato.
Guitar Hero III is out in Europe on Friday and is really rather good, pop over to our review if you don't believe me.
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crazyhorse174
22/11/07 @ 16:05
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Their sound is supposedly unique and took them a long time to cultivate, and this mimicry is confusing people into thinking the Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s version is the real potato
Not that unique is it then? |
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asphaltcowboy
22/11/07 @ 16:09
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Halo theme would be better on Rock Band surely? :(
Not sure I'm going to get GH3, but Rock Band looks fantastic! |
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TwistidChimp
22/11/07 @ 16:23
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Got my copy of GH3 yesterday, its excellent, Edges main problem with it was that it didn't really advance the series in any large way. But then.. so what, i'm new to Guitar Hero and this one's got a great track listing, and with lots of downloadable band packs on the way, I really cant complain.
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It's better than a 6/10, but I still don't think it's a 9/10. The comments section for the review chronicles my complaining quite loudly though, and admittedly the 360 version does seem to be rather a lot better than the PS2 version.
I do wonder whether lots of access to Rock Band tempered Edge's review at all though. |
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silver jon
22/11/07 @ 16:33
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"Their sound is supposedly unique and took them a long time to cultivate, and this mimicry is confusing people into thinking the Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s version is the real potato."
Their sound is clearly of their heads popping out of their arses. How many people do they think had heard of that track before the game came out ? Shame it's such a bollock-low nadir in the game. I absolutely hated this song, and the difficulty spike it represented. It's one of the reasons "Rock the 80s" has not been out of its case since 2 days after I bought it, and it's going back to Game to give me the trade-in for . . . . well . . . GH3 actually. /is a sucker. |
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Ignatius_Cheese
22/11/07 @ 16:41
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Halo theme would be better on Rock Band surely? :(
Aye, if the mic is used for humming along to the "hurdygurdy" rhythm. And then EVERYONE can have a good ol' Irish knees up! :oD |
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monkie_king
22/11/07 @ 16:56
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i hope it's not the horrible Steve Vai fretwankery version from Halo2. That man is living proof that you can be too good at the guitar.
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asphaltcowboy
22/11/07 @ 17:04
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@Cheese, ah yes, the singing, kinda forgot about that - just thinking about how awesome the drum part would be! They could sing all the Ah Ah Ahs though!
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I just got the PS3 version, and I like it. Being the first game I'm playing (though I tried GH2) I must say it would be worth a 9/10 if the Boss Battles' difficulty had been tuned better. Other than that, the guitar is very good, essential that it is a) wireless but more importantly b) I can take it apart for storage (otherwise the wife would not approve ;) ), and I'm liking it so far.
Though at times a feeling of am I playing a poor man's DDR creeps over me (GH3's engine seems so incredibly simplistic, I miss the good/great/perfects :p), the whammy bar does compensate a little. ;) |
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"Edge's review of GHIII is incredibly fair - their main gripe isn't that it doesn't advance the series, but that the note-charts are about as fun as a kick in the tubes. "
I agree! I was playing GH3 this weekend and got the exact same feeling... the notes in GH3 are really poorly laid out and far as fun to play as the songs as in GH1+2. Some of the notes even sound like they are a bit off and playing them feels "disconnected" (not a lag problem). The game also is sticking to much to the formula without really trying to improve anything except introducing boss-battles which are a bit annoying. Why still no proper tutorial/practice for hammer-ons and pull-offs and why are the difficulty levels still broken? Edge's 6/10 score seems about right to me. At least the GH3 guitar seems to be of a better build-quality. |
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