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Strumming up enthusiasm.

Activision has uploaded a demo of Guitar Hero 5 to Xbox Live. Assuming that's how it works. It's probably not.

Anyway, however it got there, it's 478MB and consists of three songs, which you can try out in the new jump-in Party mode.

Party mode allows you to pick up an instrument and join in with songs that are playing merrily along without anyone's help. The idea is that you can leave it on in the background during parties, obviously, and you can customise the playlist and everything.

It's one of many things we liked about the latest in Activision and Neversoft's venerable rhythm-action series, as you can read in our glowing Guitar Hero 5 review.

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mashk #1 2 years ago

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Here's hoping there's something by Boyzone on there.
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Leolian #2 2 years ago

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What are the 3 songs?
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Roland_D11 #3 2 years ago

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The tracks should be:

Kryponite - 3 Doors Down
The Rock Show - Blink 182
A-Punk - Vampire Weekend
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Eraysor #4 2 years ago

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They could at least have put something difficult on there.
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Avaloner #5 2 years ago

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And you NEED the peripherals this time cause the joypad don't work for instruments
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mrpon #6 2 years ago

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Crap article. Talk about the songs but then don't mention what they are.
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Roland_D11 #7 2 years ago

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@Avaloner Didn't they do this in World Tour as well? I tried to play base along with 2 friends (guitar & vocals) with a pad yesterday in WT and that did not work...
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budgietheii #8 2 years ago

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Had a quick play of this yesterday. Whilst the mechanics are finally up to scratch with rock band now and probably in some areas surpassing it, the experience still feels lifeless and dull unlike the feeling of actually performing that rock band generates.

Just my opinion of course.
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Avaloner #9 2 years ago

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Not sure really...If I am not mistaken I did download the World Tour demo and could play using the joypad. Not entirely sure though.
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DUFFKING #10 2 years ago

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Joypad presumably wont work because you need a microphone to do vocals; using a microphone requires the use of a controller? That's the way it was in RB anyway, unles they've made the mics into actual controllers now.
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Merlinho #11 2 years ago

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Any news whether this will also be on PSN?
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VibratingDonkey #12 2 years ago

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The setlist is poop from a butt. Have a hard look-see through that before even contemplating thinking about purchasing this thing.
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Jonny5Alive7 #13 2 years ago

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You could have said what the songs were, thats why everyone clicked the link surely.
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