Guitar Hero team teases GHOUL as 360 rumours intensify

By Tom Bramwell Published 25 July, 2006

News expected soon.

Members of the Guitar Hero team have used its MySpace page to tease some sort of new Guitar Hero-related project known as G.H.O.U.L.

The MySpace entry includes a G.H.O.U.L. logo (pictured) and promises an explanation soon. "Many of us [working on GH] have been in the laboratory here hard at work on something that I will officially announce within the next couple weeks," the update reads.

Meanwhile, chatter about an Xbox 360 version of the game has intensified, giving further backing to comments made by various figures at publisher RedOctane from earlier this year.

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Any ideas? Speculation about an online league has been prominent.

Speaking to MCV this February, RedOctane's VP of marketing Dean Ku said: "I think Guitar Hero would be great on other platforms as well as PS2, including the new Xbox 360."

Members of the development team also refused to rule it out when we spoke to them earlier this year.

Then last month, RedOctane president Ken Huang added that the company was looking into next-gen music games with downloadable content and online play.

So, er, just in case you were in any doubt, eh?

Guitar Hero II - a PS2 exclusive - is due out in November in the USA.

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Comments (18) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • neuroniky #1 6 years ago

    Guitar Hero Online User League? Too easy :D. Only the "U" looks open to guesses...

  • cyacomini #2 6 years ago

    Gigantic Heroin Overdose Upsets Liver ?

  • neilka #3 6 years ago

    Geri Halliwell's Old Unwashed Ladybits.

    Surely.

  • hidden_asbestos #4 6 years ago

    It'll be great so long as they let you use the existing PS2 guitar - I don't want to have to buy two when a PS2->USB controller convertor would be cheaper.

  • t8yman #5 6 years ago

    @asbestos, you stick with your wired controller, I'll go with the nice new shiny wireless one, and all the guitar chucking freedom that goes with it ;0)

  • Scurrminator #6 6 years ago

    The cherry gibson is being packaged with Guitar Hero 2 if that's of any interest to anyone, i enquired about it a few weeks ago.

  • kangarootoo #7 6 years ago

    Guitar Hero with pay-per-title downloadable content would be soooo sweeeeet. Grraaaaaaannngggg..... eeeeeeoeeeeeee (thats me on my guitar, wailing as hard as a ninja with excitement, normal service will be resumed shortly) didleedidleedidleedidleedidleedidleeeeeeoooooooooooo.

  • JonFE #8 6 years ago

    Ooh come on; 8 comments in and no "OMG, another chance for milking profits via M$ marketplace..."??? What's wrong with you??? Where's the EG audience I love??? Did the heat do something funny to your head???





    j/k

    Seriously, I'd love a GH title for my x360 - one less reason to invest in a PS...

  • jat299 #9 6 years ago

    Guitar Hero Online: Ultimate Legends?

  • Fatfish #10 6 years ago

    Guitar Hero: Online, Unplugged and Live?

    Gives you the opportunity to play live acoustic sets online to an audience? :p

  • gizmo #11 6 years ago

    @Jat299 - Winner :)

  • Ikari2001 #12 6 years ago

    Man, please release GH on 360, I've managed to not buy a PS2 simply for this game so far... but my resolve is in need of a boost, so come on, 360 GH as soon as please, I beg of you... I might go into game later to see if they've till got the demo pod there ^__^ get a little fix to help me along...

    as for all the online possibilities, ooo such potential... as long as new tracks are cheap I'm fine with it ^__^

  • Canadian_Mike #13 6 years ago

    Great game, the thing i love about it most is that if you actually play guitar you will be amazing at ths game the second you pick it up.

    I remeber blowing everyone at work away the first time i touched it. That was after cranking the difficulty up. Easy mode was just lame. I almost couldn't play that slow! lol

    Also, I thought the guitar would feel too small, but it works fine and you look funny as hell pounding on this thing making badass "Rock Faces"!!!

  • neuroniky #14 6 years ago

    If a 360 GH with downloadable content ever see the light... count me in the population of the 360 owners.

  • coojam #15 6 years ago

    This has got to be the best gaming news I've heard for a long time...finally I can get shot of my PS2!!!

  • Stickman #16 6 years ago

    For me, GH is GOTY at the moment. I absolutely love it. So does the missus. So do all my gaming friends. So do all my non gaming friends. So do my mum and dad. So do their friends.

    Not many games can do that.

  • kangarootoo #17 6 years ago

    I've seen the same thing. When it comes to attracting a larger market to games, GH and Singstar stand head and shoulders above almost everything else.

    Singstar still presents a barrier for people who feel self concious about singing, but then its artistic styling is more mainstream than GH (Gh still looks quite gamey which may put a minority off, plus the difficulty curve of GH is much steeper).

    Either way, both of those titles prove that the simplest ideas (if properly executed) can often be the best. They are pretty much the only games I play on the PS2 right now. Isn't music just the coolest thing :)

  • penhalion #18 6 years ago

    I think fatfish gets the prize.....