#Wii u guitar hero live review series

The highway is now a three-note affair, with the scrolling tabs shown in black and white to help you differentiate between top and bottom frets. While the button layout is all-new, the note highway and way the actual game plays is fundamentally the same as before. There's a lot more variety in terms of combinations, and while it takes some time to adjust if you're used to playing the old five-button guitars, practice does make perfect and after a few sessions, it starts feeling quite natural and becomes second nature. It's a bold reinvention, and one that in practice does actually feel more like you're making chords with your fingers. Rather than go the traditional five-button route, Guitar Hero Live's axe features six buttons – two rows of three frets, stacked one on top of the other.

#Wii u guitar hero live review series

It's a good move that clearly differentiates itself from Rock Band, and establishes this latest entry in the series as something new and innovative in a genre that was, up until recently, seen as somewhat stale.įirst of all, let's talk about that new guitar. Now Guitar Hero Live has been unleashed, and that has gone almost completely the opposite route, featuring an all-new guitar, and a whole new way to play the game. It delivers classic gameplay that's the same as it ever was, and also offers backwards-compatibility with previously-bought songs and instruments – a very welcome touch. Rock Band 4 was the first to arrive just a couple of weeks ago, and took the tack of not reinventing itself. You wait five years for a new guitar-based music rhythm game to appear, and then two of them come around the corner almost simultaneously. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team. This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Also available onXbox One, Xbox 360, Wii U, PS3, iOS.