You must be thinking of Guitar Hero: World Tour

So I tried the GH demo today at BB. Man what a crappy, cheap controller. Feels really light and flimsy. I don't like the new button layout -- you have guitar-pick shaped notes in three columns, facing right side up if upside down. The vertical orientation determines which button to press as there are two rows of buttons in three columns each. I'm sure I could get used to it, but it's a little harder to interpret than five buttons in one row.
The POV stuff is just silly. You're looking at the notes, not the background anyway.

Background? Foreground? Foreground as the background?

I think the guitar fret is the foreground and everything else is the background.

Still it's weird since it's live action, but clearly not the Black Keys or Fall Out Boy, so why does it have to be FMV anyway? It feels a little like Mad Dog McCree with a guitar (i.e. Cheesy).

FMV means we can't bitch about the terrible character creator in version 0.9.

Plus no more difficulties with DLC song exports.

Damn not a lot of love here for the game...wonder if I made a mistake preordering this...

You should definitely try the demo at Best Buy before you pick this up.

Also makes it infinitely easier to make compatible on a wide variety of platforms by just compressing the video to match the platform. This game has "suck" written all over it ("You Suck!").

You mean like AppleTV and iOS?

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Guitar Hero hasn't played the same (or nearly as well) since Guitar Hero 2. This... doesn't look like it'll fix that, but hey, James Franco and Lenny Kravitz.

Whip that dick out. Win them back! Oh shit, there's the joke. Dammit.

That was a joke just for the commercial about no pausing, right? Then again, what's one more joke on this pile...

James Franco stole your joke.

Right. I just can't imagine anyone wanting to play this on a phone, or even a tablet.

Okay, that commercial was pretty funny at least.

Destructoid - 9.5
IGN - 7.9
Game Informer - 7.5
Gamespot - 6.0

Never really understood all the hate the game was getting here other then it just being a Guitar Hero game, reviews aren't bad but seem to range quite a bit.

Destructiod - 9.5 - http://www.destructoid.com/review-gu...e-315533.phtml

IGN - 7.9 - http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/10/...ign=Coverstory

Gamespot - 6 - http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/guit.../1900-6416284/


Metacritic has it at 78 right now overall.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/plays...itar-hero-live

EDIT: D'oh chuck.

It's Activision. They're going to ruin it again for everyone.

Meh I tried the beta of the game so I kept quiet, but it was pretty fun and I thought the view in to the crowd and live video worked well. Then again I wasn't hardcore in to the plastic instrument stuff that a lot of you guys are. That said, I still feel kind of over the whole genre. The microtransactions in here still seem wonky though.

So...

This game is alright. It's slickly produced. The microtransactions/online stuff is fine, and kind of a lot of fun actually. The new guitar will take some getting used to but I wanted the challenge of a new control scheme. So far I don't regret my GCU discounted purchase.

So are the RB guitars going to work with this game and vice versa?

No and no.

This game uses a guitar controller with two rows of three buttons instread of one row of five colored buttons.