Revealed: Rock Band guitar controller in GameStop newsletter |
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The last time we heard about Rock Band's guitar peripheral, we learned that it was being modeled after the legendary Fender Stratocaster. Unfortunately, we weren't given any details to digest, nor even an image to drool over. That all changes now, with two full-color images of the actual controller coming right at you (as well as sufficient info) courtesy of the latest GameStop newsletter. Let's check them out, shall we?
As you can see, the peripheral looks sweet - resembling an actual instrument you can rip and tear and basically rock out on chords with, rather than a dull plastic toy. This effect is achieved not only by the controller being a faithful likeness to the Fender Stratocaster, but also the fact that the makers have wisely decided to put the color-coded fret stickers on the edge of the guitar's neck, rather than on the frets themselves - which makes for better game immersion. Seems like you're actually rocking out with an honest-to-goodness axe of glory right? And with ten frets, it's twice the fun.
The only thing missing from this information smorgasbord? Pricing. Yup, there's still no word as of yet about what price the Rock Band peripheral's going for. Even with its looks, its functions, and the fact that you can manipulate sound with it through reverb, flange, wah, delay and more - the question of will it fly off the shelves can also be decided by price, so let's all hope they picked a good one.
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I think its just a more difficult version of Guitar Hero imo.. oO
but it's cooler!!! heh jk. they have alot of similarities coming form the same design studio, rock band's guitar has ten buttons the ones on the lower frets are used for the main play the ones on the higher frets(closer to the body of the guitar) are used for solos, the buttons are narrower for easier hammer-ons and pull-offs. I did read in an article that the x-plorer guitar for the 360 can be used with rock band it just wont have the five higher fret buttons, no word on the sg controller for the ps2.
They're all the same color, so I assume that it doesn't matter how you hold the controller. Seems to me like it's just the Guitar hero controller though. It says 10 buttons but they're all color coded the same. Also, theres 20 buttons to accomadate left handed people.
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