hey everybody what is up and welcome to rock gamer your number one stop for all things
Rock Band 4, Guitar Hero Live and Amplitude related.
and before we get started with today's news i wanted to let you guys know we are doing
another episode of the living room clutter podcast with dacespace and we've got special
guest nick from rockbanddaily joining us we are going ot be talking about all the new
guitar hero and rock band 4 news that has come out over the past two weeks or so and
it'll be a great episode it'll be uploaded later tonight if you don't catch it live you
can see it later on my youtube channel but lets get started with the huge amount of guitar
hero news that came out today.probably the biggest piece of news that you may have missed
over is that activision posted on their blog over at the guitar hero website talking about
the feature known as Hero Powers.
Now we've heard a little bit about hero powers, but we don't really know much about it.
Hero Powers is basically an evolution of Star Power in previous Guitar Hero games so in
previous games you'd deploy star power and you'd get a single way to get an edge when
playing you'd get like a score bonus similar to overdrive when you're playing rock band
but now what they are doing with hero powers is that you can now deploy one of several
different kinds of game modifiers.
Now they've revealed seven of them today there are going to be more than 7 and they are going
to be revealing more in the months to come but lets take a look at some of the modifiers
that were revealed today.
So regarding the hero powers it looks like they can be activated two ways.
One way is by actually pushing the hero power button that's going to be included on the
guitar controller or you can do the traditional way by tilting your guitar as well.
It seems like from the article and the blog post that was written on activision's website
that you can use these powers in the single player in guitar hero live or basically on
guitar tv and you can basically choose one modifier for one song so you can't have three
modifiers picked and use three different one's in the song so once you make your choice you
have to use it and i guess you unlock modifiers by completing different challenges in the
single player as well and possibly through guitar hero tv.
So the first hero power is called double multiplier and as the name suggests it basically doubles
your score when you're playing it's sort of similar to what we've seen in past games so
dial down was another one that was introduced today so dial down say your playing a song
and say you get to a really difficult guitar section of the song where there is a ton of
notes and you can deploy it and the game will just remove the notes from the chart and while
you won't have to play the notes you'll get a huge score multiplier as part of it.
And on the opposite end of the spectrum we've got dial up dial up is the complete opposite
of dial down say you're playing a really easy part of a song and you're not really feeling
challenged you can activate dial up and it'll actually play more notes at you and you'll
even get a bigger score multiplier during an easy part of a song.
So the next one is called Clear Highway it's sort of a little bit like Dial Down the only
difference is if you're playing a really tough section of a song and you deploy it it'll
just make it so that every note will be actually counted as a play.
So if there's 16 notes and you don't want to play it the game will actually count it
as if you've played those notes correctly and you'll get a huge score multiplier as
part of it.Score chaser is for those who aren't maybe satisfied with the cap on score multipliers
so it'll actually take the score multiplier and double it.
The second last one that was revealed was safety net and as the name suggests a safety
net say you activate it and during the period it's activated if you miss any notes that
won't impact your score multiplier or scoring streak and the last one that was revealed
is called invincibility.
It sounds kind of similar to some of the other one's I've talked about.
This one i guess is during guitar hero tv if you're playing it it'll count all notes
as temporary hits and missing a note won't impact your score at all so that does it for
all the hero powers lets go onto some of the other news that came out today.
Turning now to the other Guitar Hero Live news if you guys are going to San Diego Comic
Con this week Guitar Hero Live will be playable there so if you guys are interested in playing
you can go check out Activision they'll apparently have a booth setup there for you.
The other Guitar Hero news that came out was that for us Canadians who are planning on
pre-ordering the game if you go through Amazon there was a discount of $30.00 off the price.
So typically Canadians will pay $129.99 but if you did it through Amazon for i think this
past week I'm not sure if the deal is still on but you guys can go check it was listed
as $99.99 Canadian which is a great deal if you ask me much cheaper than Rock Band 4's
guitar bundle the other piece of news that came out actually a couple weeks ago but i
didn't notice it until today was that Game Zone the video game website uploaded a bunch
of B-Roll footage from Guitar Hero TV i guess that was left over from E3.
And it features basically 7 minutes or so of Guitar Hero TV footage with a bunch of
different songs being played so if you guys are looking for some more guitar hero tv footage
you guys can go check it out in the link below.
Turning now to rock band 4 news we had a couple pieces of news that broke this week as you
know with E3 every year they always have the best of awards they give and Rock Band 4 won
a ton of them they won IGN they won a handful of other won's for best music, best rhythm,
best coop game and i kind of wonder what kind of other games were in t he category but i
am sure a lot of it was against guitar hero live.
I mean when you compare both games when it comes to multiplayer i think it's pretty safe
to say that rock band 4 will be the better game when it comes to playing with other people
in your living room because technically you can play with up to 6 people whereas with
guitar hero live you can only play with up to two people.
Turning now to our final piece of Rock Band 4 news Nick Chester whose Harmonix PR fellow
basically sent me a text saying hey here's what we're doing for comic con i had an exchange
with him where i asked hey are you guys going to be at comic con this week and it turns
out while harmonix won't be at comic con they will be showing off the game at a pub called
Henry's Pub this thursday starting from 7 PM and there's an event page where you guys
can go register i'll put a link to it in the description below and basically they'll have
rock band 4 there for you to play they'll be doing pre-orders if you want to pre-order
the game you can do it there and you can get upto 34 free bonus songs and they'll also
be giving away free madcatz prizes and on top of that you can also register to win a
free guitar bundle as well so that's really cool.
There'll also be some other stuff oging on they'll have a DJ after they are done showing
Rock Band 4 off.
It seems like a good deal if you ask me i'd go if i could but i'm living in Canada and
i'm stuck in my igloo for the whole week so unfortunately i won't be going there but if
you guys are going there i'd love to know what your guys hands on impressions are of
the game but that basically does it for all the rock band 4 and guitar hero live news
from today and stay tuned for our podcast later tonight and i want to thank you guys
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