Guitar Hero 5This upcoming title from Activision will let you play four of anything. Now, nobody has to fight over who gets to play the guitar. There won’t be any snoozing on boring bass songs, and you can annoy the sin out of everyone around you by having four people tapping rubber guitars at the same time (if you can fit that many in your living room). Hey, you can even have your own little barbershop quartet and have four people singing. Whatever you do, it’ll be represented that way on stage as you play, which is is sort of neat. Sort of.
This four-player play-whatever-you-want-however-you-want setup will be available in all game modes. A new “Rockfest” mode will allow people to compete against each other. The difficulty level will go up as you hit sequential correct notes, and drop as you miss them. Points are tallied, the highest points wins, and you are just the coolest thing on the planet. The full list of songs hasn’t been announced yet for this title, but info has been dropped that the lineup will include:
The Rolling Stones – “Sympathy for the Devil”
Bob Dylan – “All Along The Watchtower”
The White Stripes – “Blue Orchid”
Santana – “No One To Depend On (LIVE)”
Vampire Weekend – “A-Punk”
Tom Petty - “Runnin Down a Dream”
Johnny Cash – “Ring of Fire”
Kings of Leon – “Sex on Fire”
That is an admittedly rad group. Of course, all previously downloaded music will work with Guitar Hero 5 as well.
Rock Band: UnpluggedNo fifth button, no peripherals, no multiplayer. For this PSP title, you’ll use the directional pad to play notes, and you should game with your headphones on. If you’re into music games and use the PSP, you’ll probably try it out. If you don’t use the PSP and don’t care about music games, this isn’t going to convince you of anything. ‘Nuff said.
If you are one of those folks who is excited about Rock Band on the PSP, here is the full track list for Rock Band: Unplugged:
AFI - “Miss Murder”
All-American Rejects - “Move Along”
Audioslave - “Gasoline”
Black Tide - “Show Me the Way”
Freezepop - “Less Talk More Rock”
Jimmy Eat World - “The Middle”
The Killers - “Mr. Brightside”
Lacuna Coil - “Our Truth”
Lamb of God - “Laid to Rest”
Modest Mouse - “Float On”
Queens of the Stone Age - “3’s and 7’s”
System of a Down - “Chop Suey!”
Tenacious D - “Rock Your Socks”
3 Doors Down - “Kryptonite”
Alice in Chains - “Would?”
Blink 182 - “What’s My Age Again”
Foo Fighters - “Everlong”
Judas Priest - “Painkiller”
Lit - “My Own Worst Enemy”
Lush - “De-Luxe”
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - “Where’d You Go?”
Nine Inch Nails - “The Perfect Drug”
Nirvana - “Drain You”
The Offspring - “Come Out and Play (Keep ‘em Separated)”
Pearl Jam - “Alive”
Smashing Pumpkins - “Today”
Social Distortion - “I Was Wrong”
Soundgarden - “Spoonman”
Weezer - “Buddy Holly”
Billy Idol - “White Wedding Part 1″
Bon Jovi - “Livin’ on a Prayer”
Dead Kennedys - “Holiday in Cambodia”
Motörhead - “Ace of Spades”
The Police - “Message in a Bottle”
Siouxsie & the Banshees - “The Killing Jar”
Boston - “More Than a Feeling”
Jackson 5 - “ABC”
Jethro Tull - “Aqualung”
Kansas - “Carry on Wayward Son”
Rush - “The Trees”
The Who - “Pinball Wizard”
PeripheralsBuy this $200 guitar from Logitech, PS3 owners. You know you want to. It has no wires, metal pegs, a rosewood fingerboard, and costs more than my actual guitar. Go on, just sell your soul to Satan right now…
Source: ADDICTED GAMMER
LOS ANGELES--Of the Big Three press conferences at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, Sony's could be the most newsworthy if even half of the announcements rumored to take place actually happen. Whether it's a UMD-less version of the PSP, a new motion-sensing controller, a redesigned PlayStation 3 (perhaps with a price cut), or, say, actual games, the scuttlebutt and speculation surrounding the press conference has been building for months.
