Coming this September to whichever stores will have it, Dropmix is a collaboration between toy maker Hasbro and music
game masters Harmonix that sees players using cards placed on a game board to create unique mixes of licensed music via connected mobile device.
Not exact matches
Perhaps best known for the Rock Band franchise, as well as creating the first two
games in the Guitar Hero series,
Harmonix have proven themselves to be
masters of the rhythm action genre.
Sure, Bejeweled is a fun time - sink in the vein of Tetris, and Phase is an interesting novelty from the rhythm
game masters at
Harmonix, but none of these titles have any real depth.
In the years since Amplitude,
Harmonix developers have become
masters at making rhythm
games fun for everybody.
Over 50 heavy hitters of the interactive entertainment industry have appeared on the show: celebrated Japanese creator of Lumines, 99 Nights, and Rez, Tetsuya Mizuguchi; British
game developer legend Peter Molyneux; Sims creator Will Wright; Sony's former Worldwide Studios» president, Phil Harrison; Neil Young, former Vice President of Electronic Arts; the new enfant terrible on the block and mastermind behind cult title Katamari Damacy, Keita Takahashi; the creative mind behind the highly anticipated LittleBigPlanet, Mark Healey; Assassin's Creed producer, Jade Raymond; French visionary David Cage; Guitar Hero and RockBand creator, and
Harmonix» CEO, Alex Rigopulos; EA's A & R director, Alan Yu; Crytek's Cevat Yerli; British author and columnist Steven Poole, aka «Trigger Happy»; Japanese music - action
game master Masaya Matsuura, and many more.
This
game is developed by
Harmonix, the
masters behind Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
Master recordings may be the norm these days, but there's still a sense that Guitar Hero World Tour is an «As made famous by...» The Rock Band series is now two
games and many dozens of downloadable songs deep, and developer
Harmonix, having abandoned the Guitar Hero series it designed and launched to work on Rock Band with MTV, was the first to present this formula - two Guitar Hero - style inputs, drums and vocals - to the public.