Sentences with phrase «plastic guitar»

The 6 button configuration is ingenious and offers the most authentic plastic guitar playing experience out there.

At first, it seemed like an expensive arcade fad, letting people rock out with plastic guitars on their home consoles.

But wait, you can now get Guitar Hero Live and two plastic guitar controllers for # 29.99 at Argos on PS4 and Xbox One in the Guitar Hero Live Supreme Party Edition.

Yes, I purchased Guitar Hero Warrior of Rock, the game whose lackluster song selection, finger blistering difficulty and stilted narration — courtesy of a bored Gene Simmons — combined to sound the death knell of an era of plastic guitar peripherals.

Jamming on plastic guitars and pretending to sing at parties was all the rage back in the 2000s thanks in large part to Harmonix and RedOctane who made the rock and roll rhythm game genre famous with the first Guitar Hero game back in 2005.

Before they made people boogie in living rooms with Dance Central or shred plastic guitars with Rock Band, the people at Harmonix made Amplitude, a fantastic, underappreciated rhythm game for the PS2.

As someone who plays actual instruments, the idea of substituting a string for a button seemed lacking from a musical perspective — plus I never got a good feel for plastic guitars and fret - sized buttons.

But it was Guitar Hero's rock soundtrack that reinvigorated the genre and prompted people across the nation to stand up and strum plastic guitar peripherals.

Since the Guitar Hero franchise burst onto the scene, making plastic guitar wankery the new black, there have been two musical legends I've wanted to get my rock on with: Prince and AC / DC.

As fake plastic guitars go, this one looks pretty sweet and much less like a Fisher - Price product.

First, you use an actual guitar, not a little plastic guitar with colourful Simon Says buttons.

The basic concept is the same — you get a new plastic guitar, and you'll use it to simulate playing as a lead guitarist across a variety of music tracks.

Poking at that stupid plastic guitar was just too ridiculously fun.

Randy falls back into one of his bad habits, and it's not even the one involving plastic guitars.

When a franchise oversaturates its own marketplace and directly competes with itself because a publisher wants too much of a good thing, the alarm bells are bound to go off - as we learned thanks to a certain extinct music game featuring plastic guitars and a billion unnecessary semi-sequels all clamouring for attention.

I remember scoffing at the Guitar Hero games before I tried them, thinking that there was no way I'd ever enjoy a music game that was played with a silly plastic guitar controller, but now I waste hours and hours on nailing the hardest solos.

Plastic guitars flew off of shelves into the hands of eager gamers — and unlike many fads in gaming, which come and go cyclically, this one made everybody happy.

Guitar Hero Live, on the other hand, is actually something fresh and unique and reminds you why you loved plastic guitar games in the first place.

With the advent of not only Rock Band 4, but also the impending announcement of a new game in the Guitar Hero series, gamers might be feeling the need to dust off their old plastic guitars and get back into the groove.

In today's world of plastic guitars and drum kits, Runner used the music as a gameplay element rather than a goal unto itself.

The point is, as someone who plays a variety of instruments in real life, I have my fair share of musician friends who think rocking out with plastic guitars is stupid.

Before they made people boogie in living rooms with Dance Central or shred plastic guitars with Rock Band, the people at Harmonix made Amplitude, a fantastic, underappreciated rhythm game for the PS2.

Surrounded by a hundred or so fans, Oden strummed a plastic guitar that in his massive hands looked like Tiny Tim's ukulele.

Coincidentally, Randy and D.J. are excited about a potential new Rock Band, while Paul tries to remember the name of that game he played with a plastic guitar.

Activision has profited from skateboarding, plastic guitars and first - person shooting.

Nothing screams «party» like pretending to play along to a bunch of rock songs with a plastic guitar controller.

Since the dawn of plastic guitars and toy drum sets that hook up with your gaming console and let you feel like a rockstar one band has eluded every faux - rocker out there.

After many generations of brushing aside peripheral - driven games as pure novelty, Harmonix proved to us all that not only could a game bundled with a plastic guitar become a killer app, but that we also would gladly pay $ 169.99 for a virtual band in a box.

The Wii Remote air guitar literally has more features and more ways to play than the plastic guitars in other music games.

If you really loved those songs from the good old days when you were still learning how to play five colored notes with only four fingers on the neck of your plastic guitar, then this game is for you.

Players could actually make music with their plastic guitars and drum sets.

Over at GAME, you can currently grab a PS3 or Xbox 360 copy of Guitar Hero Live complete with its plastic guitar controller, all for just shy of # 10.

It made the whole game feel unique and brought me back to the very first time I picked up a plastic guitar and learned to play.

Guitar Hero and Rock Band make you feel like a rock god, whether you're shredding on a plastic guitar, smashing the drums, laying down a bass line or howling into a microphone.

For those of you in that group, which I'm sure includes the majority of gamers, there's a jam session mode in which you can just play around with your plastic guitar.

SWERY himself even came to the stage brandishing a plastic guitar controller.

Plastic guitars and drum kits had become standard for at least several iterations in the rhythm / music - genre, but most of these were simply standard controllers molded into the shape of make - believe instruments.

Having spent most of my teenage years caught up in the music gaming revolution I played my plastic guitar until my fingers bled and was often refereed to as the one woman band of PlusXp.

Guitar Hero Live may stumble with cheesy live action footage of cover bands and fans but it proves that it is still fun to play with a plastic guitar.

Guitar Hero Live dared to change up the plastic guitar formula and it is all the better game overall for it.

As we merrily tap away on our plastic guitars and extravagantly priced mock - turntables, it can be easy to forget that the vast influence of the rhythm genre began with the psychedelic adventures of a paper - thin, rapping dog.

If the plastic guitars, pretend drumkits and front - men wailing into a mike of Rock Band 3 are all a bit too, well, rockist, it might be worth putting up with the downstairs neighbour's murderous glances by trying something new.

Mastered the plastic guitar, bass and drums (don't sing on your own it's weird) of Guitar Hero and Rock Band?

It's a dark day for Activision... as well as the last few dedicated fans who still cling to their plastic guitars.

Introducing a new guitar with a 2 × 3 fret layout instead of the standard 1 × 5 layout, it uses video instead of polygonal graphics in an attempt to freshen up the plastic guitar genre.

Instead of a plastic guitar, you used a plastic turntable, pressing buttons and spinning it in time with the on - screen prompts.