The 6 button configuration is ingenious and offers the most authentic
plastic guitar playing experience out there.
Not exact matches
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.
Nothing screams «party» like pretending to
play along to a bunch of rock songs with a
plastic guitar controller.
Just in case you've been living in Gollum's Cave for the last decade and managed to miss the franchise, the only way I can sum it up is that you are given a
plastic children's
guitar with five buttons on it so you can pretend to
play along with professional musicians.
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.
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.
As far as the
plastic instruments go, they weren't trying to be 100 % faithful to the real thing — they were just trying to give us an approximate feel for how to
play a
guitar, and honestly, Harmonix did it in a way that felt much more true than Neversoft did.
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.
They did a really great job of making a simplified version of
playing the actual instrument and at times I even thought it was easier to
play a song on real
guitar than on a tiny
plastic one.
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.
Back in the Rock Band / Guitar Hero heyday, I used to love seeing dozens of my friends
play with
plastic peripherals and having a good time strumming fake
guitars or singing terrible karaoke.