Guitar Hero Live answers the calls for an encore

Another band’s getting back together, and it wants to explore new directions

01 It doesn’t take an expert industry analyst to explain why your once treasured plastic axe has been gathering dust for the last few years. Guitar Hero sparked a revolution in 2005 that extended beyond the realm of gamers, but over time the novelty of donning a cheap-looking peripheral and strutting around to ‘Killer Queen’ for an audience of tipsy student mates simply wore off. But with Guitar Hero Live, UK studio FreeStyle Games hopes to rekindle your dormant enthusiasm for simulated six-string heroics. It’s the biggest step forward the series has seen since the first game; from the breadth of genres it covers to a new first-person, live-action presentation style and – you might want to sit down for this – six buttons, split into two rows of three. As if…

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Official PlayStation Magazine - UK Edition (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 1, 2015

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