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There is a number of people that love to play very realistic video games. Those people want to feel like they are the one in the game and in the moment. One of those many games is Guitar Hero. Now, they have brought the reality of video games to a whole new level, making it feel like you are really in the moment. Guitar Hero has been a very popular video game series, and now they have brought it to a whole new level. The first Guitar Hero, released on November 8th, 2005, began the whole realistic guitar video game movement. This game came with the game disc, guitar, neckstrap, and stickers to decorate the guitar. The songs included “Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple, “I Love Rock ‘n Roll” by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and and Ozzy Osbourne's
There have been many developers of all of these games, including Activision, RedOctane, Activision Blizzard, and Aspyr with each game designed by Harmonix. Now in 2015, they made a new Guitar Hero called “Guitar Hero Live”. This game was designed by FreeStyle Games and published by Activision. Trying to make this game better than all of the rest of the Guitar Hero games out there, they decided to make live crowds and remake the whole entire guitar. With the live crowds, there are real people that were recorded just for this game, showing their reactions to music played well and also music played under expectations. Also, with the new guitar, it makes the game easier for beginners but harder for returners to play. The guitar now has three rows of two buttons, making it feel more like a real guitar by having to move fingers between different frets. These different ideas combined really makes the game have more realistic gameplay. Next, other people’s reviews on this
People do the same for this game, talking about the positives and negatives this game has. The first review, by IGN, gave “Guitar Hero Live” a 7.9/10, saying, “We love the new controller design”. Also, a negative said by IGN is how people “can’t buy songs”. Another review by a place called Gamespot gave this new game a 6/10, saying the game “reinvents music gaming’s core mechanics”. On the negative side, they believe there were “poor song choices”. People feel this is very true, seeing how they put pop songs in a game that was all about rock and roll. At the same time, people think it is a good way to sell it to the younger generations, due to the type of music they enjoy.
Known as the most popular guitar game, “Guitar Hero Live” has really reinvented the definition of realistic gameplay with real crowds and also a new and different guitar controller. People fell in love with the game since the first one came out in 2005, and both FreeStyle Games and Activision did not want to disappoint anybody with this new game. With that in mind, they did a really well job for not having a Guitar Hero game since 2010 with “Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock”, and hopefully they continue to make more of these games and make it even

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