So…Is shooting a gun anything like holding an Xbox 360 controller, or a keyboard and mouse? Is pressing ‘w’ on a keyboard or pressing ‘forward’ on a thumb stick anything like walking? Is pressing ’space bar’ or the jump button on your controller anything like jumping? The answer is no. With the exception of duck hunt, some flight sims with joy sticks, and race games with steering wheels, no game has controls in anyway related to the actual thing the game is simulating.

Point being, if your going to talk crap about a game that lets people have fun and interact like Guitar Hero, you better also talk crap about 90% of all games that have ever existed.

I guess you can do that ‘The first taste of proper Guitar Hero’ for the PC schtick in the review. Interesting for the PC only crowd certainly, but and I can’t stress this enough, what they really should be hoping for is PC Rock Band, via any means possible. I think you should endeavour to get some quality time with it Kieron, via one of your console methods, I can’t imagine you not loving it. It combines those pure gaming thrills with all the fun of four people sharing an experience, and (most likely) alcohol.

Towards a PC hacked up version of Rock Band, highly likely. It seems like all the Rock Band peripherals are very much moddable, I’ve already seen a double bass pedal mod of the drums and a cupholder, along with talk of much more complicated stuff with electronic drum set parts. The interface is there to be cloned and the internet is there to provide all the slightly dodgy song bundling you could ever need.

I certainly paid attention – say – Fretts on Fire.

KG

A lot of the internet sems to have rated Guitar Hero without this context and Rock band with three friends is like everything you loved about Guitar Hero multiplied by three. It will be the game that people are hammering on your door at 3 in the morning to play. It will be the game that makes women want to stay with you indefinitely (there’s downloadable content now). Even John can join in because he seems to have no philosophical objection to the drum controller.

It breaks down barriers it unites people in joy, standing against it is like standing against a tidal wave of pure, intense delight.

KG

And I don’t hate people who don’t like it. I feel they may be a little cold inside, but I can live with them. If they never got any joy out of air guitaring, again fair enough – that’s what I’d liken it the most closely to, just a more ‘tangible’ version of air guitaring.

Just as long as they don’t try and wrench the ‘Guitar’ out of my hands during More Than A Feeling. Otherwise there will be blood.

KG