14 DAY TRIAL // Guitar Hero Live has just gotten a behind-the-scenes trailer, explaining some of the upcoming shredding simulator's features.
Developer FreeStyleGames is currently trying to reboot Activision's world famous rock star video game and bring it back into the limelight after a hiatus of over five years.
The behind-the-scenes video shows the developers at work, promising an overhauled experience that will deliver a more authentic rock star feeling.
Taking a step forward from the series' cartoonish and arcade roots, Guitar Hero Live will enable those with a passion for live music to get a better feel for what it's like to perform with your band on stage.
The developers talk about how their own passion influenced and shaped the video game franchise, and how their own experience contributed to the realization of the iconic controllers and the first-person gameplay perspective.
The devs used real life performances, filming actual crowds and musicians playing, in order to convey a realistic in-game experience. This enabled them to incorporate some pretty exciting features, such as the crowd’s and the other band members' reaction to when you're doing well or missing notes.
An exciting year for rhythm gaming
The video also highlighted some new features coming to the guitar controller, showing that the four colored buttons have been replaced by a much more stylish and challenging setup.
The plastic guitar now has two rows of three buttons each, allowing those looking for a challenge to enjoy more difficult air guitar sequences that resemble real-life playing a little more, due to the fact that you can actually get chord-like shapes now.
Harmonix is, coincidentally, also rebooting its own music-based franchise, Rock Band 4, so it's going to be a pretty good year for fans of rhythm gaming.
Both Guitar Hero Live and Rock Band 4 are expected to drop sometime later this year, the latter headed to the PlayStation 4 home console from Sony and the Xbox One computer entertainment system from Microsoft, and the former also headed to the PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii U.
