93 tracks and a Gene Simmons narration didn’t do much for Activision’s Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock launch. The latest music-rhythm game to fizzle since the sharp decline of sales last year, financial analyst Cowen and Company software figures report the game having sold a paltry 86,000 units in its first five days on shelves. […]
A more guitar, and story, driven experience than we have seen in the past, is there enough in this update to continue the franchise, or should we finally give our blistered palms a rest?
To help celebrate the launch of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, one of the franchise’s first guitar peripherals was added to the Hard Rock Hall of Fame. The item was donated by the United Kingdom’s biggest KISS fan, Kevin Curtis, and signed by the band’s frontman (and narrator of Warriors of Rock) Gene Simmons. The […]
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock promises over 90 tracks in its setlist, the vast majority of which being the original master recordings. The exceptions, it turns out, are those tracks being completely re-recorded specifically for the game. Alice Cooper’s “No More Mr. Nice Guy”, and the Runaway’s “Cherry Bomb” have been recreated in the studio […]