Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock- Quest Mode TrailerAre you prepared for some Questing of the rock variety?
Are you ready to become a warrior of rock? Or to embody the spirit of many rock legends? Well, as opposed to Rock Band 3, which is taking a more realistic approach to playing plastic (or now real) instruments, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock looks to be going insane, with all fantasy craziness that looks ripped straight off an Iron Maiden Album cover.
Basically, they are developing a story for Guitar Hero that revolves around the Demi-God of Rock, voiced by Gene Simmons of KISS fame, who battles against some mechanical creature thingy, and eventually gets turned into stone. But not before he is able to call out to his rock friends, all those memorable Guitar Hero characters.
In addition to this fantasy vibe they are giving the game, they are providing each of the characters you can recruit into your band special powers, such as being able to transform into a “night elf”, which gives them different abilities in the actual game mode, such as having a constant 2x multiplier.
It looks like they are shaping up Quest Mode to become the primary feature of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, and if I’m honest, I’m not too convinced that a rhythm game needs a contrived story to really appeal to players. Making the actual game part enjoyable with a good song list and DLC support is probably more important. It kind of seems that this style is there to appeal to a broader audience of players, who have gotten used to objective based gameplay in all games, as opposed to just people who enjoy playing (imitating?) music.
Even so, it’s nice to see them trying something different with the franchise, as opposed to simply rolling out a re-skinned song pack. I’m sure we’ll get to see when Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock is released by Activision later this year.
On this weeks episode of Ignition we talk about what’s been going on at Infinity Ward (including why it was Matt’s fault) and argue whether or not it spells the end for independent developers in 1 minute, 5000 questions. We also cover all the latest news including: Sony’s degrading game demos; the next Tomb Raider game; the Microsoft Courier tablet; Ubuntu’s re-branding; Indiana Jones 5; Space Invaders: The Movie and much more.
Duration: 64 minutes
No one knows if IW will last the day at the moment, with an apparently battle between and developer and publisher brewing for months
[There has been three new updates since this post was originally published]
Breaking last night in a story ran by G4, rumours have been filling the net about what is happening at Infinity Ward, developers of the Call of Duty games.
The G4 story explained that, quite dramatically, the studio heads, Jason West and Vince Zampella, of IW had gone missing, apparently summoned to Activision for a meeting. In the mean time, security staff had turned up at their HQ and were not telling the staff anything.
