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Guitar Hero has become a cultural phenomenon in the world of computer video games. The guitar, software and accessories are availabe in every game platforms, including Wii, Playstation, Xbox, etc. Guitar Hero is a series of music video games published by RedOctane in partnership with Activision. The series is distinguished by its use of a plastic guitar peripheral to simulate the playing of music, represented screen by colored notes that correspond to fret buttons on the controller.

Heidi Klum Guitar Hero

They were recently a controversial ad with model Heidi Klum playing Guitar Hero in his underwear! The games support individual play as well as cooperative modes and competitive for both players. The series has used a wide range of licensed and independent rock music tracks from the 1960s, the decades at present, including tracks from many master tapes. In total, six games have been released for video game consoles. Games were also released for mobile phones and the Nintendo DS portable game.

History

The series was originally developed by Harmonix Music Systems from 2005 to 2007. Then development tasks of the series were transferred to Neversoft, whose the first effort, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock was released October 28, 2007 in North America.

The Guitar Hero franchise has become a cultural phenomenon, making many appearances in popular culture, and games have become extremely popular as games and recreation. The series has sold 23 million units, earning $ 1.6 billion in retail sales.

Guitar Controller

Guitar Hero is unusual because it comes with a controller device modeled a black Gibson SG guitar. Rather than a classic controller. This guitar controller is the input Principal for the game Play the game with the guitar controller simulates playing an actual guitar, except it uses five colored "fret buttons" and a "Strum bar" instead of frets and strings. The development of Guitar Hero was inspired by the arcade game from Konami GuitarFreaks, which at the time, had not seen much exposure in the North American market; RedOctane, already selling guitar controllers in the form of imported copies of GuitarFreaks, Harmonix approached about creating a game to use a brand new guitar controller.

The concept was to have the game of the amplitude with the visuals Karaoke Revolution, two of which had been developed by Harmonix. The game was critically acclaimed and received numerous awards for his innovative guitar peripheral and his band, which included 47 playable rock songs (most of which were covers of popular songs artists and groups from the 1960s through modern rock). Guitar Hero has sold nearly 1.5 million copies to date.

Guitar Hero II Release

The popularity of the series increased dramatically with the release of Guitar Hero II on PlayStation 2 in 2006. With an enhanced multiplayer mode, a better mark-recognition system, and 64 songs, he became the fifth best-selling video game of 2006. The PlayStation 2 version of the game was offered both separately and in a bundle with a cherry red Gibson SG guitar controller. Guitar Hero II was released for the Xbox 360 in April 2007 with an exclusive Gibson guitar controller X-Plorer and 10 other songs, among others. About 3 million units of Guitar Hero II have sold on PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360.

The last game of the Guitar Hero series to be developed by Harmonix was Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s for the PlayStation 2, which was published in July 2007. This final version of the game, change the visuals from Guitar Hero II, and shorten the list of songs with no bonus tracks was not also well received by critics.

Transition

The two transition RedOctane and Harmonix have experienced changes in 2006. RedOctane was bought by Activision in June while it was announced in September that Harmonix would be purchased by MTV Networks. As a consequence of two purchases, Harmonix would no longer be developing future games in the Guitar Hero series. Instead, the development would go to Neversoft, a subsidiary of Activision known for developing the Tony Hawk's series of skateboarding games.

Neversoft

Neversoft was chosen at the helm of the Guitar Hero series after the founder Neversoft, Joel Jewett, admitted to RedOctane founders Kai and Charles Huang, as its development team for Tony Hawk's Project 8 went to work the weekend just to play Guitar Hero. In 2007, Harmonix and MTV Games has released a new music track through rival publisher Electronic Arts, called Rock Band. It expanded on the gameplay popularized by the Guitar Hero series by adding instruments drums and a microphone, allowing players to simulate playing songs as a band, if this feature has been implemented in Guitar Hero World Tour.

Guitar Hero III:

Legends of Rock was released the end of 2007 for the PC PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, and Mac platforms. The title is the first installment in the series to include wireless guitars that came with the game and also the first to release a special bundle with two guitars. The game features Slash and Tom Morello as a playable characters in addition to the current avatars of fiction, both guitarists performed motion capture to be used for character animation in the game

Guitar Hero III World Tour (aka Guitar Hero IV)

Guitar Hero World Tour, formerly known as Guitar Hero IV is the fourth complete game of the series and was released October 26, 2008 for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii. Analysts had predicted that future Guitar Hero games in 2008 would include additional instrument peripherals to compete with Rock Band. Guitar Hero World Tour has been confirmed as in development following the announcement of the merger between Activision and Vivendi Games in December 2007. Activision Bobby Kotick, CEO, announced April 21, 2008 that Guitar Hero World Tour will diversify into other instruments including vocals. Guitar Hero World Tour includes a battery and comes with a new controller Drum Set. A greater number of musicians in the real world appear as playable characters, including the great Jimi Hendrix, Billy Corgan, Sting and Ozzy Osbourne. Guitar Hero World Tour also offers the creation of custom songs that can be shared with others.

On September 4, 2007, Billboard announced that the band Aerosmith was "working. Closely with the creators of Guitar Hero IV, which will be dedicated the music group "The February 15, 2008, Activision announced that Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, an expansion set for the series would be published on June 29, 2008.

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is being developed by Neversoft for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions, while the Wii version of the game is developed by Vicarious Visions and the PlayStation 2 version is developed by Budcat Creations. The game features a selection of the track consists of 60% of songs from Aerosmith with other songs from Joe Perry solo work or artists who have inspired or performed with Aerosmith, Run DMC, including also in the works: Activision in 2008 SEC cited that they plan to release Guitar Hero: Metallica by the first quarter of 2009.

By all expectations Guitar Hero will again be the number one selling computer games of the year in 2008. Guitar Hero on the phenomenon of life!

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