![]() ![]() The phenomenon - and make no mistake, that's precisely what it is - of Guitar Hero has started a chain reaction whose next stage, Rock Band, is a game that can turn the musically illiterate into a swaggering fantasy covers band in seconds.Įurogamer has journeyed to Neversoft in California to witness first-hand what promises to be the next major step forward in Guitar Hero: World Tour. Meanwhile, Activision is soon to release Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, billed as an interactive history of the pickled cock-rockers, that lets you jam through the key moments of their career complete with biographical insight along the way. It sold five times more copies on the latter. Take living-dead shame heroes Motley Crue, whose last single was released simultaneously on iTunes and Rock Band via Xbox Live. And established acts are discovering a new lease of life through the medium. ![]() On the other, foreign bands can now crack America simply on the strength of featuring on the soundtrack to a top-selling sports game. On one side, there are the clunking corporate dinosaurs like EMI, which continues to flounder in a post-iPod world, its business precariously reliant on the latest dinner party vacuity from a whiny pseud who likes to scrawl embarrassing slogans on the back of his hand. ![]() It says something pretty significant when some of the most exciting and promising innovations in the music business are coming straight out of the videogames industry. ![]()
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