DJ hero looks to be the next promising title from the same people who brought us guitar hero and let us mash five buttons to our hearts content while listening to people who knew how to play guitar tell us to pick up the real instrument and learn that instead.  I guess with the wild success of the Guitar Hero games it was inevitable to branch out into developing Hero games based on multiple instruments and it is welcome with me.  I was getting tired of Guitar Hero, and Rock Band as well as Guitar Hero World Tour.  The good news is that these games can go to just about any instrument so long as it does not seem too stupid.  I’m sure some people wouldn’t mind playing Harp Hero, but the likelihood of us seeing that actually made is, I would hope, non-existent.

It’s interesting that they would turn to the turntables next instead of making something like Piano hero or something along those lines.  I guess it takes less to make a turntable simulation work.  I’m glad to see them expanding on these games because it opens up different genres of music to be played via videogame and expands the fanbase for these rhythm games. I’m just glad it is not another rehash of the same idea and is taking the Hero series in a new direction.  I would think the mechanics of this game would be difficult to pick up since it is way different from fake strumming.  The controller consists of 3 buttons, a turntable, a cross fader, and a Euphoria button.  Based upon all of this I may have another fairly useless fake plastic instrument setting somewhere in my living room taking up space…unless the playlist sucks.

Tags: DJ Hero, Guitar Hero, Video Games

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