Band Hero is an expansion game to the Guitar Hero series of music video games, due to be released by Activision on November 3, 2009 for the PlayStation 2 and 3, Wii, Xbox 360 and Nintendo DS consoles. The game is structurally similar to Guitar Hero 5, and will support full band play (lead and bass guitar, drums, and vocals) including the drop-in/drop-out and in-song instrument and difficulty change menus, and additional multiplayer modes as Guitar Hero 5.
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1 Gameplay
2 Soundtrack
3 References
4 External links
[edit]Gameplay
See also: Common gameplay elements in the Guitar Hero series and Gameplay in Guitar Hero 5
According to Jeff Gerstmann of Giant Bomb, the game, from its first trailer, appears to be functionally similar to the features of Guitar Hero 5, including bands composed of any combination of four instruments, drop-in/drop-out play, in-song menus to change difficulty and instrument, and additional multiplayer modes compared to Guitar Hero 5's "Rockfest".[1] Taylor Swift, Adam Levine (of Maroon 5), and the band No Doubt have been confirmed to be playable avatars in the game.[2][3][4][5] Artists performed motion capture for their in-game avatars.
The "drum skin" for the Nintendo DS Lite will be used to allow Band Hero players to simulate the console-based version of drumming.
Band Hero for the Nintendo DS will feature the ability to play the same instruments as the console-based versions. Though the game is compatible with the DS, DS Lite, and DSi, only players on the DS Lite will receive the "full band" experience due to the nature of the hardware extensions for the unit. Guitar and bass parts will be played with the same "Guitar Grip" previously created for the Guitar Hero On Tour series, though this unit will not work on the Nintendo DSi due to lack of a GBA slot. The gameplay for guitar and bass is considered to be the fourth iteration of the Guitar Hero On Tour design by developers Vicarious Visions, and have further improvements to meet with different strumming styles.[6] A new "drum skin" that fits over the bottom half of the DS unit will provide four "pads" for drumming that map to the unit's directional pad and face buttons; this design was selected over use of the touch screen due to the inability of the touch screen to recognize near-simultaneous taps, a factor that would have interfered with the drumming experience.[6] The drum skin is limited to the Nintendo DS Lite due to the skin's form factor. The decision to design towards the DS Lite rather than the newer DSi was due to the much larger volume of DS Lite units that have been sold relative to the DSi.[7] The DS microphone will be used for vocal parts. The DS will have 30 of the songs from console versions. The game also supports up to four player multiplayer in a similar manner as Guitar Hero 5 using the DS's local wireless connections, allowing any combination of instruments.[8] However, there is no support for the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection nor plans for additional downloadable content for the DS game.[6]
[edit]Soundtrack
Band Hero will feature more than 65 songs from "mainstream acts", according to MSNBC.[9] The game will also allow Guitar Hero World Tour’s downloadable content to be used within Band Hero, and is expected to also use similar content for Guitar Hero 5.[1] In addition, some on-disc songs from both Guitar Hero World Tour and Guitar Hero Smash Hits will be importable into Band Hero and Guitar Hero 5 for an undetermined fee, with music licensing limiting those that can be transferred.[10] Box Art for the "Band in a Box" version of Band Hero shows that Duffy, Duran Duran, Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue and the Spice Girls will all feature in the game as well.[11]
Song Title Artist Source
"ABC" Jackson 5 [12]
"American Pie" Don McLean [13]
"Black Cat" Janet Jackson [14]
"Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" KT Tunstall [13]
"Dirty Little Secret" The All-American Rejects [12]
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" Poison [13]
"I Want You To Want Me" Cheap Trick [14]
"If You Could Only See" Tonic [14]
"Just a Girl" No Doubt [15]
"Kung Fu Fighting" Carl Douglas [16]
"Let's Dance" David Bowie [13]
"Like Whoa" Aly & AJ [16]
"Love Story" Taylor Swift [3]
"Picture to Burn" Taylor Swift [3]
"Oh, Pretty Woman" Roy Orbison [14]
"She Will Be Loved" Maroon 5 [4]
"Sugar, We're Goin Down" Fall Out Boy [13]
"Take Back the City" Snow Patrol [17]
"Take What You Take" Lily Allen [12]
"Thnks fr th Mmrs" Fall Out Boy [18]
"Turn Off the Light" Nelly Furtado [13]
"Walking on Sunshine" Katrina and the Waves [16]
"You Belong With Me" Taylor Swift [3]
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HAHA, Im so up for this! Maganda pa din exportable din yung mga songs from other GH games plus yung bagong features ng GH5 are in this game aswell.
Buti na lang, mas bibilin ko ito kesa sa GH5!
For sure matutuwa si GF with all the songs here!
