Freestyle’s Guitar Hero Live is an interesting, technically ambitious deviation from expectation, and its guitar also reflects the changing tides for the franchise. Initially, its custom design looks familiar, like Guitar Hero 5’s axe, almost Fender in its shape. Very little stands out as remarkable. It’s small. It’s plastic. It’s a Guitar Hero guitar.
It isn’t until you hold the device that its familiarity truly sets in – and it’s strongest differentiating factor smacks you across the fingers.
Guitar Hero Live abandons the series’ usual five-fret, five-color system for creating chords. Green, red, yellow, blue, and orange buttons, each set to a single slot on the fret board, are a thing of the past. Guitar Hero Live’s guitar uses just the top three frets, divided down the middle to create one button on the inside, and another on the outside of each fret. The six buttons are then divided in a binary black/white, rather than singular colors. The buttons on the inside of the fret board are labeled black, and the outside frets are labeled white.
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It isn’t until you hold the device that its familiarity truly sets in – and it’s strongest differentiating factor smacks you across the fingers.
Guitar Hero Live abandons the series’ usual five-fret, five-color system for creating chords. Green, red, yellow, blue, and orange buttons, each set to a single slot on the fret board, are a thing of the past. Guitar Hero Live’s guitar uses just the top three frets, divided down the middle to create one button on the inside, and another on the outside of each fret. The six buttons are then divided in a binary black/white, rather than singular colors. The buttons on the inside of the fret board are labeled black, and the outside frets are labeled white.
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