Plug in and play . . . a real guitar!

MetalDog

Ubisoft's new interactive trainer Rocksmith, which lets you plug in any real guitar with a standard quarter-inch jack and strum on PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, strikes a novel chord by teaching mastery of actual instruments.


http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/blogs/gear-up/rocksmith-inside-the-do-or-die-development-of-the-first-real-guitar-video-game-20111018

rcaz

So they've taken all the thinking out of playing music? Class.

TeddyTedson

I've seen a few reviews of this and apparently its fails as a rhythm game and as a guitar instructor.
Maybe it might be good for people who already know the basics of how to play the guitar, for learning a few new songs.
Hopefully they try again with a better attempt.

Dord

Ehh, I think I'll just play it myself thanks. It's much cheaper!

Bod1

Dord wrote: »

Ehh, I think I'll just play it myself thanks. It's much cheaper!

Have you considered that it might not be meant for muso's and that it might actually encourage kids to learn instead of pushing buttons on a plastic guitar ?

MetalDog

Bod1 wrote: »

Have you considered that it might not be meant for muso's and that it might actually encourage kids to learn instead of pushing buttons on a plastic guitar ?

That seems to be the idea behind it, but it does need more work to make it something that could be started from scratch with no prior knowledge.