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WRUP: Rockin' out with Aerosmith edition
If you aren't playing that, then what's going to be spinning in your Wii? What are you be playing?
Rock Band guitars don't play nice with Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
Get Fit with new Nintendo Channel videos
The most noteworthy new video added to the Nintendo Channel this week is the first installment of the new longform Wii Fit ad/exercise program "Get Wii Fit with Alyson." In this introductory video, a group of young Disney Channel-ready actors looks on as Alyson undergoes her first Wii Fit Body Test. If you've yet to pick up Wii Fit and would like to see it judging people, watch this. A new edition of "Get Fit with Alyson" is also available on the website.Other new videos include promos for Guitar Hero: Aerosmith and Rock Band, footage of today's WiiWare game, and a bit about the new controls in NCAA Football '09. Step onto the Balance Board, do a stretch or two, and enjoy the videos on the Nintendo Channel!
- Get Wii Fit with Alyson
- Gyrostarr Info Video
- Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Orpheum Video
- Rock Band TV Spot
- NCAA Football 09 All Play Info Video
- Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 3 Info Video (DS)
- My Fashion Studio TV Spot (DS)
Nintendo Channel videos this week are alive with the sound of music games
Aside from the WiiWare videos, this week's update is entirely musical. The aforementioned Samba de Amigo trailer is still enjoyable, and two other trailers focus on upcoming Guitar Hero games: the new DS iteration and the Aerosmith version.
- Developer's Voice - Guitar Hero: On Tour (DS)
- Block Breaker Deluxe Gameplay Trailer
- Cocoto Fishing Master
- Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
- Samba de Amigo
Joystiq pushes play with Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
As promised, there are also some non-Aerosmith songs to look forward to, although Steven Tyler and company dominate the playlist. To give you an idea of what to expect, fourteen of the twenty-five revealed tracks are Aerosmith songs.
Click on past the break to see the partial list in its entirety, or just head on over to Joystiq.
Continue reading Joystiq pushes play with Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
New Guitar Hero: Aerosmith video (Looks Like a Cash-in)
Okay, so that title is (possibly) the last time we're going to be snide about Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. The band might not be our cup of tea, but heck, Guitar Hero is fun, and the not-Aerosmith tracks are actually showing real promise for non-Aerosmith fans.
However, just in case you forgot who the real headline act is, Activision cooked up a video of the title in action, and it oozes Aerosmith. There's plenty of bragging about the band's (admittedly very impressive) achievements, before we cut to 3D models of Stephen Tyler and his fellow grandfathers bouncing about the stage to "Sweet Emotion." Actually, the rubber-lipped, leathery-skinned Tyler proves to be perfect fodder for a caricature -- visually at least, he and Joe Perry seem to be a good fit for a Guitar Hero game.
Gameplay-wise -- and we barely need to mention this, but we shall -- it looks identical. And why not? It's a winning formula.
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith gets more non-Aerosmith tracks
New tracks confirmed for Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (via Game Informer) include Mott the Hoople's "All the Young Dudes", The Kinks with "All Day and All Night," Joan Jett with "Hate Myself for Loving You" and Cheap Trick with "Dream Police." While not entirely clued in to the kids and their crazy music, our interest in this game is growing through each new non-Aerosmith song. What about you all?
[Via Joystiq]
Wii Warm Up: One band hero
Keep in mind, this question isn't about Aerosmith, it's about the bigger picture. Even if it was <insert favorite band name here,> would you be excited? Or, do you find the concept to be monotonous, no matter who the band is?
Good music possible in Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
USA Today mentions "opening acts" in a blurb about the game, and a Best Buy flyer says that you'll be able to "rock out with Aerosmith and all their favorite bands." Hopefully all of Aerosmith's favorite bands are not also Aerosmith. An Aerosmith fansite even goes so far as to say "think Run-DMC." We would like to think that, thank you. Aerosmith has, of course, performed with Run-DMC.
There's also the unfortunate possibility that the "opening act bands" featured in the game could be worse than Aerosmith, but that seems statistically unlikely. And don't forget, even with other bands, it'll be hard to avoid Aerosmith in a game called Guitar Hero: Aerosmith.
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith may include drumming and 'singing' [update]
And how does Steven Tyler sing? In shrill nonsense syllables! But also into a microphone! If this listing is accurate, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith will support drum and microphone peripherals. Given that Activision and Harmonix are fighting about interoperability between their instruments, this points to new peripherals. That means that pretty soon the Wii, too, will be flooded with competing drum controllers!
[Update: the RedOctane press release for the game says that you'll play "alongside frontman Tyler and drummer Kramer." So maybe not ...]
[Via Joystiq]
Aerosmith and Guitar Hero come together, leave us cryin'
Now, we like Guitar Hero and Aerosmith as much as the next guy, but we can't help but feel a little jaded; this just seems like overkill. Activision is surely livin' on the edge, releasing so many iterations of Guitar Hero in such a short period of time. As for the game itself, that's just a lot of Aerosmith. We're sure that fans of the franchise don't want to miss a thing and will just push play, but we hope Activision knows that an Aerosmith guitar game isn't an original idea.
So, what's our verdict? Activision can dream on. We're not crazy, crazy, crazy for this game.
[Press release via NeoGAF]
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