Where to go after buying songs on band hero for ps3
Band Hero Songs for
PS3
The title of the latest game
in the Hero franchise is a little misleading. Band Hero sounds like a new
direction for the franchise, a completely new brand. But other Hero games
already include a full band (World Tour, Guitar Hero 5, Metallica). It's a
strange title for a game that's basically Guitar Hero 5-2. Band Hero uses the
same framework and ideas as GH5, just with less hard rocking and a lot more
American Idol.
That's not to say that the entire setlist comes from
current pop radio. You still have rock classics like "Bad Reputation" from Joan
Jett and '90s hits like "Two Princes" from The Spin Doctors. But the special
appearances in this game are decidedly more modern, with Taylor Swift and Adam
Levine instead of Johnny Cash and Carlos Santana. The stages, clothes, and
characters are more pop-infused as well, but I've never found the backgrounds
and characters themselves to be the focus of these types of music games. Unless
you're watching someone else play, the most important part of a music game is
its playability.
Click the image above to check out all Band Hero
screens.
Gameplay-wise, everything in Band Hero is the same as in GH5.
You can still immediately jump into any song that's playing on the start screen.
Every track is available in Quickplay without any codes or tedious unlocking.
You can play a song with any mix of instruments you want. (Four lead guitars? No
problem!) The career progression is a quick trip through increasingly more
difficult songs without any repeats. Band Hero even includes all the same,
varied multiplayer options from GH5. It's the same framework, so everything that
GH5 did well, Band Hero also does excellently.
But that also means Band
Hero contains the same niggling problems as GH5. The vocals are a little too
hard to gauge pitch on. And, as a Hero game, even the lower difficulties are a
little too punishing, which stands out even more in an increasingly
casual-oriented franchise like this. I have friends who were frustrated by Band
Hero's Medium setting, but who can competently play through Rock Band's games on
Hard. It's not really a problem, but Band Hero also has 20 fewer songs on its
tracklist (65 versus GH5's 85).
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