You can't plug a massive guitar into a DS and play Guitar Hero. That would be silly. But you can't play Guitar Hero without those five fret buttons either. That's the challenge facing RedOctane, who's working on the portable version.
But cofounder and COO of RedOctane, Charles Huang, is confident it can work. "We're hoping to really bring the experience to the DS and to do some very, very different approaches. We're working through a lot of engineering issues with Nintendo. I actually came from a set of meetings with them last week about this," he explains.
"While the technical path hasn't been set yet, we intend for this to be a very unique experience just like Guitar Hero was on consoles. This will play probably unlike any other DS game that has come out," he added, being careful not to give away too much.
But the big question is how we will be controlling the game without a full-size guitar? "The DS peripheral is very intriguing to us," he says. "It's an integral part of the Guitar Hero experience, so as much as possible, we would like to keep it within the experience as long as it makes sense and it plays well. And we can do it on the DS where it not only makes sense for the title, but also for the way people like to interact with the DS."
What does this mean? Will it be a little tiny guitar, or some fret buttons that stick out the side of the DS? He doesn't say, but he did add: "It needs to be affordable and it needs to fit within the environment that people normally play DS games in.
"Central to it all, we are exploring ways to get peripherals on a DS game," he concluded in an interview with CNET.
How it will work is still anyone's guess at the moment. But they'll have to come up with something cool because we refuse to play Guitar Hero without a guitar.
I was thinking they'd just end up doing an Elite Beat Agents and have you clicking things on the screen randomly. But this peripheral thing sounds great, not that Elite Beat Agents isn't (it's aces).
Guitar attachment goes in gba port you turn your ds on its side and play -- but its gunna look so stupid
Thats all well and good but how are you going to see the screen if you have to hold it in a funky way? also what about those poor buggers with the DS Chunks? heavy even moreso
i have guitar hero on the 360 and i have to say it is the most saintly game i have ever played... but this... is just gonna suck, i mean think about it, you have to be fairly close to the screen to see it properly and even if they get they peripherals right and they work fine, lets face it, DS speakers are pathetic compared to a TV so u will have to rock out very quietly, particularly if ur in public, i cant see someone sitting on the train with a DS blasting out ACDC all over the carriage...
i have guitar hero on the 360 and i have to say it is the most saintly game i have ever played... but this... is just gonna suck, i mean think about it, you have to be fairly close to the screen to see it properly and even if they get they peripherals right and they work fine, lets face it, DS speakers are pathetic compared to a TV so u will have to rock out very quietly, particularly if ur in public, i cant see someone sitting on the train with a DS blasting out ACDC all over the carriage...
I like the 360 version but i think it should have incl for free the guitar hero 1 songs
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