RocksmithFormats: PS3/360/PC
Release Date:PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 - NA 18 October 2011 - September 28, 2012
Microsoft Windows - NA October 16, 2012 - EU October 10, 2012
eurogamer wrote:For game company Ubisoft the music genre is still very much alive.
It's just announced Rocksmith, a game that comes with a real electric guitar and features songs from the Rolling Stones and Nirvana.
"Guitar Hero is a party game. Rocksmith is a music experience," Ubisoft senior vice president of marketing Tony Key told The Hollywood Reporter.
Ubisoft reckons Rocksmith will teach players how to play the guitar – this, it says, makes it a game with "benefits". It is said to play like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, but you're strumming and picking actual notes and chords on real strings. The game learns your abilities as you play and "adjusts gently" to help you learn.
It comes with a standard input jack that can plug "most" electric guitars into a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. The Nintendo Wii is not supported.
Apparently Ubisoft is negotiating with Gibson and others to sell a $200 (£124) version of the game that would come bundled with an electric guitar.
45 songs are expected on the disc, including tracks from the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Nirvana and the Animals. Game's due out in September.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011- ... -rocksmithjoystiq wrote:In one of the timeliest strategic moves in the video game industry's recorded history, Ubisoft has announced an upcoming rhythm title from a totally new IP, called Rocksmith. The game lets players strum through tunes by artists such as, David Bowie, Interpol, and The Rolling Stones using any real electric guitar they may have sitting around the house with a quarter-inch input jack.
As pointed out by internet sleuth supererogatory, the portfolio of illustrator Greg Korn reveals that the title is actually Guitar Rising, a piece of vaporware long in development at GameTank. Korn explains the project was "purchased by Ubisoft and currently in development for consoles." This certainly sounds like the very same thing.
The remaining mystery is how the guitar will track the notes plucked or strummed by players -- the Squier Stratocaster for Rock Band 3 can only do so using built-in semiconducters on each fret and a MIDI adapter. Is the game going to pick up on the actual note produced by the guitar? At the very latest, we'll find out when Rocksmith drops during the second half of 2011. For now, check out the screens and trailer below to get a feel for how cool you're going to look while playing.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/15/ubiso ... al-guitar/TracklistHouse of the Rising Sun - The Animals
When I'm with You - Best Coast
I Got Mine - The Black Keys
Next Girl - The Black Keys
Song 2 - Blur
Step Out of the Car - The Boxer Rebellion
Sunshine of Your Love - Cream
We Share the Same Skies - The Cribs
Boys Don't Cry - The Cure
Rebel Rebel - David Bowie
I Want Some More - Dan Auerbach
I Can't Hear You - The Dead Weather
Run Back to Your Side - Eric Clapton
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
Do You Remember - The Horrors
I Miss You - Incubus
Slow Hands - Interpol
Well OK Honey - Jenny O
Use Somebody - Kings of Leon
Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz
Surf Hell - Little Barrie
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Unnatural Selection - Muse
Plug In Baby - Muse
In Bloom - Nirvana
Breed - Nirvana
Where is My Mind? - Pixies
Go With the Flow - Queens of the Stone Age
High and Dry - Radiohead
California Brain - RapScallions
Number Thirteen - Red Fang
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
The Spider and the Fly - The Rolling Stones
Play with Fire - The Rolling Stones
Gobbledigook - Sigur Rós
Panic Switch - Silversun Pickups
Outshined - Soundgarden
Me and the Bean - Spoon
Between the Lines - Stone Temple Pilots
Vasoline - Stone Temple Pilots
Under Cover of Darkness - The Strokes
Mean Bitch - Taddy Porter
A More Perfect Union - Titus Andronicus
Good Enough - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Slither - Velvet Revolver
Burnished - White Denim
Icky Thump - The White Stripes
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Chimney - The Yellow Moon Band
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