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May 14 2008

Guitar Hero IV drums appear in latest Game Informer

Published by Robert at 10:53 am

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The latest issue of Game Informer has the scoop on the upcoming Guitar Hero IV; including how their newly added peripherals will look. At first glance you’ll notice only three pads, but if you look a little above there are two “cymbals.” They look a bit awkward to me, but they had to compete with Rock Band somehow. This begs the question, again: how do they expect one to fit all of these plastic instruments in their rooms?

Destructoid


3 Responses to “Guitar Hero IV drums appear in latest Game Informer”

  1. # Pyroon 14 May 2008 at 6:33 pm

    Ok. So this needs to be backwards compatible with Rock Band so I can sell my rock band drums and use this. i refuse to have two bulky drum sets in my room! (though I’ll buy it anyway.)

    Also note, on the new guitars, it is rumored (or confirmed, whatever) that the new “transparent note” that comes down is actually just a strum with no buttons pressed. I hope that’s not that they are trying to patent. I mean, really.

  2. # Hax0rzon 14 May 2008 at 10:05 pm

    Yeah as much as I doubt that I’ll be buying Guitar Hero IV (I like Rock Band too much) if I were to buy it I wouldn’t want all these drum sets bogging up my house.

  3. # It’s time for instrument standards in music games. | mendax.orgon 20 May 2008 at 11:36 am

    [...] with Guitar Hero IV, which is all well and good, but the game will be designed to work with a different drum layout, in which instead of four simple drums, Guitar Hero IV will go with three, plus two elevated [...]

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