Guitar Hero 5 Game Review
SoHood.com Reviewed by: Mario Diaz
Format: Xbox 360
Game Rating: 4.5/5.0
Guitar Hero veterans can rest assure that Guitar Hero 5 isn’t just a sequel with new songs added, it’s a new game in its own rights, new modes, better graphics and new playable rock stars.
Career mode is still the staple in the the game, next to multi-player, as Career mode once again has you progressing through different venues, playing songs and unlocking new gigs. It’s simple 5 the more stars you collect, the more gigs you unlock.
Each song has a bonus challenge connected with it that allows you to earn up stars per song, eight stars in total. Some of these challenges vary in difficulty, easy to expert only challenges. Aside from earning stars in challenges, you can also earn unlockables, as in new playable characters, new outfits, sponsored equipment and cheats.
Guitar Hero 5 features the likenesses of a handful of real rock stars that you may be familiar with. Many of these stars are unlocked by playing through their songs successfully in Career mode, while other stars become available only after you complete one of the bonus challenges. The neat thing is these stars can join Guitar Hero characters and alongside your user-created character.
Guitar Hero 5 delivers better-quality visuals that you’ll easily notice when you first pop the game in. Character animations are more fluid, and lip-synching looks improved. There is an overall more sharper and smoother presentation, it’s not a dramatic overhaul, but enough for anyone whom play GH World Tour to notice.
There is a number of other various tweaks in Guitar Hero 5, but for the most part the core gameplay remains fundamentally the same as World Tour. Rockfest multiplayer, a new mode is a challenges mode type, like trying to hit the most notes, or the longest streak.
Guitar Hero 5 improves in roughly every category against GH: World Tour. Except maybe the vocal star power, which can no longer be activated by tapping the microphone, you’ll need to keep a controller near by if they want to use star power. Fans Of Guitar Hero won’t be disappointed, as GH: 5 features enough notable songs and new playable characters to keep you rocking.
About the Game:
Published by: Activision
Developed by: Neversoft
Genre: Music
Release Date: US: September 1, 2009
MSRP: $59.99
