greenmedic88 said:
Power Gig may end up being another "Rock Revolution" in terms of sales although that particular game was just sub-par on all levels. The play list is pretty important too. Sounds like Power Gig has a "guitar player's" play list which kind of limits the audience, but who knows? Maybe there are more aspiring guitarists out there who want to use a video game tutor to learn technical songs than some would imagine. And the guitar controller looks a lot like a junior guitar. At least the Rock Band guitar is a Squire Stratocaster, not that I'd buy a Squire for regular guitar playing, but it's a "real" guitar at least. I'd just rather put the $270 asking price towards a better guitar. Guitar Rising (which appears to be stillborn) let players use any electric guitar they had to play the game. That would have been ideal. |
The set list for Power Gig is amazing, but intimidating even for your novice guitarist who breaks out the acoustic on camping trips.
Remember when Guitar Hero first came out and Lars Ulrich of Metallica stated no Metallica game would ever go onto a game like that and Guitar Hero is not a way to teach guitar? Well, Power Gig seems to be the epitome of his reaction taken to Yngwie Malmsteen proportions for a game that is intended to sell to the mass public, most of whom do not know what a hammer-on is.
Power Gig needs to have a learning mode where the songs progress in difficulty from the easiest "Smoke on the Water" riffs to something as technical as "Stairway to Heaven." This could start the "Rock Revolution" you refer to. All I am seeing is an awesome set list I can't play and I am butthurt because my wannabe rock star dreams as a kid seem out of reach with a game I would spend two years getting halfway through.
As for guitar brands, I am a lover of the Gibson ES-345 (Resurrecting Freddie King :) ), Fender Stratocaster, and Fender Telecaster. The Power Gig guitar is another metal guitar that is soulless but looks edgy.
