Red Hot Chili Peppers might get their own Guitar Hero game
This will, from what I understand from people who bother enough to play video games, be interesting to both aspiring musicians and various kinds of armchair enthusiasts and couch potatoes.
Gaming website Kotaku reports that Red Hot Chili Peppers might get their own Guitar Hero game.
According to details from a survey forwarded to Kotaku, Activision appears to be gauging interest in a Guitar Hero: Red Hot Chili Peppers concept. Similar to previous games that highlight rock bands like Metallica, Van Halen and Aerosmith, the Red Hot Chili Peppers branded version is pitched as highlighting the band’s greatest hits and songs from guest artists chosen by the headlining band.
“Celebrate the entirety of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ life, starting with their early days in LA, to their famous Hyde Park concert to their highly anticipated new studio album,” notes the purported survey. “Discover the story behind their legendary music as you unlock interviews, retrospectives, concert footage and other commentary.”
The survey specifically names albums By The Way, Californication, Give It Away and the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “upcoming studio album to be released in 2011.”
The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ music has appeared previously in the series, with individual songs popping up in Guitar Hero III and the Guitar Hero: On Tour games. The band’s breakout album Blood Sugar Sex Magik appeared as a full album download for competitor Rock Band.
Read the rest of the article here and feel free to share your two cents on this matter; given that some bands like Aerosmith, Van Halen and Metallica already got their own names and that some others, like The Beatles and Green Day got their own Rock Band games. Does this sound too commercial or just right? Would even those amongst you who never played a video game and consider games a waste of time give a go to something like this?
