Guitar Hero II announced
Posted: April 18th, 2006 | Author: Simon | Filed under: Clippings | Comments Off
Hot of the IGN press come news of Guitar Hero II.
People are really excited about the game, but after playing the first game and being used to it and getting through to expert mode, people just wanted more, and so we knew that for the sequel, “more” means a lot of things. It’s not just more music, or more characters or venues, they want to have the full experience filled out. In Guitar Hero 1 you’re playing just one stream [of audio], and in co-op mode, you’re actually sharing that stream and it alternates back and forth and you share the two channels, the left and right channels. But it’s really just one stream that comes off the disc, the lead guitar.
For the sequel, for every song, there’s going to be two streams. Some of those second streams are going to be rhythm guitar, and some of those streams are going to be bass guitar. So there’s not three streams, there’s actually two streams. But with two guitars you’ll actually be able to play co-operatively and you’re not playing the same exact track, like sharing the lead guitar track. You’re actually playing your own track.