Entries Tagged as 'Rhythm Games'

Band Mashups feel good for Wii

Band Mashups feel good for Wii

A new video Band Mashups, ersatz Guitar Hero in preparation at Planet Moon, has been put online by his publisher THQ. You can hear a cover of Gorillaz, Feel Good Inc.., Which confront a group of hip-hop and a band of Mexican dead. [Read more →]

Marvel Ultimate Alliance

Activision offers a Wii version of Marvel Ultimate Alliance, you use the capabilities of the lever to start the powers and order your team of superheroes including, among others, Spider-Man, Wolverine, the Thing or Blade, Daredevil and Elektra. No fewer than 20 characters will be offered to train your team with four superheroes. At any time, you will be able to change their character with the cross-directional. [Read more →]

Kororinpa

KororinpaAt first glance a game similar to Super Monkey Ball, Kororinpa is much more vicious and difficult than playing Sega. You control a plateau on which is placed a ball and you have to take your ball point A to point B. Move the remote is changing the shelf and thus move forward or backward depending on the ball inclination plateau. Where Super Monkey Ball wants to be great public Kororinpa sacrament is difficult entry. The trays are cleverly designed so that you can be toppled at the slightest mistake. You learn flexibility of your wrist previously unknown. [Read more →]

Battle of the Bands

Conspicuously absent in games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero III, weaponized musical instruments are going to take “Battle of the Bands” to a whole new level later this year if THQ and Planet Moon Studios get their way. [Read more →]

Boogie

The Wii has already seen its share of unique games, and this trend is certain to continue as developers start creating more games specifically designed to take advantage of the system’s motion controls. One such game is Boogie, EA’s first game built from the ground up for the Wii. [Read more →]

Legends of Rock

Elsewhere in the multiplayer arena, the face-off and pro face-off modes from the previous Guitar Hero games return, and they’re still generally excellent. However, the one new addition is anything but. Titled battle mode, this mode replaces the star-power mechanic with Mario Kart-style weapons. If you hit a specific note string, you’ll gain a weapon you can launch at your opponent by tilting the guitar. Weapons include broken strings, jacked-up whammy bars, amplifier overloads (which cause notes to appear and disappear randomly), and a reversal of the notes to lefty flip (and vice versa). On paper, this mode seems as if it could be amusing, but in practice it’s just dumb. [Read more →]

Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party

One of the most timeless questions in the world of dance is: What do you do with your hands? Do you stick up your thumb like a hitchhiker? Flap your arms like a chicken? Wave them in the air like you just don’t care? There are lots of options, and that’s why Konami’s Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party for the Wii is a little disappointing. [Read more →]

Guitar Hero III Legends of Rock

You wouldn’t have been wrong to come into Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock with some sense of trepidation. With original Guitar Hero developer Harmonix off the project and Tony Hawk creators Neversoft now on board, it would be fair to wonder if anything that made the wildly popular rhythm game franchise so awesome would be lost in the shuffle. The good news is that Guitar Hero III is Guitar Hero through and through. The core gameplay that fans love hasn’t changed outside of some basic tweaks, and the long and varied tracklist is the best of any game in the series to date. If there are any chinks in the armor of this sequel, [Read more →]