Activision - Guitar Hero Live Microphone (Gift with Purchase) - Black

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• Rated 4 out of 5 stars

  Good but not great

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  Pros: This microphone feels sturdy and well made, when you hold in your hand it feels as if it's a real microphone. I don't feel like I am going to break it when I play guitar hero. The vocals can be heard well in the game and perhaps can be a little loud. I believe this can be due to how close we hold the microphone to our mouths. The cable length could be longer for people with larger/longer living rooms, but we haven't had any issues with it so far. CONS: This is the part that has me wondering if I am going to be playing guitar hero into the near future. This also applies to the guitar.. and that is that the microphone is WIRED. The guitars needs its own USB dongle/receiver. So you see, if you want to play with other people, you can only have one guitar player and the singer, or two guitar players and no singer. Why weren't the guitars made wireless with out any extra accessories. The microphone I understand, but I believe they could have improved on this. I haven't checked out Rock Band and I am sure there's a way to use all three components in guitar hero if Rock Band is able to do it. Over all, having the microphone is sure a great time with friends and family. Knocking off a star for being wired, obviously it would cost more to have a wireless option. However, it's an option that most people would appreciate.

  Posted 10 years ago by fmsida

• Rated 4 out of 5 stars

  New and Fresh

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  I've been playing guitar hero and rock band games since the very first installment and they've been great, but have grown stale over the years. This new Guitar Hero game really provides a nice and new fresh take on these games to help bring excitement back into the genre. The new guitar layout works extremely well, changing just enough to make things feel different, but still intuitive enough to not be frustrating. The live audience is a little goofy but in a good way, making it much more interesting to see what is happening on screen than the virtual band that is usually shown. The streaming element, while divisive for most people, is actually quite cool as far as I'm concerned. Yes, you don't own the music and are just renting the songs, but looking back on my Rock Band history where I did own the songs, I ended up only playing those songs a handful of times. Renting them and playing them the same amount of times has not at all been an issue and I can easily earn free credits by playing along with GHTV, which has helped me actually discover a lot of new songs I enjoy, that I never would have given a second look to. Overall, if you like guitar hero games but have grown tired of the franchise, give this new one a try as it provides a new and fresh take that the series/genre has sorely needed.

  Posted 10 years ago by dschroll

• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Great game

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  Was feeling the nostalgia with this game. Was on the fence with the $100 msrp, though it is/was on sale Black Friday (early access deals were for my Best Buy/elite members) $70 ($55 for GCU members), after using $5 rewards offsetting NY tax and the remaining $23 on a gift card (from a trade) I paid $30 onto my Best Buy credit card. Can't go wrong at that price plus a free, suppose to be normally $20 mic. I was a bit leery on the switch from 5 notes across to the 3 and 3 top/bottom, it actually isn't too bad. A little different for those of us GH vets. The most expensive part is needing the guitar again. The GHTV is a cool feature too to be able to jump in online to whatever song is playing at the moment. If you don't have the GCU (20% off new games) do yourself a favor and pay the $30/2yrs for it. On this it will pay off. I saved $15 off of the already Black Friday $70 price. Probably save $20 off of $100 so you already almost break even and go uphill from there. $60 games will drop to $47.99. All in all, great purchase and I'd recommend this. Rock band is great too but then there's the fact I switched consoles (PS3-Xbox one) so my songs don't transfer unless I had a ps4, and needing all new controllers instead of keeping those in the same family too. This seems like a more affordable choice at the moment and the GHTV so far seems to replace DLC a little. Also it came with a $10 off Skylanders Superchargers coupon good through 1/31/16, probably give that away to someone to use for their kids in time for the holidays.

  Posted 10 years ago by Mike14225