Games For Sail

Ever since the release of the first game, the Guitar Hero games have taken the world by storm, seeing a spin off franchise Rock band, clothing, toy figures and its own line of plastic Gibson and Fender guitars. So the question is: has Guitar Hero energised the music industry? Or put it on the path to destruction?

The charges:

• Less people are picking up Guitar Hero rather than real instruments. Some people might not find any appeal in playing guitar anyway, but it has gotten some people to dig deeper into learning an instrument. So people who had never given a second thought to picking up a musical instrument are now doing just that. Claiming that the game is stopping people playing real instruments could say that about all video games.
• It doesnt compare to actually playing onstage. It may be the nearest thing to playing onstage that some people ever get. All video games transfer the player to a scenario where they can live a life as a ninja, football player and thanks to Guitar hero, a rock star. Sure, Guitar hero players might never know the joy of rocking out with guitars onstage, but then, thats there loss.
• It will damage the music industry. When the game was first anounced, the record companies were scared about music sales going down- as usual. But in truth, the exact opposite has happened. The game has given players the chance to hear music they might not have discovered otherwise, and gives the bands involved more exposure. The latest version, Guitar hero: Metallica, is going to bring the metal band to an entirely new generation of kids who’ve never heard them before. Metallica certainly arent the only band to jump on this, as AC/DC and Aerosmith has done this as well, with Van Halen also about to release their own guitar hero game.

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