Band Hero News

For:Xbox 360 Also On: PS3, Wii, PS2, DS Release Date: 6 November 2009

Band Hero demo hits XBL Marketplace

NewsPosted 15/10/2009 - 3:20pm GMT+1

Three songs, including a track by Taylor Swift.

Fans of pop muisc and band-based video games are in luck, a playable demo of the pop-filled Band Hero is now available to download from Xbox LIVE Marketplace.

The demo is for Gold members only and features the songs, “Paralyzer” by Finger Eleven, “Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina & The Waves and Taylor Swift's “Picture to Burn”. The demo also features Party Play and the all-new Sing-Along mode.

Add the demo to your download queue by following this link.

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CheekyLee @ Woffls

Dude, you should be well aware by now what I think of "the internet" and its thoughts! The opinion of one intelligent and informed individual carries more weight with me than that of ten thousand slavering teenage fanboys.

Posted 13:04 on 18 October 2009

Woffls @ CheekyLee

The internet seems to think GH5 is better because it's getting higher review scores. For the purpose of discussion, that is what I have established as "improvement". Note that, after playing the GH5 demo, I thought it was absolutely appalling compared to World Tour. GHII and GHIII were the most enjoyable for me because they were entirely guitar focussed experiences.

Posted 22:25 on 17 October 2009

Endless @ guyderman

Unfortunately thats not how business works. It's the exact same as Sky paying to get the American blockbuster series on their channels and nowhere else. The same as a channel paying to screen the football or boxing. Whoever pays the most gets the exclusivity.

And yeah it sucks. But having played both GH and RB i have it straight in my head that GH just doesn't cut it anymore and so the songs that are exclusive to GH (not that there are many that RB doesn't have) are annoyingly unavailable. I don't see it changing anytime soon unfortunately.

Posted 20:25 on 17 October 2009

guyderman

One of the things that I find frustrating is that neither RB or GH seem to think that people will be playing both games.
Everytime there is another game released there are always tracks that are already available on the competitions version.
These tracks need to be purely DLC so that people that do only play either RB or GH can DL them - but people who buy all the games don't keep getting repeat tracks for their money.

Posted 12:55 on 16 October 2009

Karlius

DLC would solve everything how can these games warrant £40 price tags.

Apparantly endless their the same drums with symbals. Amazing.

Posted 12:37 on 16 October 2009

Endless

GH5's big selling point was any combination of instruments and being able to jump in and out of a song at will. Seems to me like they've reached a plateau on the technicalities that regular non-musician gamers are capable of achieving so they keep adding options and features that don't directly alter the core gameplay. I'd like to see them move more towards helping you learn to play said instruments a bit more. The move up in difficulty on guitar isn't the same kind of progression as moving on to more difficult chords and riffs on a real guitar. Drums is pretty good except for the layout they need to revise how much each pad is used in the music too, but the skills required to play it a quite close to real drumming.

Singing is worthless, anyone can hum or switch down or up an octave to reach the notes required. more detailed recognition required there imo.

What they really need to work is making the instruments better quality without inflating the price. I'm still waiting on the RB2 drums to come over here. Are the BH drums any better quality than the (frankly) diabolical GH drums and the unreliable RB drums?

Posted 12:27 on 16 October 2009

guyderman

Being able to play the same instruments is a definate bonus - everyone is always fighting over the drums when I play on-line with my mates - LOL!

Posted 11:59 on 16 October 2009

CheekyLee @ Woffls

Are they really improving, though? What is better in Guitar Hero 5 than World Tour? The best 'innovation' in Band Hero appears to be allowing all 4 people to play the same instrument, which is truthfully something that should have been in these games from the start.

Lego Rock Band actually has the best track listing of any of these games I have seen, by the way.

Posted 11:49 on 16 October 2009