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by Chris Faylor, Mar 18, 2010 12:10pm PDTHow do you promote an upcoming guitar-controlled rhythm game when you're not ready to show actual gameplay? If you're Power Gig: Rise of the SixString developer Seven45, you go to Game Developers Conference 2010, film some people rocking out with the guitar controller, throw in a mask and some bunny ears for good measure, and voila:
Coming to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this fall, Power Gig uses a specialized six-string controller that doubles as an actual electric guitar, with the game sporting two methods of play: "traditional beat-matching," similar to other rhythm games, and "specific finger placement on the strings" based on actual chords and power chords.
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if anything this game seems to be trivializing what playing music really entails.
I also suspected the television might not have even been on. The biggest sign was that no one actually seemed to be playing: when their guitars could actually be heard (as opposed to the master track), each person I saw just riffed the song based on their own guitar skill, making no attempt to follow the master track with any degree of precision.
Certainly provoked a fair degree of interest, though.