Kai Huang strums more notes on Guitar Hero III

Found smack dab inside a Guitar Hero-themed “rock bus” created to promote Guitar Hero in numerous rock concerts in the UK, RedOctane‘s president and founder Kai Huang made a few rock poses for the media cameras, while giving a little more insight into the idea behind Guitar Hero III. In an interview with Emma Boyes of GameSpot UK, Huang explained why some great music tracks won’t be making the Guitar Hero III cut.

Now we all know how it’s like to actually select really good music out there. First, you have to establish an opinion-base which includes everyone that has to do with the game, and that branches from the developers down to the fans.
You, as a fan, can submit your ideas at Guitar Hero songs thread at the official forums of the Guitar Hero web site, or just e-mail the song title and performing artist straight to RedOctane.

Unfortunately, the song selection process takes a long time, and licensing issues don’t help speed up things at all. It’s great to have a broad selection of songs in this case, because whenever conflicts arise, songs eventually get dropped. And while song dropping is usually “a record company to developer deal”, developers also drop most songs that won’t be as fun in Guitar Hero, even if they sound amazingly great. Huang admitted that they’ve had a “lot” of those, and stated:

There are a lot of fantastic songs out there, a lot of great artists, a ton of great music. But not all of them would be the most fun for Guitar Hero, so part of that selection process that we go through is that we have [a list] of some great artists, and then we go through the songs that are there and then we really look for the songs that have some great guitar riffs, or some great guitar solos, and those are the ones that we finalise and choose, because those are the ones that we know are going to be fun to play in the game.

So far, they’ve been hoping to get songs from artists like Metallica, AC/DC, and Led Zeppelin into the game, but will be giving majority of the floor toward the fan submitted games that make the cut. Huang also revealed that the new guitar controller will be wireless to the delight of many fans who’ve been asking for that feature.

They’re also working on varieties of colors, plus a new shape. He even went as far to say that they’d be “looking at … creating some more interesting guitars that are higher end, and some of them will be made out of wood, and so they’ll actually feel like a real guitar.”

Guitar Hero III is currently under the skilled developer hands of Activision’s star devs behind the Tony Hawk franchise, Neversoft Entertainment, and should be shipping late in 2007 to the PS2, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Via GameSpot

Found smack dab inside a Guitar Hero-themed “rock bus” created to promote Guitar Hero in numerous rock concerts in the UK, RedOctane‘s president and founder Kai Huang made a few rock poses for the media cameras, while giving a little more insight into the idea behind Guitar Hero III. In an interview with Emma Boyes of GameSpot UK, Huang explained why some great music tracks won’t be making the Guitar Hero III cut.

Now we all know how it’s like to actually select really good music out there. First, you have to establish an opinion-base which includes everyone that has to do with the game, and that branches from the developers down to the fans.
You, as a fan, can submit your ideas at Guitar Hero songs thread at the official forums of the Guitar Hero web site, or just e-mail the song title and performing artist straight to RedOctane.

Unfortunately, the song selection process takes a long time, and licensing issues don’t help speed up things at all. It’s great to have a broad selection of songs in this case, because whenever conflicts arise, songs eventually get dropped. And while song dropping is usually “a record company to developer deal”, developers also drop most songs that won’t be as fun in Guitar Hero, even if they sound amazingly great. Huang admitted that they’ve had a “lot” of those, and stated:

There are a lot of fantastic songs out there, a lot of great artists, a ton of great music. But not all of them would be the most fun for Guitar Hero, so part of that selection process that we go through is that we have [a list] of some great artists, and then we go through the songs that are there and then we really look for the songs that have some great guitar riffs, or some great guitar solos, and those are the ones that we finalise and choose, because those are the ones that we know are going to be fun to play in the game.

So far, they’ve been hoping to get songs from artists like Metallica, AC/DC, and Led Zeppelin into the game, but will be giving majority of the floor toward the fan submitted games that make the cut. Huang also revealed that the new guitar controller will be wireless to the delight of many fans who’ve been asking for that feature.

They’re also working on varieties of colors, plus a new shape. He even went as far to say that they’d be “looking at … creating some more interesting guitars that are higher end, and some of them will be made out of wood, and so they’ll actually feel like a real guitar.”

Guitar Hero III is currently under the skilled developer hands of Activision’s star devs behind the Tony Hawk franchise, Neversoft Entertainment, and should be shipping late in 2007 to the PS2, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Via GameSpot