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As expectations for big-budget games demand bigger worlds with better graphics, publishers have become risk averse to the point of absurdity. In his recent analysis of the video game industry in 2015, Wired's Chris Kohler eloquently enumerated the problems facing triple-A game publishers. Whatever the case, if I can run Guitar Hero on my iPad Mini, I could assuredly run it on my laptop - and so could millions of other people. How the guitar and tablet will connect to televisions is something they plan to clarify at E3. Activision has announced that the mobile version of Guitar Hero Live will be the same game available on consoles. The low-impact game is already proving advantageous. This isn't the next Halo or Crysis Guitar Hero Live is a graphical overlay on pre-recorded footage. And that will be possible by streaming or even locally running Guitar Hero Live, a game without fancy current generation graphics. Here's a bold prediction: the future of Guitar Hero will be, in some capacity, on your laptop. But the team members only briefly nodded at the real place the vast majority of young people get their music: a web browser or a discrete app. That kind of sounds like a "modern media experience," whatever such a thing actually is. With a tap of a button at any time, the player will be sent to an online music video stream, connecting them to their friends and other players across the world. Throughout a recent demonstration of Guitar Hero Live, the developers weaved in PR speak about creating a game that caters to the modern way we consume media.
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Read next: Guitar Hero TV is like a playable version of classic MTV To make a future proof game, Activision learned from the past. The format looks both awkward and outdated, and the decision to bring it back is as brilliant as it is prescient.
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FMV blurs the line between movie and game and is best known for B-grade cult hits like Sewer Shark, Corpse Killer, and Night Trap. Surprise! The reboot of popular plastic instrument franchise Guitar Hero looks like a full-motion video game from the 1990s.
