Guitar Zero

Activision sucks. There, now that I've gotten the thesis for this blog out of the way I can get down to brass tacks because I don't particularly feel I have to really do a historical run down of all the asinine money grubbing, industry killing decisions they've made over the past year to add validity to my statement. The proof is in the pudding. However, their latest game is clearly yet another in the long line of stupid ideas that only Activision can produce.




Yes, this is yet another musically inclined game in a long list of them stemming from a franchise that has been milked to death so badly over the past few years that has even Megaman green with envy. Due to this fact, Activision has noticed poor sales of the franchise and has addressed the issue by giving this franchise a rest until some new fresh ideas can be made creating yet another tacked on silly gimmick in a sad, pathetic attempt to disguise the fact that this is essentially the same game you bought last year, and the year before that and the year before that and the year before that even, which was at least at a point when you still gave a shit....but I digress.

No, in this game you're pretty much doing the exact same thing as before, except this time there's a Quest Mode. Yes, hosted by Gene Simmons (who I'm sure they shelled out a ton of cash for in lieu of using it for something constructive, like appeasing Infinity Ward), your task is to use the power of music to where the band members are attempting to release the "Demi God of Rock from control from an evil force which culminates in a Rush concert that finally destroys the evil beast or something of that nature. Yes, someone was paid to drum up this nonsense. Basically its the same game you've played before, with lesser known songs, no actual musicians and plot that Tim Schaefer left off the cutting room floor when Activision dropped the idea for Brutal Legend. But you can transform into Final Fantasy summons with bad haircuts, so it's fair trade off really.

This guy is like the Avenged Sevenfold to L.Raptor's Iron Maiden

But let's be real here, this yet another egregious example of Activision's clueless corporate mentality and greed. Instead of looking at the poor sales of past games and deciding that perhaps poor sales are a result of the oversaturation of the product over the past few years, they instead dissolve the development teams that made the franchise what it is in the first place, effectively chopping the nuts off of the series and feeding it to the consumer. It's what essentially happened with Tony Hawk, Call of Duty and now it looks like the same thing will happen to Guitar Hero. Quite frankly, I'm glad. Activision needs to die a horrible death. Their tacky business model stifles creativity, rips off the consumer and is a healthy contributor to everything bad about the gaming industry.