Yes, you read that right. Charlie Daniels doesn’t like Guitar Hero III, mainly because of the way a cover of his song “Devil Went Down to Georgia” is used in the game.
In an April 4 post on Daniels’s Website, he said that one of his main problems with the game are that the devil can, and often does, win in the showdown using the updated (guitar heavy) version of his song. For those that haven’t played, at various points in the single player side of the game, players duel with famous guitarists Tom Morello (of Rage Against the Machine), Slash (of Guns and Roses) and the devil
Daniels also said, “Actually the game really has a dark side complete with grotesque monsters on stage with the band, strange, eerie lighting effects and all manner of weird things popping up on the stage.”
Now, I realize his music falls more on the country side of things, but has he really not seen a rock concert in the past 30 years? The game (while exadurating slightly) doesn’t do anything you wouldn’t expect to see on stage at a concert (with a huge effects budget).
Back when Bioshock came out, I was bummed because on PC it required a graphics card with Shader Model 3.0. Guess what my Radeon X800 GTO doesn’t have. Anyway, I heard there was actually a way around it and that someone was working on an unofficial patch to allow older graphics cards to handle the game. Well, there hasn’t been any progress in several months and it still had some problems with textures displaying properly.
By problems I mean this (via www.overclock.net):
I just ended up borrowing a 360 copy from one of my friends. I might still go back to it on PC once I upgrade to an Nvidia 9600 GT this summer. This kind of game just feels more at home on PC to me.
I read these when they were first published and stumbled onto them again the other day. The basic idea was that a couple of guys at GameSpy would take bad PS2 launch title, most of which were already really cheap at the time the articles went up, and basically just post what they were saying about the game as they played it. If someone tried this again today, but did video for it, I have a feeling it could really do well, assuming they found the right hosts.
Too bad it never really got off the ground. Check out the few entries that did make it out though. They were great!
There have been dozens of superhero and comic based games made over the years, and while some have been great like Spiderman 2 or the old X-men arcade game, many have been cheaply made, rushed out attempts to cash in on existing characters.
That’s why I’m glad to see that Seanbaby already did a write up of some of the worst over at 1up.
My only complaint is that he didn’t mention that abysmal Crow: City of Angles game for the PS1, Saturn and (I think) PC.
There’s really no excuse for that game being released.
The song “Still Alive” by Jonathan Coulton from the game Portal, is available for download in the 360 version of Rock Band (PS3 version coming soon) and even better, it’s free (for the first week anyway).
Here’s a video of someone playing Expert level guitar on it.
