CES 2008: Slash on Real Guitar vs. Guitar Hero Champ on Fake Guitar
By Jonathan on Monday, January 7th, 2008 at 12:55 PM PST In Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Games, Games Industry, Microsoft, Microsoft, Videos
Since it became known that this year’s CES would feature the last keynote address from Bill Gates, all eyes were on him as he took the stage. Luckily, he also decided to go out with quite the bang. After reviewing some of his past keynotes, he then gave the stage to Guitar Hero champ, Kelly Law-Yone (a.k.a. “TipperQueen”), so she could go through part of the Guns ‘n Roses song “Welcome to the Jungle” on Expert, with a humbling amount of ease. The real surprise though came afterwards when Gates then brought actual Guns ‘n Roses guitarist, Slash, on stage to play the same riffs on an actual guitar. Fortunately for those of us who weren’t there, someone thought to record the event and bring it to the rest of us in shaky, YouTube form. In my opinion, Slash wins this fake guitar vs. real guitar rock off. Why? Because he’s freakin’ Slash, that’s why!
“real guitars are for old people” –Cartman
“Poor people tend to live in clusters” -Cartman
I’m pretty sure that MS was indeed creating a 360 with integrated HD-DVD. There’s really little doubt in my mind that they were.
And I think there’s absolutely no chance in hell they were considering it. The lack of any mention of it doesn’t surprise me; Microsoft is all about digital distribution.
And this was such a cheesy way to end the keynote. Really lame.
I have to agree with Chris.
It’s pretty obvious they never intended to include or pursue either HD format integrated with the 360. MS has always been about digital distrubution. Just look at Live. They’ll offer a bigger hard drive before they even toy with an idea of a larger optical format. Let the movie industry squabble over the bits and scraps of a slow adopting HD format.
And yes, that video was pretty lame.
not bad if only the girl had played the real slash guitar track… i didnt realize the game actually made you play the izzy stradlin guitar track… why would slash do this? Its clear if you fade the cd(not your ipod) left and right on AFD… left is Izzy and right is Slash… left side is exactly what the girl played!!!!
a real GNR fan
That was awesome!
ITS ALL ABOUT REAL GUITAR HEROs like Slash
ALL PLAYERS OF GH should go out and buy a REAL guitar and an amp
learn how to play
SHRED
hey guys im doing a science fair project on guitar hero and heres the question. e-mail me at “slum_num@hotmail.com” or just comment this question on wheather or not you think it is harder to play guitar hero than real guitar or if wheather or not you think guitar her would affect the performance of a real guitarist or vice versa… anwayways please reaply thanks guys