Conformity is a Good Thing: The Smashing Pumpkins to Release New Track via Guitar Hero: World Tour
By Stephany on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 at 10:53 AM PST In Game Companies, Gamer Life, Games, Games Industry, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony
So many bands are releasing new singles via Rock Band or the Guitar Hero games before their album even comes out that it is almost becoming a fad of sorts. Whether you feel that this newfangled way of releasing music is a good or bad thing is a moot point because there looks to be no end in sight.
The newest example of this trend is The Smashing Pumpkins who are slated to release their newest single via Guitar Hero: World Tour. The track “G.L.O.W.” will be a bit of an exception though because this will be the first time that a band has actually recorded a song for a music simulation game and released it before the album has even been finished. What this means is that if you plan on purchasing GHWT on October 15, you will get the single before the rest of the world; therefore, if you do not plan on purchasing GHWT, you will just to have to wait along with the rest of the uninitiated.
“G.L.O.W.” will be bundled with two other songs from the band: “1979″ and “The Everlasting Gaze” and will be available pre-launch of the game. In addition, Billy Corgan will also be appearing as an in-game character that you can play as throughout career mode, so when you and your buddies are thrashing to the single “Today” (which will be on the game disc) you will really be able to pretend you are the head honcho of The Smashing Pumpkins. That is, if you are into that sort of thing.
Guitar Hero: World Tour seems to have a lot interesting gameplay elements associated with it, and with rival Rock Band 2 coming out around the same time, it looks like there will be plenty of coolness to go around. Here’s hoping that the peripheral compatibility that both camps are buzzing about pans out in the end so that we will no longer have to choose between the two.
I only wish that the name of the song was something different, because evertime I hear or see the word “glow” anymore I think about that stinky perfume from J. Lo. However, with the title of the song appearing to be an actual abbreviation of something it could mean anything – and with a mind like Billy Corgan behind it, you honestly just never know.
