Guitar Hero III Talks Dirty to Macs and PCs

I never thought I'd find the right context to admit this, but as a child of the eighties, I actually attended a Warrant / Poison double-header with my high school girlfriend. I know, the shame, but also, the sheer spectacle. I've seen Yes and Billy Joel and Chick Corea and crazy Balkan brass bands with bagpipes and string ensembles and tuxedo-clad Belgrade choirs (Goran Bregovic, Paris 2001) but nothing quite as glamorously surreal as Jani Lane gyrating to "Cherry Pie" or Rikki Rockett power-sticking a rotating drumset with more levels than a wedding cake as lights and hairdos (and eyeballs) exploded.

Somehow I've missed all the Guitar Hero games. I know, the shame. I plan to remedy that this fall when Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock arrives all hairsprayed and lipsticky for Xbox 360 and Playstation 2/3 and Wii. And now, according to port-o-matic publisher Aspyr Media, for PC and Mac as well.

The last time I crowded hot seat style in front of a PC with more than one person was with my family roughly a decade ago (circa 1997?) when I managed, somehow, to get my PC plugged into my parents' 32 inch TV so up to three of us could play You Don't Know Jack huddled around a cheap QWERTY keyboard and plunking the A and G and L keys to buzz in our answers to Celebrity Collect Calls and Gibberish Questions and furious bouts of DisOrDat. Great memories, those, but single PC group-play? Kind of a pain in the you-know-what.

Assuming you don't already have a console and a decent sized TV, would you play Guitar Hero on your PC? What's your PC screen size? 17 inches? 19? 21? Is that really big enough? Maybe you're one of those rare birds that runs your PC through your big screen TV? I'm trying to imagine one or more persons with the guitar controller strapped on and shredding in front of my wimpy 19 inch LCD. You know what I mean?

Now the laptop angle on the other hand is halfway interesting. Dragging consoles around is a pain. (Do your friend have Composite or Component? S-Video or HDMI? Enough spots to plug in without pulling anything out and foiling someone's meticulously blueprinted cable-nest?) Laptops today have two or more USB ports and go almost anywhere. And don't forget the Mac option, in the rare instance that your household is totally PC and console free.

Anyway, if the prospect of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock on a computer (portable or otherwise) makes you stand up and shout "Barracuda!" it sounds like the game will ship this fall in tandem with the 360/PS3/PS2/Wii versions.

Comments

Post a comment Post a comment

0 / 1000 max characters