Guitar Hero

CJ had talked about Guitar Hero when he got back from his trip to Indiana a few months ago. I had also heard from friends that it was a fun video game. So, this weekend we decided to buy it for our Playstation. If you aren’t familiar with it, it is a video game where you play along to real songs on a plastic guitar. There are 5 color coated buttons on the neck of the guitar and a “strumming” button on the body of the guitar. The point is to coordinate your hand to push the color coated button and strum at the same time along with the notes the game shows you to play. Does that make sense?

I was warned by a friend that it is nothing like playing a real guitar. With that warning in mind, I was worried how well I could play the game. I didn’t do too badly when I first started. Actually, I’ve almost beaten the easy level. For the most part, the easy level only has you use the top three color coated buttons. As you move up to harder levels of the game, they start including all five buttons, thus it gets a lot more difficult.

We spent a good five hours this weekend playing the game, and as a result, my left forearm is sore. CJ already beat the easy level, so he is the Hero in our house!