Guitar Hero III is now available for the Blackberry mobile. Yes, we think this news is a little on the "How the hell does that work?" side as well.
We imagined millions of business people (the kind who can't spend more than three minutes without having received an email) standing on trains stabbing each other in the faces with their Gibson Les Pauls somehow plugged into their Blackberries. Then we thought, "Hold on, if you've got a Blackberry, why on earth would you be rocking out in the first place?"
So, we looked at the available information..."Featuring four authentic guitars and three venues..." Wow! You do get to plug guitars in!
"...the game challenges players to hit number keys in synch with coloured notes that appear on a scrolling fret board."
So, it's a finger-twiddler. It is also an excellent example of 'monetising your IP'. It is intended to keep you firmly attached to one of the four carriers currently set up for it in the USA. Let's see how:
After a year? A year!? Why on earth would any gamer have to wait for a year in order to access the rest of the content? Is the content not finished yet? Are gamers now going to be rationed? Is there some kind of content famine? We doubt it. It looks way more like a good way to use a popular franchise to make Blackberry users crumble in the face of extending their carrier contracts.
Then again, if you're stuck to your Blackberry rather than playing games like GHIII with your real friends in real life... you probably deserve everything you get; isn't that another email you've got to answer?
We imagined millions of business people (the kind who can't spend more than three minutes without having received an email) standing on trains stabbing each other in the faces with their Gibson Les Pauls somehow plugged into their Blackberries. Then we thought, "Hold on, if you've got a Blackberry, why on earth would you be rocking out in the first place?"
So, we looked at the available information..."Featuring four authentic guitars and three venues..." Wow! You do get to plug guitars in!
"...the game challenges players to hit number keys in synch with coloured notes that appear on a scrolling fret board."
So, it's a finger-twiddler. It is also an excellent example of 'monetising your IP'. It is intended to keep you firmly attached to one of the four carriers currently set up for it in the USA. Let's see how:
"The game offers 15 instantly accessible tracks taken from the console series, including "Cherub Rock", "Miss Murder", "Monsters", "Suck My Kiss", and "Trippin' On A Hole", and offers subscribers the opportunity to expand their playlist with three new songs every month.
"After a year, players will be able to access over 50 songs and 150 unique levels across all three difficulties (easy, medium, and expert)."
"After a year, players will be able to access over 50 songs and 150 unique levels across all three difficulties (easy, medium, and expert)."
After a year? A year!? Why on earth would any gamer have to wait for a year in order to access the rest of the content? Is the content not finished yet? Are gamers now going to be rationed? Is there some kind of content famine? We doubt it. It looks way more like a good way to use a popular franchise to make Blackberry users crumble in the face of extending their carrier contracts.
Then again, if you're stuck to your Blackberry rather than playing games like GHIII with your real friends in real life... you probably deserve everything you get; isn't that another email you've got to answer?
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