Interesting approaches, but quite a bit of faulty design

First of all I want to say that I have never played before Rocksmith with a real guitar and also in RB and GH I have left from the parts rather fingers. I habs now with Rocksmith just tried it out and I'm total of only once a positive surprise.

One should only times clarify whether Rocksmith is to be regarded as "game", because even if there is much more playful, so it is rather an educational software to learn to play the guitar. Because everything is at Rocksmith it, the goal is to improve the handling of the guitar. This happens just only in a playful way about the songs similar to Rock Band or Guitar Hero and zusäzlich about interesting minigames. I take it in this review as a game and will accordingly quite comparisons to other games of the genre pull (mainly Rock Band = RB).

Graphically lags Rocksmith the other games just once behind something. Although the guitars and stages look quite good, the audience then there only slurred blurred figures to see. Power but unless made, as these graphic elements have no influence on the game. It just looks simple from something unpleasant. Moreover, even if you can choose guitars, while playing you get this not to see. In effect, these are likely to have only the sound forth in freeplay mode possible effects (I have not been extensively tested - is accordingly a guess). The marks on the strips are usually easy to recognize, but it comes at the switchen areas sometimes also the lost track while it may happen then that one engages in the completely wrong Fret (5 instead of 7, for example).

Of the games Menten forth a solid basis exists which would have significant fine-tuning needed in some areas. So you can only while the song is still running this stop and restart without loading times, in which case also the current difficulty with reset. If you only once by the song, so it is necessary to load the complete title again. This is very annoying, especially in the technology challenges, because just there (due to the short duration of many Exercises) loading times then läppern pretty together. Even navigating is sometimes very cumbersome in the menu. By default, you are always in the menu career and only need the main menu to switch to other fields at all. The menu layout is not really succeeds brilliantly. It works, but could have been better. Another point which is pushed me negatively, is the dynamic difficulty. I have played a couple of songs (also to multiply in order to better be in it - logical) and the better I'm going in a song, the higher catches, a new song from the difficulty of. If you then songs by Muse for example plays for the first time and directly 60-70% of the notes gets banged front of the bib, it can quickly become frustrating and you have first time waiting for something, until the controller is approaching again to the beginner mode. It would have made sense to offer an option that all first played songs are based on the lowest difficulty and not after that had been last in another song. When one sees something about it on the shortcomings of time, you can have fun with Rocksmith. Man scans with each playing a song further ahead and is slowly but better. The Rythm repeater can repeat certain areas of songs specifically to einzutrainieren this. Here then is reflected Rocksmith also true of its educational software page. The aforementioned Rythmrepeater and Technic challenges, can be in which certain techniques of the guitar shown and trained, provide very good opportunities to make fast progress in the game. I have begun earlier in the week and have already tried some of techniques and even the odd trick out here. Added to this to loosen the mini-games. Therein certain basic techniques are also trained (shifting, sliding, chords, etc.) but this rather casually. If you try to shoot ducks with the guitar tones as such is forgotten only once and you just want to create a new high choir. As you here will change to the full Board Fred back and forth, the training course in accordance with safety and speed on the guitar at the corresponding find Fred. With all the elements provides the Rocksmith, also go very fast very many hours there (3-4 hours are over quickly so). One can therefore quite describe as motivating and fun.

The choice of music is well done in the game. There should be something for everyone. Only the rock and metal area is a bit too short, but it can indeed be made good by DLC songs. A negative aspect for me is that the music really only so runs alongside. It makes no difference if you play the notes correctly or not. The music continues to run anyway in the background without interruption. To at least have an option to impact this would have been nice.

Before I finish, I have to point out a very serious point that has stake in the overall cost a star in the end. The game can often freeze or crash times. With me happened to not just low probability (30% approximately), that when you try to play a song again after you get past him, the game is simply freezes on the loading screen. Then you can not do anything except go to the PS3 menu and quit the game and restart. It then always go all values ​​since the last save are lost and is always stored only when you change the song from the career or the main menu.

Furthermore, I will also criticize the price of DLC songs. 3 for a piece of music, which itself only guitar elements (up to 4 "tabs" - the different kinds of guitars on some songs and bass) and contains nothing else, is pretty brazen. Not only that at Harmonix Rock Band has a larger selection of songs, no there cost the songs also just half (or 75% with Pro Guitar Tabs). Here an attempt is apparently once again something exempt the customer, what I take Ubisoft at the point foul. Also on the Game Disc significantly fewer songs than the competition. It should be in there for future titles even more.

In conclusion let me say that I can recommend the game basically, if you're interested, to learn the instrument. The aspect that everyone can learn guitar so I would sign at the present time. So "I can not" does not apply here as an excuse. Either you want to learn it or you're not interested and will therefore not come very far.

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I bought in addition to the game is still a fairly simple "guitar package" (Yamaha EC 112 GPIIb - 279) and the games work so well. You can invest more if you want. But you should not buy too cheap, too;). You might be a passage to music dealer is there nothing wrong around the corner, which then may also be one or the other tip.