Before we even get started, let me just answer that: No. Okay, on with the article! Revealed at the Game Developers Conference currently underway in San Francisco, California, hardware developer and game studio Seven45’s title “Power Gig: Rise of the SixString” is the obvious next step for note-matching music gaming. Instead of a goofy fake plastic guitar, players will strum a more realistic-looking goofy plastic guitar, complete with strings.
Apparently the thing is playable, able to plug into an amp for full-on shreddin’, yow! It’s really meant to be a game controller, though, not necessarily a gateway drug into the dark world of professional musicianship. This seems like a move to mollify everyone who keeps saying that gamers should put the fake rigs down and pick up a real axe and learn how to play fo’ reals, yo. But the kinds of people who are into Rock Band and Guitar Hero have already committed to those games; are they really going to want to deal all over again with mastering a new, more complex instrument to play second- or third-tier songs, or at best, play again the songs they’ve already played to death?
This product is about five years too late at least. Sure, some will play it, and some will dig it. But there’s no way this will thrive in an already over-saturated market. Mark my words: the next evolution of the music game genre will be the title I’m currently developing: ShamanMania. A game in which you have to drop peyote buttons and try to keep the rhythm with the rest of your tribesmen in order to connect with the Great Spirit and attain enlightenment. The best part? There is no game console. Stuff THAT in your plastic controller and toke it.
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