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DJ Hero
DJ Hero primarily simulates turntablism, a musical style used by disc jockeys to create a new mashup song by incorporating one or more previously recorded songs played on record players along with sound effect generators. The game features score attack gameplay similar to the Guitar Hero games. The controller consists of a wireless deck consisting ...
Details
- Released
- October 26, 2009
- Developer
- FreeStyleGames, Exient Entertainment
- Genres
- Music
- Publisher
- Activision
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In an overcrowded genre of music games, DJ Hero resides at the very top with the best of 'em. The original mixes are stunning and scratching the turntable is just as fun as it seems. It's not as full-featured as Rock Band 2 or Guitar Hero 5, but the simpler presentation really works in its favor. Like an '80s arcade, mixmasters will be gunning for those high scores on the leaderboards. A little headroom has been left for improvement with a sequel, particularly in the head-to-head battles and the way leaderboards display scores. But DJ Hero is already the most exciting music game around an...
It may still be finding its feet in the world, and it certainly has room to improve, but for a first effort it's managed to do almost everything right.
DJ Hero expands Guitar Hero's signature social gaming to all-new consumers with the addition of diverse music genres including hip-hop, R&B, Motown, electronica and dance. An all-new turntable controller transforms players into DJs by creating original mixes of popular songs and music from the world's most exciting artists and DJs.
DJ Hero comes with a great controller, which represents the turntable and mixer of a real DJ's set-up. The turntable is topped with three coloured buttons - Guitar Hero stylee - with the furthest left button triggering the first record, and the furthest right button triggering the second record. The middle button is used for samples and the crossfader on the mixer allows you to cut between tracks. Don't worry if all of this isn't making much sense, there's a great tutorial with Grandmaster Flash that'll introduce you to the basics.
As if you didn’t have enough plastic musical peripherals lying around your house, Activision decided to make one more to add to your collection. Without it, you’re no longer the cool kid on the block... with it, well, you’re still not the cool kid on the block, but you have definitely broadened your horizons. Of course, I’m talking about Activision and FreeStyleGames’ latest musical title, DJ Hero. Initially, the title seemed like a typical Activision musical cash-in, but if you dig...