Ubisoft unveils guitar game Rocksmith

wyan_ rock on dude!

@kwanzudood You do realize this is Ubisoft's first attempt in the guitar type games right? The other two guitar series are now dead and Ubisoft is trying to go in unchallenged. So none of this is milking or last ditched effort stuff. Actually, it's quite the opposite seeing as Ubisoft is going in fresh and has never done any of this guitar genre.

As a guitar player and a gamer I am intrigued. It would be fun to connect my Gibson Les Paul to my Xbox 360. If I can learn a new tune or two that would be good too. I am still hopeful that Rocksmith will be good. I can't wait to see game play in action. For serious guitar lessons you should check out Learn & Master Guitar course on DVD because it really works.

give us prince of persia insead of this crap ubisoft are just gona fail hard like they are on there dancing games

@Sk8rlink We are like minded, because that's exactly what I do son. I learn by ear and am quite good at it. It's also pretty challenging in itself, but sometimes it would be nice if there was a game or software that could do this accurately and with any song. That's all.

i MAY get it, if it does indeed support the electric guitar I already have. Rockband 3 was a step in the right direction, but being able to play with my own instruments instead of buying expensive peripherals is something the music genre should have done long ago. IMHO, I think it might be too little, too late.

This game is like taking crystal energy and ginko instead of medicine for cancer. Can it work? It may work beautifully or blow up in their face. I am very intrigued to see how the "teaching" portion of the game plays out though. Keep playing with fire Ubisoft you might have found some gold.

no....

@wyan_ if you really wanna learn a song on guitar, or actually any instrument, here is nothing better than just sitting down with a good pair of headphones and just listening over and over, so that you can find the notes yourself, and even better if you know how to write music, transcribe it, that way you can even add your own solos and stuff, this is much better than tabs, and although much harder, it is prportionally satisfying...PEACE

Of course, it took them this long to release a peripheral that would work with actual electric guitars, which should have been a no-brainer from the beginning. They wanted to milk customers with toy peripherals for as long as they could, and now that sales are slipping, they decided to allow actual guitars as a last-ditch effort to get a few more sales.

If only they could come up with a guitar game that could decode (for lack of a better word) any song and teach it, THEN I would buy.

@Marasca2 good point!! but it's gonna be cool to see how the guitar gaming experience changes now that real guitars are incorporated. maybe even more posers will jump in and turn musicianship into gaming... but then we'll see what happens...

Always wanted to learn to play guitar, but I'm not paying for daily "lessons" or buying expensive DVDS that teach nothing. But let me learn while playing a "video game"? Damn straight I'll buy that.

*yawn*

if teaches me how to play the guitar its a buy

Ugh... Just promise to include some actual Metal songs and I'll think about it. No more "Pop" songs that take no real talent to play.

Ubisoft is stepping on thin ice with this decision. We'll see what happens

Hm This should be quite interesting

Ok ubisoft lets see what you got, i will keep my eye on it for now

45 songs? Teach real guitars? not for wii? thats the best you can do, Ubisoft? And im pretty sure all of Nirvanas on RB. not so origional, huh?

A video game compatible with a real electric guitar?Certainly sound interesting.Had to wait and see if works.

sounds interesting, and ill admit i like the idea of playing real guitar in the game after i tried it out on rock band 3 (even though I suck big time at it). I'll wait until i see the setlist first before i consider it though

...why?

so this will teach me how to play real guitar? sounds good, but we'll see...

I can't work out which audience this game is targeting. Professional guitarists is my only guess but why would they need this when they can already play without it. The new rock kiddy era has passed now, thats a no. Gamers are bored of it. Casuals are bored of it. The whole idea just seems too risky to me.

If this goes well, I hope for combatability with bass-guitars as well!

"most electric guitars". Hmmm, if it supports Ibanez I might just try it...

"Tries to think of the last good ubisoft game".... uhm Assasins Creed Brotherhood HAS to come to your mind man... This is gonna be abit funny though, i don't see this as a game, i see it as great software for people who want to learn to play guitar by themselves

Could have better utilised all that development time and $$$, as im fairly sure an all new R6 would recieve a warmer welcome.

I'm hoping that it's just a disc and an aux to usb cable, if so the price might not be so bad, provided that you actually have a guitar.

better not just be really easy pop songs. cacophony is what we want :) i may buy this if this is what its like, never was good at guitar hero :) I am skeptical, it may bring around a new crowd of idiots who think they can play. Still, hope 1 of my many guitars works :D

they have guts i'll give them that but really seems like a stupid idea considering not everyone wants to learn how to play a guitar let alone learn from a video game. i don't see this being profitable especially if its 200+ for it. for that price i can get a ds xbox or wii or for a little more you can get a ps3 or 3ds.

Game seems too much like a glorified tab book to me. But if ubisoft can promise content for intemediate to advanced guitar players and not just pray on the beginners then i may be less sceptical.

Hmmm, maybe if they wait long enough to release it there will be some interest due to lack of competition. Otherwise this will be another item to add to the scrapheap of music games now that the fad is over.

omg when are these games going to die! enough with all the useless plastic peripherals filling up living rooms, like a plastic dj set, plastic band set, plastic skateboard, plastic guns to hold a controller, etc.

As an actual performing guitarist, I'm interested to play this, just to see how well they did with the idea... But I forsee a bust

This sucks, it's just another game that I will have gathering dust and taking up space in my store. Thanks a lot Ubisoft, you are about ready to regret this terrible decision.

I can hook up my own guitar!? Count me in. But please don't screw with the actual guitar playing experience or it's just going to be another one of those damn 'guitar' games I don't buy.

I have never bought a GH or Rock Band, but if I can connect my own Ibanez electric guitar to this game, then count me interested. if they don't dumb the actual experience of playing guitar, which is far more entertaining and REWARDING that matching a few buttons with on screen, they may have something that may find its way into some people who really play instruments.

They can have success but i recommend that they dont flood the market like the others did.

Hmm, hopefully the notes are accurate cause I think this could be fun to play with my Les Paul :D

"Rocksmith will sport songs not available in Rock Band or Guitar Hero games." ^^^ make or break right there.

@jiggidyjiggidy lol, i thought that real guitarrists played guitar instead of playing guitar games, and even though this is played with a real guitar, it's still a game

This might actually be good! been wanting to play a guitar hero-type game with my electric guitar....will be great for actual guitarists like myself!

Will it have death metal?

I might try this game out, but Rocksmith? Could use a better name... just my opinion...

Geez, people don't believe in second chances. All I read are comments on how the music genre is dead and, personally, I believe that it was the guitars that killed the games. Guitar Hero's drum set was a very accurate thing, whereas both of Guitar Hero's and Rockband's guitars were just lame attempts at entertainment. Instad of simply declaring the genre dead, I suppose I'll give a more constructive comment: I think it's a good approach, the fact that they're going to use actual strings, but they could introduce a bigger roster of songs and add the drum set, as well. Let's see how this turns out :)

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Finally. I hated buying plastic guitars for RB/GH. Always wanted to just plug in my electric guitar and play the songs without looking at (sometimes inaccurate) tabs on the internet. I'm sold if the setlist is any good.

BOOM facebook.com/rocksmithgame - waiting for them to upload videos and junk cuz that's all they do is promo on facebook and nowhere else now -- LET'S SLAY GUITAR HERO AND SHOW THEM HOW REAL GUITARISTS DOOOOOO!