| Guitar Hero: no strings attached
Christmas season, selling 290,000 copies. Now Harmonix is scrambling to complete Guitar Hero II. There are already more advance orders for the sequel than the number of sold copies of the original game. The first Guitar Hero would have sold much better, except for a shortage that made the game hard to come by during the holidays. Blame it on the guitar. Every copy of the game comes with its own axe, a game controller shaped like a rock guitar. But all the guitars are built at a single factory in China. "They haven't been able to make the plastic guitars fast enough," said Harmonix chief executive Alex Rigopulos, a musician. And of course you can't be a rock god without the ability to hurl six-string thunderbolts. The pseudo-guitar is the secret of Guitar Hero's success.
Guitar Hero II Update
June 16, 2006 - Party in a box. That's the simplest way to define Guitar Hero. It's one of those games that simply demand your attention. And, as it happens, everyone standing next to you, as well. Why the interest? To put it simply: because it rocks. Harmonix created a mini-miracle with Guitar Hero, much in the same way NanaOn-Sha did with PaRappa the Rapper. They may not seem that similar, but they each tied awesome tunes with highly addictive gameplay. .
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