While guitar games may not be quite as frequent as they used to be, with Guitar Hero having fallen by the wayside, and Rock Band coming to a somewhat unceremonious conclusion earlier this year (although they are at least thinking about a new one), fans of rock music-based rhythm action games haven't really had anywhere to turn to get their fix. But for those of you who have a real electric guitar buried amongst all those plastic ones and fancy taking things to the next level, Ubisoft's Rocksmith 2014 looks set to let you rock out with the pros, thanks to its innovative adaptive difficulty, that'll take you from playing an incredibly simplified version of the track to the real deal on your real guitar. With the latest instalment in the Rocksmith franchise out this month, Ubisoft have finally decided to grace us with the full song list we'll be strumming our way through in the coming weeks - with a fair few familiar faces popping up:
- Aerosmith - Walk This Way
- Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy
- Alice In Chains - Stone
- Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine?
- Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country
- Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
- Boston - Peace Of Mind
- Bush - Machinehead
- B'z - ultra soul
- Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me (2012)
- Deftones - My Own Summer (Shove It)
- Iron Maiden - The Trooper
- EarlyRise - Wasteland
- Fang Island - Chompers
- Foo Fighters - Everlong
- Gold Motel - Brand New Kind Of Blue
- Green Day - X-Kid
- Jack White - Sixteen Saltines
- JAWS - Stay In
- Joe Satriani - Satch Boogie
- Kiss - Rock And Roll All Nite
- La Sera - Love That's Gone
- Magic Wands - Black Magic
- Mastodon - Blood and Thunder
- Minus The Bear - Cold Company
- Monster Truck - Sweet Mountain River
- Muse - Knights Of Cydonia
- Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
- Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
- Pantera - Cemetery Gates
- Paramore - Now
- PAWS - Sore Tummy
- Queen - We Are The Champions
- Radiohead - Paranoid Android
- Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
- Ratt - Round And Round
- Red Fang - Wires
- R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
- Rise Against - Savior
- Rush - The Spirit Of Radio
- Screaming Females - Rotten Apple
- Slayer - War Ensemble
- Splashh - All I Wanna Do
- System Of A Down - Hypnotize
- Tak Matsumoto - Go Further
- The Dear Hunter - Stuck On A Wire Out On A Fence
- The Kinks - You Really Got Me
- The Police - Every Breath You Take
- The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black
- The Shins - For A Fool
- The Smashing Pumpkins - The Chimera
- The Who - My Generation
- Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Mary Jane's Last Dance
- Weezer - Say It Ain't So
- White Zombie - Thunder Kiss '65
With tracks taking in several generations of rock music, and several huge names on the line-up, there's certainly plenty of tracks we're looking forward to having a go at ourselves. That said, of the 55 songs on offer, a fair chunk have appeared on Guitar Hero and Rock Band games in the past - Nirvana's 'Heart Shaped Box' from Guitar Hero II, original Rock Band's 'Say It Ain't So' by Weezer and the Foo Fighter's 'Everlong' that appeared on Rock Band II, to name but a few. Of course, this time round, you'll be learning to play the actual song, rather than simply mashing buttons on a plastic guitar, but it'd be nice to see a few, less standard tunes make the grade.
Despite what the name suggests, Rocksmith 2014 will be hitting the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in just over a week's time, on the 25th October. With songs from the original game set to transfer across to the sequel, making an already impressive song list even more diverse, any wannabe rockers should start packing their plectrums now - and check back in a few weeks' time for our full review.
