Guitar Hero - With LAG!
Sorry, I just can't give you a 10, because you've made a game which is good and has some of the things that Guitar Hero 3 never really had (the ability to play the drums and a decent plot, for example), but then replaced them with one massive ball-ache in the lag.
When it all boils down to it, there was a wonderful start to the piece, where you get a great view of plot, setting up your band with a dress-up mini game and then the parts where you see the story unfold, while you practice your own tracks, learn covers off other people and gradually expand your profile. I thought the progression was a little steep, in that you have to play for ages at a sold out garage before you can save up enough money to progress to the bar, because a $500 rental for a bar for 1 night seems a little excessive in real world terms. In the UK, at least, they tend to pay the bands for turning up, not expecting them to stump up to play.
With the medals, you might have gone a little more across the board, losing some of the smaller medals and going for things like completing the story, having one for selling out, one for acquiring an amazing amount of fans, even one for all achievements unlocked, that sort of thing. The linear progression of them.
It's a good game but you've got some work to do to improve this for the next instalment of Punk-o-Matic.
There's great voices in here and I can understand that you've cut down on the actual animation side of things in order to enhance the gameplay, which is a worthy sacrifice, since your target market is the gamers, as opposed to the movie style viewers. A good use of voice actors and well spread out. Keep up the good work and keep them in work!
Finally, with your song "Rebirth", it's a great piece, but as a bassist, the intro is so long, dull and boring, Perhaps cut out some of the pauses and allow the start to flow into the main body of the song and it would be so much better.
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