Guitar Hero 5 Gets Playable Avatars

[Keane Ng]

Guitar Hero 5 Gets Playable Avatars

Your big-headed polygonal caricature on Xbox Live will be able to fulfill its dreams of rock stardom when Guitar Hero 5 launches with support for playable avatars.

Judging by the clothes available for your Xbox Avatar these days - skinny jeans, arm warmers, crazy facepaint - it's almost as if the things were designed to be in a Guitar Hero game, so it's really not much of a stretch or surprise to hear talk that the upcoming Guitar Hero 5 will support in-game playable Avatars.

It works basically the way you'd assume it would: you can import the Avatars on your 360's hard drive into Guitar Hero 5, and then play any of the songs in the game using them and an instrument of your choice. It works for the band mode as well, where you can mix-and-match Avatars with the musicians who come in the game, including franchise mascots like Judy Nails and Axel Steel.

My Avatar, who wears white facepaint (no it's not corpsepaint) and camo is all ready to Guitar Hero it up, but if you need to give your virtual dude or dudette the rock star treatment, the game features a "Create-A-Rocker" mode where players can "customize their creations with exclusive Guitar Hero clothing and accessories to ensure they look performance-ready."

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[Aura Guardian]

Well at least the Avatars system is getting better. I mean, even the Mii's are in retail games and not just downloadable games. So far, it seems the avatars are good for some arcade games and for the dashboard. A demo Xbox 360 has the avatars do more than a home version of the Xbox 360.

 

[Avatar Roku]

That's actually a decent idea. Too bad the last rhythm game I will ever buy is Rockband: Beatles, which is frankly the exception to my earlier pledge of "no more."

 

[Radeonx]

That's actually a decent idea. Too bad the last rhythm game I will ever buy is Rockband: Beatles, which is frankly the exception to my earlier pledge of "no more."

Maybe, but it's the Beatles. And I only plan on buying that, too.

 

[Armored Prayer]

This could turn out really good. Maybe other future games should try using the avatars.

 

[Jaebird]

One question: Can the avatars belch out the songs instead of singing?

 

[Deathsong17]

No Home avatars? Damn. Oh, well...

Anyway, this really was inevitible.

 

[hansari]

you can import the Avatars on your 360's hard drive into Guitar Hero 5, and then play any of the songs in the game using them and an instrument of your choice.

Instrument of my choice? Wow [http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om02500.html]

 

[cowbell40]

Seeing as the recent GH games have allowed for surprising depth in character and instrument customization, I'm not sure why we'd want to use the avatars, who don't look as good.

 

[Meado]

Seeing as the recent GH games have allowed for surprising depth in character and instrument customization, I'm not sure why we'd want to use the avatars, who don't look as good.

Well considering the male characters in GH:WT all look like heroin addicts no matter what you set the sliders to, I'm gonna call the avatars an improvement.

 

[Loop Stricken]

Well considering the male characters in GH:WT all look like heroin addicts no matter what you set the sliders to, I'm gonna call the avatars an improvement.

I made mine look like a zombie for precisely this reason.

 

[Xris]

Well, at least the avatars will be useful for once.

 

[Nerf Ninja]

I just checked out the trailer for this, the lip synching on the avatars was diabolically bad. plus they look really out of place when compared to the audience models. It kind of looks like the singer is wearing a big headed costume.

 

[hardter]

Slightly reminds me of GH1 when the synching was very bad. Although with a whole band of avatars it will look quite well but with one in the band he will look quite out of place I must say

 

[G1eet]

This could turn out really good.

It could, if they made a setlist that didn't suck harder than Monica Lewinsky.