Capcom Honors Guitar Hero By Playing MvC 3 With Guitar Controllers

Logan Westbrook

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Capcom Honors Guitar Hero By Playing MvC 3 With Guitar Controllers


Marvel vs. Capcom 3 [http://www.amazon.com/Marvel-vs-Capcom-Worlds-Playstation-3/dp/B003IEBO9Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297699742&sr=8-1] has never been so musical, and probably won't ever be again.

To honor the passing of the Guitar Hero series [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107672-Activision-Pulls-the-Plug-on-Guitar-Hero-Franchise], Capcom's Bochan Kim and Seth Killian threw down in a match of Marvel vs. Capcom 3 using Guitar Hero's distinctive guitar controllers. What's more, they filmed it for posterity and stuck it on the internet for all to see.

The fighters used the "Simple" control mode, as the guitar controllers have fewer buttons than a regular controller does and aren't really well designed for anything but music games. Killian picked Chun Li, Dormammu, and Dante as his team; Kim also chose Dante, but rounded out his squad with Ryu and Zero. For some reason Kim and Killian were standing on the wrong sides of the screen, respective to their characters, as if the match wasn't difficult enough already.

Either the Simple controls are very simple, or Killian and Kim are very good at the game - although it's probably a little bit of both - because if you didn't know they were using guitar controllers, you'd never guess. There are special moves and super-combos aplenty, and Killian even manages to activate his X-Factor mode, much to the announcer's surprise.

I won't reveal who wins, you'll have to watch the video to find that out, but as tributes to Guitar Hero go, this is probably one of the most inventive. It may also inspire a new breed of professional player - the Guitar Fighter - but that's a whole other story.

Marvel vs. Capcom 3 comes out for PS3 and Xbox 360 on February 15th.

Source: Capcom Unity [http://www.capcom-unity.com/snow_infernus/blog/2011/02/11/playing_marvel_vs_capcom_3_with_guitar_hero_controllers]


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Scrythe

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Whoa, Seth Killian? The very same Seth Killian they named this guy [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091106194450/streetfighter/images/b/b1/Se01.jpg] after?

In honor of this video, my friends and I will play this game the very same way on it's launch day until the stroke of midnight when we switch to regular controllers/joysticks (or at least until the novelty wears off).
 

hansari

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Logan Westbrook said:
It may also inspire a new breed of professional player - the Guitar Fighter - but that's a whole other story.>
The music peripheral genre is saved!!

 

Fappy

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Yeah I watched this on their blog yesterday. Try playing a shooter with a guitar hero control... its impossible :(
 

Bob_F_It

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Fact: I played MarioKart with a guitar when we were too lazy to take the wiimotes out.
 

Lord Beautiful

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Saw this a couple 'a days ago. I was hoping they'd use the flipper thingy for movement as opposed to the D-pad. It's still cool, though.
 

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Oh my goodness, MvC3 is actually released tomorrow!?? Bad time to not have a console. I hope it gets released for PC too, sometime.

OT: I love Capcom and this only reinforces that feeling.
 

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hansari said:
Logan Westbrook said:
It may also inspire a new breed of professional player - the Guitar Fighter - but that's a whole other story.>
The music peripheral genre is saved!!

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I almost peed my pants at that anderson silva pic! XD Thanks for making my day.
 

Zeraki

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... I am so going to do this with my friends when I get this tomorrow.
 

Rogue 9

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I've played Tekken with a DDR mat once at a Games night. Very silly, lots of fun.