DJ Hero!

[dereksworl]

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DJ HERO™ Overview

The makers of Guitar Hero introduce an entirely fresh and innovative way to experience music. DJ Hero features an amazing variety of music across genres – tracks that you love and reflect who you are. Using an authentic turntable controller, you will spin and scratch more than 100 songs into unique mixes and become the life of the party. Get ready for a whole new phenomena in music.

Access Unprecedented Music Variety: Mix and scratch over 100 individual songs, highlighted in over 80 exclusive new mixes that blend genres of music, including hip-hop, electronica, R&B, Motown, pop, and rock. DJ Hero brings the hottest artists including: Black Eyed Peas, 50 Cent, Justice, Marvin Gaye, Beastie Boys, N.E.R.D, and more.
Experience Music in a Revolutionary Way: The DJ Hero turntable controller immerses you into authentic DJ culture allowing you to scratch, cross-fade, and beat match. Customize your mix with a variety of effects and samples transforming a face in the crowd into the life of the party.
Rule the Hottest Parties: Where Guitar Hero brought gamers into the world of rock ‘n’ roll, DJ Hero brings you into the hottest scenes around. Party in venues reminiscent of real world locales from around the globe including an ultra plush and sexy Hollywood Hills style mansion to an open air beach club in Ibiza.

Party with Your Friends:

Features online and offline multiplayer competitive and cooperative modes.
Game Modes: DJ vs. DJ, DJ + DJ, DJ + Guitar

Supports: DJ Turntable, Guitar

Update 5/29

Main Points:

The upcoming DJ Hero video game just landed two heavy hitters as MCs: Jay-Z and Eminem.
Both rappers are bringing their music to the newest offshoot of Activision's successful $2 billion Guitar Hero franchise. The game, played with a turntable-shaped controller, is due out this fall for PlayStation 3, PS2, Xbox 360 and Wii (no price or rating yet).

Players use the features on the game's controller — a rotating record platter, sampling buttons, an effects dial and a cross fader — to match streams of song tracks, create effects and add personal touches to score points.

In addition to single-DJ action, two players can compete or play cooperatively. Special mixes will let players use the Guitar Hero controller. The game spans hip-hop, electronica, R&B, soul and pop/rock with songs by 50 Cent, Beastie Boys, KRS-One, Blondie, N.E.R.D., Gorillaz and David Bowie. Superstar DJs such as DJ Shadow, DJ Z-Trip and DJ AM will contribute, too.

"You are going to get over 100 songs from 80 artists and 80 brand-new mixes that have never been heard before, including one with Eminem and Jay-Z (together)," says Guitar Hero president and CEO Dan Rosensweig.

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[hardcore_canadian]

Sounds like something I could be interested in.... Wonder if they'll be using pre-mixed songs, or we'll be making our own.... so many questions now

[Pelican170]

you gotta be kidding me, lol. I joked about this exact idea for a long time now! I knew i shoulda made it myself, hahahal.

[dereksworl]

Originally Posted by Pelican170

you gotta be kidding me, lol. I joked about this exact idea for a long time now! I knew i shoulda made it myself, hahahal.

i feel your pain. you dont know how many of my ideas are somebody millions right now.

Sounds like something I could be interested in.... Wonder if they'll be using pre-mixed songs, or we'll be making our own.... so many questions now

good question. gonna have to wait for more info.

[hardcore_canadian]

Originally Posted by dereksworl

i feel your pain. you dont know how many of my ideas are somebody millions right now.

Tivo... 'Nuff Said.... although I wouldn't have known how to do it

[dereksworl]

Originally Posted by hardcore_canadian

Tivo... 'Nuff Said.... although I wouldn't have known how to do it

This is a good discussion! i'll be right back, im gonna go open a thread about this in "off topic"

[hayzink]

man id get this in a heartbeat.

imagine it was 2 decks and it supported your own mp3 playback with a cdj style turntable

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by hayzink

man id get this in a heartbeat.

imagine it was 2 decks and it supported your own mp3 playback with a cdj style turntable

Not likely. Activision hasn't been that kind to their consumers. Look at the Guitar Hero franchise. They will, most likely, make it a very limiting experience so that they can cash in on the future of the franchise instead of just capitalizing on one round.

[dereksworl]

Originally Posted by Petra_Kalbrain

Not likely. Activision hasn't been that kind to their consumers. Look at the Guitar Hero franchise. They will, most likely, make it a very limiting experience so that they can cash in on the future of the franchise instead of just capitalizing on one round.

hehe, maybe Harmonix will steal Activision's thunder once again and come out with Club DJ or Disc Jockey Pro or somethin' like that.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by dereksworl

hehe, maybe Harmonix will steal Activision's thunder once again and come out with Club DJ or Disc Jockey Pro or somethin' like that.

I don't think Harmonix would ever touch this idea. DJ-ing isn't really "music making." It's more of a "music compiling/combining" technique. Harmonix creators are the classical definition of musicians. They want to create gameplay that directly relates to creating music from instruments, not from mish-mashing other artists previous works.

[hardcore_canadian]

Originally Posted by Petra_Kalbrain

I don't think Harmonix would ever touch this idea. DJ-ing isn't really "music making." It's more of a "music compiling/combining" technique. Harmonix creators are the classical definition of musicians. They want to create gameplay that directly relates to creating music from instruments, not from mish-mashing other artists previous works.

That sounds slightly hateful, and to be fair, many DJs make music, Moby for one, is a very gifted Artist, whose New CD is Amazing

[dereksworl]

Originally Posted by hardcore_canadian

That sounds slightly hateful, and to be fair, many DJs make music, Moby for one, is a very gifted Artist, whose New CD is Amazing

Touche

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by hardcore_canadian

That sounds slightly hateful, and to be fair, many DJs make music, Moby for one, is a very gifted Artist, whose New CD is Amazing

I don't consider Moby, and other artists like him to be "DJs." The term DJ refers to a "Disc Jockey." That is someone who rides the discs/tracks of other musicians and blends them to sound interesting and new. Moby, and artists like him, may add tidbits from other musicians work into his music, but he creates the foundation of most of his tracks from scratch. There really needs to be another term created for artists like them.

I have a very clear mind about what a DJ is... therefore, 'DJ Hero' may not be the proper title for the game if the game is entirely focused on creating your own music from absolute scratch (no pun intended). But then, if that is the basis of the game, how can there really be any progressive aspect to it? Isn't there software on the market that already allows you to make your own songs in this fashion? If there is a progressive aspect to the game, then it defeats the idea of being an artist since you will, essentially, just be creating patterns that are already programmed into the game software.

Maybe I'm just weird, but the term "DJ" to me implies copycat artistry or someone who can make the end of one song mix well in transition to the beginning of the next song.

[dzirzow]

This would have great potential for a game. All depends on how they make it. Would we be emulating mixes of Oakenfold, Tiesto, Cox, etc?

One has to remember, the shortage of Wii's in the US is due to the horrible value of the US Dollar compared to the Euro. In Europe, DJs are like rock stars. "Pop", electronic, etc. type music is extremely popular compared to it's level in the US. So there is a huge market and money to be made off of such a title.

[dereksworl]

OP updated with more info!

The upcoming DJ Hero video game just landed two heavy hitters as MCs: Jay-Z and Eminem.
Both rappers are bringing their music to the newest offshoot of Activision's successful $2 billion Guitar Hero franchise. The game, played with a turntable-shaped controller, is due out this fall for PlayStation 3, PS2, Xbox 360 and Wii (no price or rating yet).

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[Mr. J]

I'd buy this in a heartbeat!

[jkwest]

I ruined my record player when I was 8 doing some spinning and scratching.

[Ascended_Saiyan]

The music made me VERY interested in this!

[j-ro]

Originally Posted by Pelican170

you gotta be kidding me, lol. I joked about this exact idea for a long time now! I knew i shoulda made it myself, hahahal.

Actually this idea has been done. Konami had an arcade version to this like more than 10 years ago. it was called beatmania. This was even before the whole guitar hero explosion.

[GLaDOS]

Does every music/rhythm game from Activision has to have 'Hero' on every brand?