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I can be happy in second place, happier in third. At least if I’m playing Disney and Black Rock’s upcoming racing game Split/Second.
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When you think Disney you don’t typically think off-road racing. Which is probably why Disney Interactive bought up Black Rock Studios, a developer known for their off-road racing titles, including their work on the ATV Offroad Fury and MotoGP franchises. This time around the studio created Pure, a brand new franchise for Disney that focuses more on the exhilaration of speed and tricks than on the nitty-gritty of realism and detail.
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I doubt many of you played Hannah Montana: Music Jam on DS and if you did, you probably wouldn’t admit to it here. But if you had, you would recognise the DS version of Ultimate Band right away because it’s pretty much the same game – sans Hannah Montana.
Your guitar/bass fills up both screens of the DS and notes appear as little icons that fall down along the strings from the top screen to the touch screen. When they get there, you have to tap them while pressing the D-pad button specified in the icon. This setup comes with a lefty variation that uses the X, Y, A and B buttons on the right. The drums are a little different this time around – they’ve been tilted on the screen so there’s more surface area for you to tap your stylus.
Disney’s upcoming four-wheeler PURE is going to be packed to the brim with house, electronic and hip-hop music it looks like.
The upcoming racer’s soundtrack will include music from DJ Hyper, The Answer, Tapework and Blindside to name a few. Here’s a partial track list for the game, due out on the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 later this year:
Ultimate Band is Disney Interactive’s answer to those people who want to have the music band game experience without the need for all of those expensive, room-filling peripherals that are required for titles like Rock Band and Guitar Hero World Tour.
This band game light is both peripheral and original music free, using only cover bands so the developers would be allowed to tweak the music to better fit the game. Those tweaks include the ability to have the lead singer be either a man or a woman, no matter who originally sang it.
The Disney folks told me that they did a number of focus tests during their development of the game. In them they asked potential gamers which of nine versions of the game they would want to play. The options ranged from a peripheral-heavy version of the game with original music, to the game they ended up producing. All of the tests showed, they told me, that gamers wanted a game that didn’t require peripherals.
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