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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Three more songs are being added to the Xbox 360 Guitar Hero II lineup tomorrow morning at 2AM Pacific, once again for the bargain basement or entirely too expensive price of 500 Microsoft points, depending on where you stand on that issue. The three new tracks consist of: Trivium – Detonation Atreyu – Right Side of the Bed Protest the Hero – Bury the Hatchet I won’t pretend to know any of those songs. If you do, get all excited and call me out for my lack of musical knowledge. If you don’t, side with me and together we can bring these music know-it-alls to heel for once and for all! New DLC Pack for Guitar Hero II – 360! [ScoreHero - Thanks Eddie]
Sure it’s stretching the criteria a bit, but with 650,000 combined downloads across multiple song packs and three songs per pack, that makes…well, 1,950,000 downloads, but I am sure Activision took that into account when they put out the press release below, which boasts two million song downloads. I have to wonder how many more they would have gotten by now had they not released the packs with the ridiculous $US5 price tag, but the $US3,250,000 they’ve made off of the DLC so far is nothing to shake a stick at. Just ask Dusty Welch, RedOctane’s head of publishing. “The Guitar Hero II downloadable video game song packs are some of the most popular content on Xbox LIVE and are quickly becoming a very lucrative revenue stream and powerful promotional vehicle for musicians and record labels today.”
Yep, we sure showed them. Overprice your song packs and we’ll boycott them so hard you’ll only make $3 million dollars. Take that!
Three song’s $US6.25. Sure, if you’re a fan of My Chemical Romance, that may not be too high a price to pay. But more than $2 a pop seems absolutely ridiculous to me. Activision really needs to start rethinking their pack prices with Rock Band looming in the not too far distance.
The pack includes “Teenagers,” “Famous Last Words” and “This is How I Disappear” as performed by My Chemical Romance Which seems to mean they’re not covers, which is nice, but next time, maybe try $1.50 a pop or so.
Another GHII download pack just hit Xbox Live. The good news? Depends on how much you like My Chemical Romance. If you do, great, there’s three new, original MCR tracks on offer. More likely option? You can’t stand them, the 500 points they’re asking is still 200-300 too many and this news will wash over you like a gently passing breeze. Still, small progress (least the songs are both original and cohesive…especially if you like MCR) is better than no progress at all! In Game Content: Guitar Hero II [Major Nelson]
Holy Good Lordia! This is amazing. Apparently the Lego-techie modelled this LEGO creation after the official GH2 Gibson model. Then he just gutted a real controller and popped them into his LEGO creation so he could jam… LEGO style. Incredible LEGO Guitar Hero Controller is Fully Functional [Tech E Blog]
