Rhythm video games

Children wishing to find guitars under their Christmas trees this holiday should specify: wood or plastic?

The popularity of rhythm video games from the “Guitar Hero” and “Rock Band” franchises has placed fake guitars in the hands of countless role-playing rockers. I've slung my own plastic axe over my shoulder to review five of these titles in less than two years of covering video games for The Citizen.

A billion-dollar branch of the video games industry, rhythm games map sequences of multi-colored notes to rock hits ranging from “Paint it Black” by the Rolling Stones to “Enter Sandman” by Metallica. As the notes scroll down the screen, players must frantically match their fingers to the correct frets on a plastic guitar neck while flicking the instrument's strum bar.

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