So, does the Promise live up to the Premise? Absolutely. Obviously, this is a long way of saying that the strings are color-coded on the screen so that you can focus on the notes floating at you, associate them with the correct string and, using the fret numbers that always float in the background, hit the right note at the right time. When you begin, the colored strings are laid out from top to bottom, the top string being the thickest and moving down to the highest noted string (which is inverted compared to tablature, but this is a setting you can change in the options menu). Now, here’s when things get complicated, fun, frustrating and completely realistic all at the same time: Each string is a different color and they are laid out like in tablature (in case you’ve never used tab, it’s literally a set of lines and instead of being color coded, the number of the fret is listed on the line you need to hit). The layout is similar to Rock Band or Guitar Hero (mostly out of necessity) in that the notes come floating towards you in different colors and you need to hold down the string and strum at the right moment. It’s a classic, and I love it and hopefully you do too. I did love that the very first song you play is (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones. Another thing you slowly unlock is different styles of guitar, as well as different effects pedals that you can use in Free Play, which basically lets you use your Rocksmith as an amplifier without needing to play anything in particular. Like Rock Band and Guitar Hero before it, each venue has several songs to master before you can unlock another venue and more songs. I did find this part rather tedious both because I found the sensitivity of the “volume” of how hard you’re rocking a bit lacking (don’t get discouraged, I think it’s a calibration thing) and because I’ve played guitar for a few years now, self taught so mostly just chords, but I know a lot of the basics the game teaches you when you first sit down.Rocksmith goes by the premise that you’re an amateur, just starting out and as you progress you are practicing songs until you’re good enough to play “a gig” at a music venue. Rocksmith starts out by giving you step by step instructions to plug your electric guitar in, get it in tune and make sure you know how to strum.
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