I did not own or even played a guitar before so I purchased the bundle for the 360. The reason that I could not decide to buy this game or not revolved around two items. 1:Was I really going to play it, with my knowledge of the guitar it will take a lot of commitment. 2: I heard that there was a audit lag. this was a break or not break deal. I did not want to put a lot of extra work and configuration into getting this game playable.
Here is my experiance with this game (I played about 1 hour so far). First of all I have a old Xbox 360 using component cables and the HD TV internal speakers. (with this setup, I cannot detect any audio lag additionally there was some instructions to set the TV and Xbox to the TVs native resolution (I did noting about this works great).
Guitar tuning: Knowing nothing about the guitar, I was very nevous with this point. The game does a volume test (annoying)and a Guitar tune up. the Guitar in the bundle had very loose strings, So it took me a while to get what the game told me to do. But I did get the guitar tuned after about 10 minutes on trial and error. The game does do a excellent job in this area, I was just dense and did not what to screw things up.
Game play: This was very fun. I picked up the concepts very fast. I did put on the fret number stickers (Very helpful to me). Played the first song, and felt very satisfed with my first attempts. With the first song on Rocksmith, The difficulty started to ramp up rather quickly, this also made me feel that I do have some hope with a guitar. I also have Rockband 3 and the PRO Fake guitar. the Rockband guitar tutorial is not so intuitive, I usually drop the guitar part and go to the Key Board which is more fun on that game. To wrap this up, I am very glad that I bought this game, and I am very happy with the included guitar and quality of the interface.
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This is more a review of the guitar that comes bundled with game, not so much the game itself. There are lots of game reviews to read.The guitar bundled with Rocksmith is a Epiphone Les Paul Jr. Epiphone is basically a Gibson but made overseas and without the refinement. Think of it this way, if Gibson had studied music at Julliard, Ephiphone would have gone to state college. While Epiphone makes some damn fine guitars, Gibson is just more refined.
That said the guitar bundled here is a very, very nice guitar. There are two options, sunburst, which is what's pictured on this site, and pure black. I chose the sunburst. This is a full sized guitar, not a 3/4 scale. There are two knobs, one for volume, the other for tone. One humbucker style bridge pickup is located centerally on the body. The bridge itself is of fair quality and non-tremolo style. The string tensioners are good and seem to hold tune. I played for about three hours and didn't even have to make minor adjustments. The strings are okay. For starting out they will work well but you may quickly outgrow them. Their tone seems overly bright to me but I come from a background playing bass so what do I know.
With the provided strap the guitar rests comfortably and does not seem overly heavy nor overly light. There is zero head dive which surprised me considering that every Epiphone bass I've played dove like crazy (anyone ever playing an SG-2 knows what I'm talking about here)
All in all this is a very good quality guitar. Considering the game retails without the guitar for $80 and $200 with I would say the price is fair. If price is of concern there are dozens of used Epiphones to be had for about half of what this one retails for new however I certainly don't feel cheated having bought this bundle.
Game 5/5 stars
Guitar 4.5/5 stars (half a star down for strings)
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I have had this game for a few hours now, and I can already feel myself getting better. It comes with the guitar, two picks, a strap, a USB cord, and a regular guitar cord (for plugging into an amp). It's very easy to set up. You take it out, plug it in, and you're good to go. It takes you through a brief tutorial on how to play, and then tunes the strings, telling you how to do it. Before every song, it has you retune your guitar for that song, or makes sure your guitar is still in tune. Then you play. At first glance, it is very intimidating, especially if you're used to playing Rock Band or Guitar Hero. Stick with it, though. It gets easier as you go. As you get better, it introduces new techniques, and offers a "challenge" to better teach you how to play using those techniques. I am a beginner guitar player. I played a number of years ago, and didn't take formal lessons. I jumped right in and felt at home. You have two options; you can play your "journey," where you practice a few songs, get a high enough score to qualify, then go perform them to move on. Your other option is to just jump into whatever song you wish. I found myself doing both.The bottom line is, if you were having second thoughts about buying this game, just go for it. If you want to learn how to play, you will. It really is wonderful. Yes, the guitar is a "cheaper" version, but if you're just starting to learn, you don't need anything better. And the good thing is, once you get better, you can buy a better guitar and use it for this game because it works with ANY GUITAR. It honestly is wonderful. You won't regret this purchase.
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I am a beginner. No experience at all. I bought the bundle that had the guitar. The guitar that comes with it is a low end cheap guitar but in my opinion it's perfect for someone who knows nothing about guitar. This guitar is very simple. 1 humbucker, 1 tone knob, 1 volume knob. I've read alot of reviews of people bashing this guitar and I can see why someone with alot of experience would not like this guitar. I've read that this guitar won't stay in tune (bad tuners) and the pickups (humbuckers) are cheap. Maybe so, but for this game, I think it is perfect. The guitar is plugged up to the game anyway and is amp'd to the sound it needs for the song you are playing. so you're really not going to notice that it is not "perfectly" tuned. Unless you are great at guitar. (and if you are you won't buy the bundle)But if you are planning to plug this guitar up to an amp and jam, you will probably find that it's not that great.
Ok, here's what most of us do...(what I did anyway).
We want to learn and play guitar. So we research, ask around, and go out and buy a real nice guitar (expensive) and sign up for lessons and after a few lessons and hours of boring exercises, we get aggravated and quit. sell the guitar for a loss and later we get the itch again and wish we hadn't. LOL.
Guitar is hard. Don't let anyone tell you different. Those boring finger exercise are CRITICAL for learning and this is where, in my opinion, this game rocks!
This game will not teach you music theory and alot of other very important tips and techniques. But it is great for finger muscle memory, fretting, shifting and other cool stuff. I believe this is a wonderful starting point that very well could get you ready for the next level. Get you over that "hump" if you will. Because it is alot of fun to play this game. When something is fun, you will more likely stick with it. And this definately is!
Been playing six hours and already seeing improvement. Very little mind you but any improvement is awesome! Motivation! That is the key. And this game definately will do that for you. Now don't get me wrong, it's still hard but this game starts off very slow and if you are doing well, it speeds up. If you start back sucking (and you will), it goes back down to easy. If you are having difficult with a certain section of a song, it has a riff repeater so you can pratice just that section. Has mini games that are designed to work on your finger exercises and develope muscle memory.
Lots of people complain about the track selection but these tracks were chosen for a reason, ease of play. It starts you off on a song that is designed for beginners and then builds from there. There was alot of thought put into these tracks and the progression of the play. If you are a beginner like me you won't mind the tracks so much. They're not that bad, I like em.
I don't know if I'd go as far as saying that this will teach you guitar, but It will teach you alot of techniques and get your fingers going where they should. I will say you will definately get alot of good from this and having loads of fun in the process.
If you are great at guitar, you *may* find this boring.
But for the rest of us, It gives us hope. I bought the bundle but the game works with any guitar.
This is what I don't like about the game so far...
Load times...Long load times. Hate waiting on it to load.
Tuneing every song.
The menu can be a bit confusing.
Wish the learning curve was more spaced out...seems like there is too big of a jump between super easy and to where it starts getting tougher. wish there were more inbetween if that makes sense. But then again that is what the riff repeater is for.
Overall, If you are brand new to guitar or have some experience, this is tons of fun and great exercises. Like I said, If you can master this game while haveing fun, In my opinion, you will be ready to go out and hire a great instructor and take off and not look back. No more quitting this time.
Oh and as far as the lag some people describe, for me it was opposite, set my tv on game mode. Had to use HDMI instead of av cables. There was lag with the av for me and none with the HDMI. I've notice others said the opposite. anyway
Great game/exercise tool.
Best advice I ever heard with guitar is..., "Stop dreaming and start playing".
Hope this helps.
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