Guitar Hero Live with Guitar Controller (PS4)

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GameSpot 's Scott Buttersworth stated that many of the on-disc selections are pop songs that "just aren't cut out for Guitar Hero gameplay", as they feature the same repeating guitar riff over and over. The game follows a similar model as Guitar Hero: Metallica, and was developed by Neversoft and Beenox Studios for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and Wii.

Development for the game began in the second quarter of 2008, according to lead designer Alan Flores. Instead, at the urging of Ulrich, Neversoft successfully cleared "War Ensemble" and rushed to include it in the game at the last second. Expert does not introduce any other frets to learn, but adds more notes in a manner designed to challenge the player and to simulate the player's hands to move in a sequence similar to a real guitar. Two Guitar Hero products that were announced but never released were a Red Hot Chili Peppers-themed title [96] and a PlayStation Portable title that would have featured a drum component.As a result of the two purchases, Harmonix would no longer develop future games in the Guitar Hero series. Many of the Guitar Hero games developed for the recent generation of consoles (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii) support downloadable content, allowing players to purchase new songs to play in the respective titles. Guitar Hero Live is a 2015 music video game developed by FreeStyleGames and published by Activision. The songs in the game are presented in a linear series of sets as with older Guitar Hero games such as Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, instead of the gig progression used in World Tour. The closure also affected the DJ Hero series, as Activision stated that there were no plans to publish a music game during 2011.

It is by completing songs in this mode that the songs are unlocked for play across the rest of the game. Quick Play mode is a quicker method of playing songs, as it allows the player to select a track and difficulty, selecting the character, venue, and guitar and guitar skin for the player based on the song chosen. Ben Griffin of GamesRadar was more favorable of the on-disc set list, finding that the tracks represented "the music landscape as it is rather than as it was". The 1998 medley of covers of the band Mercyful Fate's songs "Mercyful Fate" is the longest track included in the game, running at around 11 minutes.

Both single notes and chords can also be sustained, indicated by a colored line following the note marker; the player can hold the sustained note(s) keys down for the entire length for additional points. It features full-band versions of 48 songs from earlier Guitar Hero games that only used the guitar controller.