Are you one of the guitar hero? or member of the Rockband. For sure you know those two games, it’s hard not to have heard of Guitar Hero by now. After sweeping the nation in frenzy over the past year, by Harmonix and Red Octane. But how do you find the look of the guitar? after many attempt to meld real guitars and yet most of them still looks like a fisher-price toys.
I’m sure you want something like a real guitar or use your own fender stratocaster guitar or Gibson Les Paul and rock like Joe Satriani. Well, it looks like a company called GameTank has answered your call with a game called Guitar Rising, which allows you to use any guitar to play. The PC game takes audio input basically any way it can get it — direct audio in, microphone, or 1/4-inch-to-USB adapter and allows you to play along with a catalog of tunes at beginner to expert difficulties.
According to GameTank’s CEO Jake Parks, the connection to the guitar would either work “via a guitar-USB adapter, a microphone, or directly to the sound card.” He told us that they are planning to release for both Mac and PC.

The cool thing about Guitar Rising is that it isn’t a simple videogame, but combines the fun of playing and beating scores to actually teach you how to play the real thing. While they “are in the process of licensing popular rock songs, and we’ll announce them on our website as soon as we finalize the deals,” there will be different songs for different levels of difficulty to ease the learning curve, as well as different speed settings, so you can start slow and progress until you master the song at real speed. In fact, they say that the song selection will include stuff easy for beginners but also songs challenging for experienced players
GameTank says Guitar Rising will be out late this year. So for now check the video to tease your appetite for real Guitar Hero.