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Activision has never been an innovator, especially in the music/rhythm genre. It managed to buy its way in by purchasing Red Octane and acquiring the rights to Guitar Hero franchise. The original developer of Guitar Hero, Harmonix, went on and created Rock Band; which Activision cloned with the Guitar Hero World Tour. So the real question is: HOW SUCCESSFUL COULD DJ HERO BE?

The controller has a free-spinning turntable with three Guitar Hero styled color buttons on the one hand, a crossfader and a Knob (an incremental decoder). Surprisingly, the controller shows a real life and tactile sensation which is priced at USD120. The quality of the turntable controller is without doubt; it could literally handle a couple of beatings and still work well.

DJ Hero has a parallel learning curve to Guitar Hero with its “minute to learn, lifetime to master” experience. By using the 3 buttons, the turntable and crossfader, you get a mix, but there is more to the mechanics for the more adventurous – like filters, rewinds, freestyle sections and the Euphoria which bears a similarity to Guitar Hero’s Star Power. DJ Hero can be intense at times, even with only a medium difficulty. But when you start packing your head around it, it’s all fun now.

There are more than 102 songs for DJ Hero plus 93 original mixes that were created from those songs. It is a good mix of artists, from Queen to Justice, Noisia, Foo Fighters, and even Eminem. The mixes are top notch, which is no surprise, since they were created by none other than Grandmaster Flash and DJ Shadow, giving proof of what talented remixers, DJs and mashup artists can use with existing tracks.

Despite the turntable controller paradigm, DJ Hero has less in common with the real life DJing like Guitar Hero is with real life guitars. Players do not have to worry about beatmatching (multiple tracks to play at the same tempo and in sync with each other) that distances DJ Hero in real life DJing.

When you’ve tried out the Guitar Hero franchise, then you’ve got to have DJ Hero as part of your party game lineup. Activision has really blown the music/rhythm genre with DJ Hero.

Looking forward to have a new game this Holidays? Better check DJ Hero Games where we will teach you how to play it.