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(18 customer reviews) 69 of 70 people found the following review helpful
First impressions from a beginner,
October 19, 2011 william bankwitz - See all my reviews
= Fun: This review is from: Rocksmith Guitar Bundle (Video Game)
I purchased this game after a lot of decision making on whether or not to buy it.
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...Read more
48 of 49 people found the following review helpful
Guitar Review,
October 22, 2011 Cristin L. Frazer (Gridley, California United States) - See all my reviews
= Fun: This review is from: Rocksmith Guitar Bundle (Video Game)
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...Read more
28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Great Game!,
October 21, 2011 ADavis - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rocksmith Guitar Bundle (Video Game)
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...Read more
