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Rocksmith

by Ubisoft
 Ages 12 and Over
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (82 customer reviews)

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  • Platform:   PlayStation 3
  • BBFC Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Suitable for 12 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 12. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 12 years of age or over.
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Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
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  • ASIN: B007KGI9C8
  • Release Date: 28 Sep 2012
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (82 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 197 in PC & Video Games (See Top 100 in PC & Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Product Description

Introducing the next stage in the evolution of the guitar game. Rocksmith is the first and only game where you can plug ANY real guitar into your console and actually LEARN while you PLAY.

Nothing plastic. Nothing fake. Just the most authentic guitar experience in music gaming. By plugging your electric guitar into your console, you’ll develop real skills and real styles while playing real music.

Featuring gameplay that automatically adjusts to your personal ability, and innovative game design that makes playing music visually intuitive, Rocksmith will engage experienced musicians as well as those who have never picked up a guitar before in their life.

You’ll unlock mini games to hone specific skills. You’ll be able to choose from a large catalogue of songs in different styles. And you’ll experience it all with an actual guitar. Nothing compares to playing a real guitar. Except playing Rocksmith.

The game will include the brand new Bass mode, offering players the opportunity to play bass guitar on all supported on-disc and downloadable songs.

Not only can players play the bass parts of songs, but bassists of all experience levels can also improve their skills with dedicated bass technique challenges and tutorial videos. Players can even use any 6-string guitar to emulate a 4-string bass. Tracking their learning has never been easier as bass progression is tracked separately from guitar progression.

Last but not least, all songs can be played in multiplayer with one person playing the bass part and the other the guitar part.

Key Features

  • When we say any guitar we mean any guitar: Whether it’s the guitar sitting in your attic that you have forgotten about up till now, or the guitar you are yet to buy, Rocksmith lets you plug any guitar into your console or computer. Electric guitar or electro-acoustic, as long as your guitar has a jack, you can play. And get plugged in right away as Rocksmith comes with a unique quarter-inch jack to USB cable!
  • Get Plugged In: Rocksmith will include a unique quarter-inch to USB cable that is the first of its kind, and will allow users to plug any real guitar with a quarter-inch jack directly into their Xbox 360®, PlayStation 3®, or PC. Developed exclusively for Rocksmith, this guitar cable is 11.25' and turns the guitar’s signal from analog to digital, allowing it to be recognised and played through video game consoles for the first time.
  • Real time adjustment levels: from beginner to rock god!: You love a challenge, but hate being overwhelmed. Rocksmith understands this, and knows exactly how far to push to keep you entertained. With addictive gameplay that adapts continuously to your personal skill level, you will automatically progress from single notes to complex chords at your own pace. Eventually you’ll be playing 100% of the actual guitar parts from the songs and the game will challenge you to step away from the notes on screen and play songs from memory. Imagine that. A video game that will get you stage-ready.
  • Bursting with Hits: One of the most satisfying moments for any guitar player is hearing yourself play your favourite song for the first time. Rocksmith has amassed an amazing library of songs from different music genres allowing players to experience those moments first hand. Whether you like classic rock bands such as The Rolling Stones, The Cure, Lynrd Skynrd or if you’re more into current chart-toppers such as The Strokes, Muse, Radiohead and The XX, we have you covered. And with our growing tracklist from metal to indie rock available for download, you will always find a song that suits your mood.
  • There’s always a way to develop your guitar skills and overcome your difficulties: Having troubles with the solo of your favourite song? The riff-repeater option is your saviour. It will isolate the song part of your choice, and let you repeat it over and over … until you eventually ace it! Want to improve your finger dexterity? Learn chords? Improve scales? For all of these and more, there’s a specific mini-game that will help you get it in Guitarcade. Rocksmith will turn your guitar into a controller, for instance, while shooting ducks in the Ducks mini-game you’ll actually be learning how to shift from fret to fret without even realising!
  • Turn your TV or computer into an amplifier: No need for an amplifier anymore, with Rocksmith your TV or your computer IS your amplifier and will let you try and play with loads of in-game pedals, amplifiers and cabinets. String pedals together with nearly infinite combinations and tweak your sound until you’re satisfied. Whether it’s a crunchy distortion, a vintage tremolo or a psychedelic reverb, we have it covered to make sure you can achieve the sound you’re looking for.
  • Play in multiplayer: Plug in a second guitar to go head-to-head with friends to see who can earn the highest score, or have fun playing cooperatively as lead and rhythm guitars. Also, all songs can be played in multiplayer with one person playing the bass part and the other the guitar part.
  • Brand new Bass mode: The game will include the brand new Bass mode, offering players the opportunity to play bass guitar on all supported on-disc and downloadable songs. Not only can players play the bass parts of songs, but bassists of all experience levels can also improve their skills with dedicated bass technique challenges and tutorial videos. Players can even use any 6-string guitar to emulate a 4-string bass. Tracking their learning has never been easier as bass progression is tracked separately from guitar progression.

Tracklist

  • Best Coast - When I'm with You
  • Blur - Song 2
  • Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
  • Dan Auerbach - Want Some More
  • David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
  • Eric Clapton - Run Back to Your Side
  • Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
  • Incubus - I Miss You
  • Interpol - Slow Hands
  • Jarvis Cocker - Angela
  • Jenny O.Well - Ok Honey
  • Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
  • Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
  • Little Barrie - Surf Hell
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
  • Muse - Plug In Baby
  • Muse - Unnatural Selection
  • Nirvana - Breed
  • Nirvana - In Bloom
  • Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
  • Queens of the Stone Age - Go with the Flow
  • Radiohead - High and Dry
  • Rapscallions - California Brain
  • Red Fang - Number Thirteen
  • Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook
  • Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch
  • Soundgarden - Outshined
  • Spoon - Me and the Bean
  • Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline
  • Stone Temple Pilots - Between the Lines
  • Taddy Porter - Mean Bitch
  • The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
  • The Black Keys - I Got Mine
  • The Black Keys - Next Girl
  • The Boxer Rebellion - Step Out of the Car
  • The Cribs - We Share the Same Skies
  • The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
  • The Dead Weather - I Can't Hear You
  • The Horrors - Do You Remember
  • The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
  • The Rolling Stones - Play with Fire
  • The Rolling Stones - The Spider and the Fly
  • The Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness
  • The White Stripes - Icky Thump
  • Titus Andronicus - A More Perfect Union
  • Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Good Enough
  • Velvet Revolver - Slither
  • White Denim - Burnished
  • Yellow Moon Band - Chimney


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81 of 83 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Rockmith + Patience = Guitarist 1 Oct 2012
Platform for Display:PLAYSTATION 3
Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   
I imported Rocksmith for the PS3 as a novice player almost a year ago and have put a large number of hours in since that time. Here are a few tips for those of you just starting out:

Lag - You don't need a fancy sound system if your TV displays too much lag due to its own processing of the HDMI signal. You can use a simple stereo, pair of headphones or an amp.

Game progression - Rocksmith can encourage you to run before you walk. For new guitarists, spend some serious time in guitarcade. The muscle memory it builds is an absolute must.

Setlist - This game made the light of day against all the odds. As a result, lack of buying power meant half the setlist was unknown to me. Approach it with an open mind. I've since bought several albums from artists I'd never heard of before this. Out of all of the tracks included by default, only two of them I can't stand.

Riff repeater - This is the best way to learn a track properly. Broken into managable chunks with speed or difficulties you can set. Rocksmith's documentation is awful and you may not realise how vital this is.

Practice offline - memorise riffs and play away from the game. You really need to hear what you are playing clearly.

Buy an amp - You must, must, must buy a guitar amplifier. Doesn't have too cost too much, but this is how your guitar is designed to be used. Rocksmith can be too forgiving on barre chords and will not be able to help you perfect other subtleties that your ears (and others) will pick up. You will also find out in short order what your guitar's pickups are capable of.

Use the internet - Justin Sandercoe and Marty Schwartz have provided lots of lessons and help, all free. Rocksmith is just part of your toolset to learn guitar.

Know your instrument - This will come with time, but learning to setup a specific type of guitar will save you mucho dinero. A stoptail bridge is the easiest to learn.

Upgrade - Sooner or later, unless you already have a good instrument, you will want to move on from the LP junior or other starter guitar. I have a Squier affinity fat strat (£160) and an Epiphone G-400 (£219). Neither are expensive guiars, but they are authorised copies of Fenders and Gibsons and represent excellent value for the money.

Always visit a local music store and try out before purchasing. If may cost a few pounds more to buy from a store, but they will almost always be willing to do a little work setting up the guitar how you want it before you walk out the door.
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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Slow to start but quickly becomes rewarding 4 Oct 2012
By C. Irwin TOP 500 REVIEWER
Platform for Display:PLAYSTATION 3|Amazon Verified Purchase
Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   
I bought Rocksmith because my son is learning guitar at school and getting him to practice is quite difficult. I thought that Rocksmith might encourage him to supplement the exercises his guitar teacher sets with a more fun environment where he learns through play. Initial results would suggest that it's going to work..

I also bought it because I started guitar a few years ago and never got past the strumming stage on basic chords and some basic melodies, so I thought it might help tweak up my skills too.

It's worth saying that Rocksmith isn't educational software - it doesn't try to teach you music theory - but it is designed to let you start off slowly and quickly builds difficulty based on your ability, all within a gameplay environment.

NB. You need to set up extra PS3 users if you want multiple people to use the game, otherwise the adaptive learning gets all screwed up - a good player would make the game too difficult for a beginner. Set up multiple users and each profile is optimised for the user.

FIRST FEW DAYS USE:

My son's experience so far:: He's been playing Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones and Next Girl by The Black Keys. On first run through it only wants you to play a note every bar or so, but after a few goes it adds more notes, and other strings, so that you build up the riffs. Even on the first goes my son was beaming at the end of the song. He played again before school this morning and loads of extra notes were added to Satisfaction - after initial fluster he got into the groove and performed it very well. He was absolutely delighted. Also, away from the PS3, he picked up his acoustic guitar and played the Next Girl riff. This is exactly what I hoped for - that the gameplay would transfer across to actual guitar playing.

My experience:: I'm also very pleased. I managed to level up a few songs and unlock games (training exercises, really) in the Guitarcade section and also unlock the amp section with allows you to play through your stereo using the amp emulations in the game. The guitar sounds are really good. Also, I've not experienced any lag between hitting the string and hearing the notes - probably because my PS3 goes into an AV amp so the TV is only used for video, with the audio going through surround sound speakers. My finger tips are sore this morning - because I overplayed yesterday.

[Update] After inverting the string display the chord charts are now the same as normal guitar tab. I suddenly had a leap in performance - 99% accuracy on QotSA Go With The Flow - exhilarating.

AFTER A FEW WEEKS
This is an immensely enjoyable way to improve your guitar skills. In the past few weeks I've managed to achieve decent levels on loads of songs and, after additional practice, have hit excellent levels on quite a few. As you go on it seems easier to take new songs in your stride. Part of this is the adaptive learning easing you in gently, but it's also the case that what you've already achieved gives you a huge degree of familiarity with chords (particularly power chords), note intervals, and string changing. As an example, I played the song "A Perfect Union" by Titus Andronicus for the first time this evening and, despite it throwing in some initially complex looking patterns up around the 12th and 14th frets of the A,D and G strings, I quickly grasped the pattern and managed to score in the mid thirty thousands. Second time through and I was over forty thousand. It has also incentivised me to perfect the song.. ..and maybe buy their album.

Also, I bought a second Real Tone cable so that my 8 year old son and I could play together. It works really well and makes for a hugely enjoyable social activity. The one thing I made sure to do was make my son understand that we weren't competing against each other - I guessed he would be disheartened if I scored massively more than him all the time - instead we were trying to improve our own scores and make music together as a team.

Downsides.
* If you go through the Career/Story mode without exploring the Techniques section the game can throw up some surprises - the main one being that it will suddenly want you to play chords when up to that point you've only been playing single notes - this is really confusing and throws you off your stride. A trip to the Techniques section will help.

* Locked content. Because it's a *game* and not a guitar tutor the Guitarcade and Amp modelling sections are initially locked and you need to reach a certain level of proficiency to unlock them. This is pretty annoying, especially the amp modeller.

* Downloadable Content (DLC) - Ubisoft are promising that the huge amount of songs and song packs available to US Rocksmith owners will be available to UK users before Xmas. In the meantime we've got the in-game songs and about a dozen songs in the inline store. I'm waiting for song packs, which are better value, before I commit to buying any additional content.

Tips::
* Go into options and set the string display to inverted - this way the chord charts match with traditional guitar tablature - great if you already play guitar but it also means that beginners will be able to transfer skills learned in Rocksmith to the real world.
* If you're definitely fretting in the right position but Rocksmith registers it differently, you're probably fretting too hard and bending the tone upwards a little.
* You can play bass as well as guitar using Rocksmith.
* If you get a second cable you can have multiplayer - guitar/bass or lead/rhythm
* If you have USB microphones from Singstar/Rockband you can sing along.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars I've been waiting a long time for this! 29 Sep 2012
By ChrisR
Platform for Display:PLAYSTATION 3
Fun: 4.0 out of 5 stars   
I'm not very good at writing reviews, but if you're like me, and wondering if this 'game' could be beneficial in helping you to learn how to play the guitar, then here is my opinion.

I've been trying to learn the guitar for over 16 years. I've attempted countless different lessons, from free ones on YouTube, to a complete guitar course which cost me an arm and a leg. Like so many other people, I soon became impatient and bored with learning the basics - how to hold the guitar, chords and scales, I just wanted to play music, and I wanted it there and then. After many failed attempts, my guitar has been sat in the corner gathering dust, while I'm happily rocking out on my plastic axe to Guitar Hero and Rockband.

When I saw Rocksmith, my eyes lit up. Could this be what I've been waiting for for 16 years? I traded half my entire games collection to get this, and was it worth it? I would say definitely yes. You can already see from the screenshots that it has a similar 'feel' to the aforementioned games, but it's so much more than that. As a learning tool, there's no boring scales or chords to learn, not right away. You're plunged head first into playing your first song, and the beauty of it is, is that the game 'reads' your level, and adjusts itself accordingly. You start off playing on one or two strings with one finger, and if you are good at it, the game starts to add a bit more, gently squeezing a little bit more out of you. If it becomes to hard, the game steps back and lets you catch up. Basically, it's all about practice. After playing "I can't get no satisfaction" a few times in the game, I found that I could play it on my own afterwards, and that is unprecedented for me.

I've only been playing it for a few hours, and I intend to practice for an hour per day. The game recommends each exercise for you based on your capabilities. I think I've finally found the best way to learn how to play (for me anyway) Even Hendrix learned how to play just by watching and listening to others :P

There is a slight issue with the lag between playing a note, and actually hearing it as others have mentioned. It's not a big deal at this stage, but I've yet to see if it becomes a major issue further on down the line. There is a solution to the problem anyway, if you Google, there are many references to it, and how to fix it. I certainly wouldn't let it put you off buying this.

With a growing database of extra tracks to download from the store, I can see that this product is going to keep me entertained for a long time to come. It puts 'fun' back into learning the guitar.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brill!
It arrived FAST and well packed. I can't say more because it wasn't bought for me and I know little about the product and what it does. Read more
Published 3 days ago by S11lko
3.0 out of 5 stars Check guitars before buying this
I purchased this as my husband wanted to learn guitar. I also purchased a great guitar only to find that my husband could not physically bend his fingers to play. Read more
Published 6 days ago by DEBORAH CAMPBELL
5.0 out of 5 stars Rocksmith - To Buy or not To Buy
In short Buy it!!!.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
OK so why 3 stars. It could be much better. Quicker, nicer interface, better multiplayer. But overall, you have to buy it.
Published 1 month ago by Mr. Mj Rice
4.0 out of 5 stars awesome!
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Published 1 month ago by Mr. I. Warwick
3.0 out of 5 stars If you play guitar, get this game - but not for newbies
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Published 1 month ago by G. Nelson
5.0 out of 5 stars Rocksmith PS3 Review
LOVE IT! I haven't practiced a lot on my own but this motivates me to practice every day! Can be fun! The games that you unlock are really fun and help a lot! I recommend that. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ice Kold Killa
4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing game !
Simple the best Guitar & Bass Game (teaching Tool) out on the market, the only down side is the PS3 version is very slow to load and change from 1 song to another when compared to... Read more
Published 2 months ago by D. Berry
2.0 out of 5 stars Freezes too much.
I do really like this game and it is a game. It will not teach you to play guitar.
The biggest problem with the game is the amount of freezing. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Beanie
3.0 out of 5 stars Many issues for an otherwise great game
This is a great way to get into guitar or if you're an intermediate player, like myself, it's an interesting challenge and great way to introduce new songs. Read more
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