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Power Gig: Rise of the SixString review: God took rock 'n' roll from you
There's something you need to know up front about Power Gig: Rise of the SixString -- something I wish I had known before I first got my hands on it: It will not, cannot teach you to play guitar. At its heart, it is a Guitar Hero or Rock Band clone; or, to be more precise, a Guitar Hero or Rock Band homunculus, as every single element of Power Gig -- gameplay, control, visuals, progression -- is merely a shoddily reproduced feature of its rhythm gaming predecessors. I want to be completely clear about what I mean when I say that Power Gig: Rise of the SixString is half-baked. I literally mean that it's built upon a fragment of a concept, as if, while pitching the title, Seven 45 Studios was cut off mid-sentence, and forced to create an entire game based on a fraction of a clause: "So, you play the game with a real guitar, and --" %Gallery-87728%
Meet the members of Clan Rise in new Power Gig trailer
Power Gig: Rise of the Six String director Jack Davis is back to tell us more about the story of the real-life guitar driven music game. It's still not the most original thing we've ever seen -- building a revolution against an oppressive regime isn't new ground for video games by any means. But the new trailer tells us a bit more about the player characters in the game, two members of "Clan Rise" that each have their own personal reasons for strumming and fretting away on the guitar. Learning that C chord is great and all, but avenging your parents in the process is a nice bonus.
