Guitar Hero 5 will support Xbox Live Avatars

Nicholas "bapenguin" Puleo July 31st, 2009 at 9:01 AM

Could this be one of the first really interesting use of Xbox Live's avatar system? Activision has announced that Guitar Hero 5 will allows rockers to import their avatar into the game. Co-Op just got a whole lot more personal as your mini-me will shred virtual metal next to the rest of your friends and their avatars.

The game supports mixing and matching of the traditional Guitar Hero chracters with the avatar ones. The imported avatars can be further customized in the game's Create a Rocker mode, and no doubt, we'll see a premium Guitar Hero Avatar Marketplace launch this fall thanks to the new dashboard update.

What do you guys think - gimmicky addition or nice touch?

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5 Total Reader Comments

xxW4R EAGL3xx at 08:00 AM on 7.31.2009

OOOH! *pees pants in joy*

pheriannath at 08:09 AM on 7.31.2009

That's a cool implementation of Avatars, I approve.

Parflagush at 08:29 AM on 7.31.2009

What about Miis and Playstation 3 avatars? Either way, I think they just look too child-like for a game like this. I like making a custom baddass rocker dudes for these games.

pheriannath at 08:40 AM on 7.31.2009

Miis would be doable, but I'm pretty sure that PlayStation Home is unable to integrate with games at this point in time.

milpool at 10:08 AM on 7.31.2009

Why so they can sell us rocker clothes for our Avatar?

I saw a preview of some avatar sales and they wanted $2-3 per item and that was for monkey island stuff.

Neat idea, but it its just not rock n roll.