The psychedelic sequel to Bit.Trip Beat improves upon its predecessor and has an entirely different sort of rhythm shooter action.

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After the huge success and numerous million gross revenue from the Guitar Hero series made by Activision, they have decided to publish another Hero series feature, but this one is made more for R&B, rap and different types of dance music. It is Wii DJ hero for the Nintendo Wii, a turntable controller dependent, beat & music game from Activision. If you bought, seen or know the games from the Hero series like Guitar Hero, which made a tremendous success in gross sales, then this new DJ version game will be in the same quality standards that we got used to in the Hero series and will bring participants a feel of being a club DJ star.

That’s not the only DJ wannabe game to be released this year. Konami will be publishing the Beatmania game that is pretty close to the DJ Hero Wii game. But, the Activision game should give a near reality experience with a high quality mixing like music, that will give the dance floor music amateur their high BPM dosage. Other stimulating better features are the exclusive new songs from Eminem & Jay-Z that were made solely for this DJ Hero game

Activision claims that the game is about spinning, remixing and playing like a DJ as if you are making a gang of dance lovers, that enjoy that kind of music that you hear in a club and dance their brains out. The game will include song genres like Rap, R&B and hip-hop, different genres of dance music that usually will be preferred by the club goers and others that are partisans of this rhythm of sound.

Two other glamorous features are the freestyle mode that will bring you the opportunity of spinning and mixing that is just like the professionals. This is the chance to realize the dream of becoming a DJ.

The second exciting feature is 10 songs that are played both with the turntable controller of the DJ Hero game and with the guitar controller from the Guitar Hero game. This will permit the fans of rap, metal and rock metal to play dance style music with electric guitar tracks.

DJ Hero will be available for Nintendo Wii, PS2, playstation and Xbox 360 at the end of October 2009.

The latest rumors that are going around the net are that both the developers and the distribution companies want to have uniformed Hero gameplay experience by incorporating all the controls of old and upcoming Hero games in the future games. This means that you will be able to play with the guitar, turntable, drums and microphone.

After numerous iterations, Dance Dance Revolution is back for yet another year. The biggest change to the series this time is a brand-new eight-way dance mat peripheral for the PlayStation 3. There’s also good news for existing Xbox 360 DDR fans: their dance mats will also work in eight directions thanks to the existing pad’s nine sensors. Like with other dance/rhythm games, the additional buttons will come into play only at the harder difficulty levels, so novices won’t be overwhelmed at the beginning. For DDR pros, however, the addition of four more pads will certainly up the ante this year. Wii Fit owners will also be pleased to know that DDR is compatible with the Wii Balance Board.

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Next installment in Activision’s popular rhythm game franchise bringing 85 new tracks to Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and PS2.

Today, Activision pulled the trigger on its own official announcement for Guitar Hero 5, following on from Friday’s inadvertent reveal by one of the publisher’s European publicity partners. While much of the information contained in today’s announcement isn’t new, Activision’s official word did bring a few original tidbits of information. Namely, the publisher said that the next flagship installment in its popular rhythm game franchise will arrive this fall for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, and PlayStation 2.

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The second game in this wonderfully retro rhythm-shooter series is due to arrive on WiiWare this summer, and we’ve got hands-on impressions.

Released this past March, Bit.Trip Beat was a game that seemed tailor-made for the WiiWare service. Its intentionally lo-fi sound and stylized pixel graphics didn’t stretch the Wii’s hardware, and the unique, rhythm-shooter style of gameplay made clever (if subtle) use of the system’s motion controls. But there’s no denying that Bit.Trip Beat was hard–really, really hard. Thankfully, the brief duration and suitably low price point made sure that its vindictive difficulty level didn’t wear out its welcome. Now Bit.Trip Core is right around the corner, another charming but thoroughly difficult shooter in this newfound series that will test the limits of your love for old-school gameplay.

If all this sounds a little confusing, check out this gameplay video.

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