Daft Punk is Playing at My House

This whole 'Hero' series is abit weird for me. Is it ok to like it? My flatmate had Gutar Hero and I must admit that drunkenly strumming out to Bloc Party's Helicopter and hearing the fake crowd go nuts for me was pretty sweet.

But then South Park ripped it to pieces and suddenly it wasn't so cool to be standing in the lounge rocking out with a plastic gutar, thinking that the rest of the party thought your talented.

Now DJ Hero is about to hit the market and I'm feeling even more dubious about this version than its predecessor . I guess it is an interesting idea, and Activision have got some good DJ's/ producers onboard, but I feel that the game play doesn't correlate to actual DJing (i.e the green, red and blue buttons).

According to the all-knowing Wikipedia the game play goes something like this:::

Notes will travel in an arc across a spinning record on screen, and the player will hold down one of the 3 stream buttons to play notes; two buttons reflect the two songs used in that particular mix, and the third represents samples to add to the mix which can be adjusted with the effects dial.

The player must also constantly adjust the crossfader to match onscreen symbols. Certain tracks will be shown on screen as a series of up or down arrow, representing scratching sections, requiring the player to turn the turntable in the direction of the arrows while holding down the button to score points.
"Euphoria" is equivalent to Guitar Hero's Star Power, collected by successfully completing specific phrases in the song mix, and can be released by pressing the Euphoria button, doubling the player's current multiplier.

There is also a "Rewind" meter that builds through consistent successful playing, and once full, allows the player to rewind the song to fix errors in their performance. The player must continue to perform well or their performance meter will drop and they will fail the song.

- Got it?

- Sweet, now your pretty much Daft Punk..

In fact, and quite shockingly you can 'mix' as Daft Punk , with both Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo being playable characters. I just hope they are doing this as abit of a hype-gen for a possible new album (pleeease!).

Aswell as Daft Punk, there is material from N.A.S.A., Queen, Justice, DJ Yoda, DJ AM, Grandmaster Flash, Dizzee Rascal, DJ Shadow and David Bowie.

DJ Hero will be out in late October.

Daft Punk DJ Hero tracklisting:
Daft Punk "Around the World" vs. Young MC "Bust A Move"
Daft Punk "Da Funk" vs. N.A.S.A. "Strange Enough ft. Karen O, ODB and Fatlip"

Daft Punk "Da Funk" vs. Queen "Another One Bites the Dust"

Daft Punk "Robot Rock" vs. Hashim "Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)" – Produced and mixed by The Scratch Perverts

Daft Punk "Robot Rock" vs. Queen "We Will Rock You"

Daft Punk "Short Circuit" vs. Boogie Down Productions "Jack Of Spades"

Daft Punk "Technologic" vs. Gary Numan "Cars"

Daft Punk "Television Rules The Nation" vs. No Doubt "Hella Good"