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'Guitar Hero' starts battle of the bands


May 22, 2008 Activision is adding drums, bass guitar and microphone to its popular "Guitar Hero" video game, a move aimed at winning away fans of MTV's rival musical title "Rock Band." The game will feature songs from bands such as Van Halen, the Eagles, Linkin Park and Sublime, with every song being an original master track, unlike past games where many of the songs were cover versions. Due in the fall, the game will mark a new direction for the "Guitar Hero" franchise, in which players push colored buttons on a plastic guitar-shaped controller to match notes on the screen.

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