While I love fake plastic rock in all its forms, I’ve been sort of underwhelmed with Guitar Hero: World Tour. I dutifully bought the full band kit on launch day, of course, and it’s a solid fake plastic rock game, certainly a worthy way to bring the Guitar Hero series into the full band experience. [...]

I’ll admit, I’m not the biggest Metallica fan. But as a fan of the fake plastic rock genre I did pre-order Guitar Hero: Metallica. And now I’m extra glad I did — check out this awesome motion capture promo video:

Part of my fear was that this would be another half-hearted Guitar Hero: Aerosmith cash in. [...]

Here’s the most primitive version of fake plastic rock to date: the Champion of Guitars text-based adventure! At the risk of revealing spoilers, here’s how my adventure went:

Champion of Guitars
An Interactive Fiction by Bill Meltsner
Release 1 / Serial number 090126 / Inform 7 build 5J39 (I6/v6.31 lib 6/11N)

Cantina
The current management of this rather seedy [...]