Keyboard parts playable with five-button guitar controllers.
Harmonix, the world's premier music video game developer, and MTV Games, a part of Viacom's MTV Networks, today announced that a demo for Rock Band 3, the next generation in the ultimate social and interactive music gaming platform, is now available for PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system and the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.
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Since our brief glimpses at E3, we've managed to pick up Rock Band 3's new Pro guitars a few times -- both live on the Engadget Show and otherwise -- and have gotten a better feel for how both the Squier Stratocaster (a.k.a. the "real guitar") and Mad Catz's 102-buttoned Fender Mustang replica play. We'll save the in-depth coverage for the final review, but what follows is two separate impressions coming from two different perspectives: one from Ross Miller, a former guitar instructor with 12 years playing experience, and one from Sean Hollister, a Guitar Hero player with no musical background whatsoever. Head on after the break for our full impressions.
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