Guitar Hero 3 = online multiplayer
by Nick Doerr 
{ Apr 16th 2007 at 1:00PM }
Red Octane's boss Kai Huang had an interview with Pro-G recently that hasn't yet been released. Whoop-de-doo, right? Wrong. In the interview, it seems Huang went ahead and confirmed the dream of many rockers who were too embarassed to take their show on the road... or in front of friends: online multiplayer with Guitar Hero 3. Yes, you can now show off your mad skillz without showing off your crazy drooling problem you get whilst playing that Black Sabbath solo.We don't know exactly what the online multiplayer feature offers, but if it's more than just a leaderboard, we'd be pumped. Sure, lag would seem to be a problem unless the whole song is pre-loaded before the multiplayer gets underway or something (thank you, PS3 hard drive?), but it could just be a score comparison between two players. This is sort of a test run for the inevitable multiplayer bound for the gigantic ambition known as Rock Band. What do you think this multiplayer will consist of?
[via Joystiq]
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madgunde @ Apr 16th 2007 2:26PM
One word: jamming. What if each player can play two different guitar tracks on the same song for bands that had multiple guitar players? Either that or the two people both play the exact track and at the end it compares your performances. There could even be a battle of the guitarists type elimination tournament, where the best of the two moves on to the next round.
Could see that being pretty cool.
John Ericson @ Apr 16th 2007 7:45PM
Lag is most commonly caused by network latencies. Whether pre-loading the song can fix the issue is questionable, and in that case I think you would pre-load it to the RAM memory rather then the harddrive.