Column: Guitar games are coming around

I'm a guitar player.

Not a great one, mind you, but I dabble. I can string some chords together and I can play quite a few songs.

Anyway, playing guitar is one reason I've never been able to get into the “Guitar Hero” or “Rock Band” video games.

I'm not jumping on the games, it's just hard for me to play because it's not much like playing a guitar at all. Playing chords isn't exactly right. Sometimes the “notes” in the game don't match up with the actual notes on the game

Whatever. It's still fun to play “Rock Band” with friends from time to time. But now (finally) the games are starting to turn the gameplay experience into something a little more real. And I'm all for that.

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