Authentic Guitar Hero writer RedOctane has been revived, and the brand new model of the studio is outwardly already arduous at work on a model new rhythm sport.
As revealed on the studio’s web site, the brand new model of RedOctane can be helmed by Simon Ebejer, who labored as manufacturing director on a variety of Guitar Hero titles whereas employed at Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock developer Neversoft.
The announcement additionally says that the newly-revived RedOctane “consists of creators and builders who helped create and scale Guitar Hero and DJ Hero almost 20 years in the past”, and that newer builders and creatives from the rhythm gaming area are additionally becoming a member of the studio.
Charles and Kai Huang, the brothers who initially began RedOctane again within the 2000s, will “be part of a particular advisory board” for the revived iteration of the studio, which is able to convey “deep heritage and perception” into RedOctane’s “future course”.
Ebejer says that RedOctane is at present working to ship “the following evolution in rhythm gaming”. In an accompanying weblog put up, RedOctane’s Lee Guinchard says the challenge “will not be Guitar Hero, DJ Hero, Guitar Freaks or Rock Band”, however “one thing new”.
Guinchard, together with a number of different staffers becoming a member of the ranks of the brand new RedOctane, is a part of the CRKD staff, a studio that creates trendy rhythm sport peripherals for old-school Guitar Hero video games, in addition to the likes of Fortnite Pageant and Clone Hero.
It isn’t fully clear whether or not RedOctane’s new sport will make the most of considered one of these peripherals (or, certainly, whether or not it will include a wholly new piece of {hardware}), however given Guinchard and firm’s experience, it might appear odd if that wasn’t the case.
No matter RedOctane creates, let’s hope it makes extra of a splash than Activision’s personal makes an attempt to revive the Guitar Hero franchise, which have fallen flat on a minimum of two events over the past ten years or so.
