Summary: Parents need to know that Band Hero is a music game with more family-friendly content compared to the songs found in the harder-edged Guitar Hero and DJ Hero games.
Excerpt: Band Hero might as well be called Guitar Hero 5: Pop Edition. That's not a slight on the game Activision has put together, seeing as what you get in Band Hero is a...
Pros: Lots of music for younger gamers, It's more Guitar Hero
Cons: Feels more like an expansion for Guitar Hero, It's not all for younger gamers
Excerpt: The Guitar Hero franchise has now well and truly saturated the market, with no less then five Guitar Hero instalments, plus various offshoots like Guitar Hero: Metallica.
Summary: With Band Hero, you can come together with family and friends to ascend the virtual stage and rise to fame, bringing you a new genre of music focused on today’s hottest
Excerpt: The music snob in me wants to Fry Band Hero . He wants to roll Activision's new teenybopper twist on Guitar Hero in panko and dip the damn thing in a vat of boiling...
Excerpt: Band Hero is Guitar Hero 5 in sparkly, tween-friendly dressings. You'll get every basic mode and option from the Wii version of Guitar Hero 5 , including the pretty fun...
Pros: ...You enjoy rocking out to Top 40s...Rocking is something better when the whole family can do it...You want to play Guitar Hero, but need your Hilary Duff.
Cons: ...You don't like your game to be an ad in disguise...You think Casey Casem (just dated myself) is a pox...You're just done with the music game genre.
Excerpt: Love music games but want something a little less, well ROCK than Rock Band and Guitar Hero? Welcome to Band Hero (cause Pop Hero sounds funny), where most of the songs...