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guitar tuner Rocksmith has the potential to create hundreds of thousands of new guitar players. On the surface it may look like a Guitar Hero or Rock Band knock-off, but the simple act of using a real guitar is only the slightest feature that sets this game apart. In my hands-on time with Rocksmith, I felt like I was 14 again, taking guitar lessons for the first time. But after about 30 seconds into Nirvana’s In Bloom, the game recognized that I could play the basics and it slowly upped the difficulty. In no time at all I felt like I was ready to go on tour – a fitting notion considering I happened to be on a tour bus that had been converted into a demo area.

This Adaptive Difficulty, as Ubisoft calls it, listens to how well you are playing and adapts the difficulty on the fly. If you miss too many notes, the game becomes slightly easier. But if you are hitting all the right notes, or at least a majority of them, the song progressively adds more and more notes to the equation. This all happens during the actual song and your difficulty meter spans throughout your career. As you follow your journey in Rocksmith you gain points that draw more crowds, land you some encores, and of course net you that epic gear and guitars.

The game features 50 songs (plus an additional 20 available via DLC at launch). Completing certain thresholds throughout each song and your career will land you gear like pedals, amps, and other effects to tweak your sound. For those of us that love to mod our pedals and amps, or even the placement of mikes on our amps, Rocksmith allows you to truly control your sound. Not only can you decide which effects to use, but you can tweak your effects like you would a normal pedal or amp. Tweaking your effects creates an endless sandbox for your experiments in sound. Of course, the game comes equipped with plenty of pre-set tones. There’s even a built-in guitar tuner; in fact, you have to tune your guitar at the start of each song, further demonstrating how Rocksmith is fundamentally like having your very own video game guitar teacher.

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