Guitar Hero: Van Halen, Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero, DJ Hero Set For Release This Fall

Activision Blizzard is releasing a total of four new music-based video games later this year. We had already guessed that DJ Hero, Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero were on their way, but now the company has also confirmed the existence of Guitar Hero: Van Halen to videogame blog Joystiq.

Guitar Hero: Van Halen will feature some of Van Halen’s greatest hits as well as music from Queen, Weezer, Blink-182, The Offspring and Queens of the Stone Age. Also, the first screens of the DJ Hero peripheral have been revealed. It’s a turntable controller, with three buttons to press while spinning a “record”, check out the photos after the cut:

DJ Hero will expand gaming to fans of genres that don’t appear in Activision’s other titles, like hip-hop, R&B, Motown, electronica, and dance music.

Guitar Hero 5 will have an updated selection of songs, and give players “the ability to drop in and out of songs and change band members, instruments and difficulty levels on the fly.” Band Hero, with an E10 rating, appears to be the family friendly version of Guitar Hero. Like Rock Band, the game will include guitar, drums, bass and microphone.

“Guitar Hero has made music social again and has become one of the most popular ways to experience music,” said Dan Rosensweig, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Guitar Hero franchise. “Today’s fans enjoy a variety of music and are looking for more ways to engage with their favorite songs, artists and fellow fans. These games will let them listen, participate and socialize with music in ways they have never been able to before.”

Activision has already had huge success with their franchise, having surpassed the $1 billion mark in sales. Now they looking to grow their fan base with no less than four new titles, spanning genres and ages. Soon, stores will be so packed with music video games and plastic peripherals that we won’t be able to tell the difference between a music store and a video game store!

With so many choices, which Activision title are you most interested in? Will you get them all, or just go and buy a real instrument?

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Source: Kotaku, Joystiq