Despite the disappointing sales figures of Guitar Hero Live, it appears as if Activision isn't done with its long-running rhythm game franchise just yet. The publisher has just announced that it is currently working on a brand new Guitar Hero game that's centred around the (completely real) dog-fronted Death Metal band, Caninus.
Aptly-titled Guitar Hero: Caninus, this game will eschew the more bombastic full-motion video setpieces from the previous instalment in the franchise, and will instead feature backdrops that consist almost entirely of a singular clip of a husky that wouldn't look out of place in an Immortal music video rolling around in a snowy forest for several minutes on end. While this may be seen as a severe cost-cutting measure, I can't help but admire Activision's attention to detail in this case, as almost every Metal music video takes place in either the snow, a forest, or a snowy forest anyway.
According to Activision, some in-game backdrops will also contain shots of the aforementioned husky sniffing another dog's butt. Sadly, the publisher has admitted that this artistic decision inevitably led to the game's age rating being significantly increased in Australia due to the perceived sexual nature of the imagery.
Oddly enough, while it will technically be possible to play the complete Caninus discography in this upcoming instalment in the popular Guitar Hero franchise, Activision has confirmed that the track 'No Dogs, No Masters' will only be available if you pre-order the game from Petco. This does, quite unfortunately, mean that anyone who resides in a country that doesn't have any Petco stores will be left unable to play this track in their copy of the game.
Activision has also announced that, by using a premium in-game currency that you can obtain through microtransactions, you'll also be able to play additional songs such as 'The Hound' by Vulture Industries, Mastodon's 'The Wolf is Loose,' 'Born For Battle (Black Dog Of Brocéliande)' by Grand Magus, as well as several tracks by the parrot-fronted Metal band, Hatebeak, in order to cater to the terrible human beings who are tired of the game's dog motif.
Guitar Hero: Caninus will hit store shelves sometime next year for the Nintendo Switch, Wii, GameCube, Nintendo 64, SNES, NES, 3DS, DS, the now-defunct DSi Shop, Game Boy Advance, Virtual Boy, Game Boy, Color TV-Game, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Xbox, PS4, PS3, PS2, PS1, PSP, Bandai WonderSwan, PC (Windows, macOS, Linux, IBM-compatible DOS systems), Atari 2600, Tiger Electronics Game.com, Sega Dreamcast, Saturn, Genesis (or Mega Drive, if you're European), Mattel HyperScan, iOS, Android, BlackBerry 10, the shitty Java-based OS that your feature phone from 2004 used, OTON X, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Apple Pippin, Android TV, Android Wear, Pebble, Ouya, Philips CD-i, Neo Geo X, Tizen, Samsung Family Hub smart refrigerator, Nokia N-Gage, Firefox OS, Chrome OS, Coleco Chameleon, and just about any other platform that isn't the Wii U or PlayStation Vita.
The plastic guitar controllers required to play Guitar Hero: Caninus will not be cross-platform compatible. Likewise, this game will not be compatible with controllers used in previous instalments of the Guitar Hero franchise. Enjoy the inevitability of throwing even more guitar controllers on to that large and dusty pile of them that you've accrued over the years, I guess.
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