Unique Guitar Hero writer RedOctane has been revived, and the brand new model of the studio is outwardly already laborious at work on a model new rhythm recreation.
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 quite a lot of Guitar Hero titles whereas employed at Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock developer Neversoft.
The announcement additionally says that the newly-revived RedOctane “contains creators and builders who helped create and scale Guitar Hero and DJ Hero practically 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 can convey “deep heritage and perception” into RedOctane’s “future path”.
Ebejer says that RedOctane is at the moment working to ship “the subsequent evolution in rhythm gaming”. In an accompanying weblog put up, RedOctane’s Lee Guinchard says the undertaking “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 crew, a studio that creates trendy rhythm recreation peripherals for old-school Guitar Hero video games, in addition to the likes of Fortnite Competition and Clone Hero.
It isn’t fully clear whether or not RedOctane’s new recreation will make the most of certainly one of these peripherals (or, certainly, whether or not it’s going to include a completely new piece of {hardware}), however given Guinchard and firm’s experience, it could 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 at the least two events over the past ten years or so.
