'Rock Band' hits high note with Stratocaster
Fender icon raises stakes in guitar gaming.
It's hard to imagine anything that could be more popular than Guitar Hero, but this could be what tips the scales: a guitar controller modeled after the legendary Fender Stratocaster.
Rock Band--the upcoming Harmonix release that will add bass, drums and vocals to the whole guitar game genre--will feature a licensed Stratocaster controller that, for our money, looks close enough to the real thing. "Like other Guitar Hero controllers, it has colored buttons on the neck and features a pickup selector and three volume knobs like a true Strat does," CrunchGear reports.
This restores at least part of our faith in Fender, as well as human nature in general. But we may never fully recover from its descension into Hello Kitty hell.