Initially launched on the Meta Quest, Unplugged: Air Guitar is a rhythm recreation the place you, nicely, play an air guitar. You strum with one hand and transfer the opposite to completely different elements of the neck in keeping with a observe chart much like video games like Rock Band or Guitar Hero.
With a core observe checklist of 20 plus tracks from throughout the historical past of rock music and one other 20 tracks unlocked alongside the best way, the sport gives a pleasant, various checklist of tunes. Nonetheless, whereas the marketing campaign mode doles the tracks out slowly, it does so with no sense of cohesion. All the tracks are grouped into tiers with seemingly no actual rhyme or purpose, solely serving as an impediment to unlocking the subsequent admittedly spectacular venues. We did encounter some points with the development the place we might miss out on essential tutorials, so issues can feels a bit slapdash in locations.
This tutorials are important, too, as they’re anchored by “Satchel”, the guitarist of Metal Panther, and dish out essential data at tempo. The primary impression of those is cringe-inducing, ridiculing “nerds” in what seems like a really outdated skit, however as you go alongside, the movies get progressively cheesier and genuinely humorous. Plus, they educate you the sport’s strong and exact mechanics.
To play, you maintain down completely different numbers of buttons in your PSVR2 Sense Controllers to approximate notes – you’ll even be tilting the guitar at completely different angles on increased difficulties – all whereas the sport’s spectacular monitoring is put to make use of. Strumming patterns approximate actual life in a means even Rock Band doesn’t, and fretting on the neck is nice, because it’s in a position to differentiate between very slight variations in hand placement in your guitar. This precision leaves plenty of room for mastery.
Consequently, the sport subscribes to the “straightforward to play however tough to grasp” cliché, and gives sufficient replay worth due to its various observe checklist that it is value sticking with over many classes.
