Punching is cool, however what if punching was instigated by musical notes as a substitute? Effectively, developer Modus Studios favored that concept, and the result’s God of Rock, a preventing recreation that pits rival musicians towards each other.
Mechanically, God of Rock is stable. Whereas it is a preventing recreation, the core of the expertise depends on word charts a la Rock Band, or, most overtly, the Persona rhythm video games. Relatively than conventional punches and kicks, it’s important to hit notes on a chart to the beat of the tune. The longer the tune goes and not using a winner, the extra advanced the word charts get. In case you’re not swift, the charts can get completely psychological. Sadly, the massive soundtrack of 40 songs does blur collectively a bit, and it’s nearly not possible to tell apart one observe from the opposite.
Curiously, conventional particular strikes and breakers are within the recreation. Relying on which of the colourful, distinctive characters you decide, your moveset will differ vastly. Sadly, given how a lot of your consideration is demanded by the word chart, it’s laborious to essentially respect every of the 12 character designs, a lot of that are influenced by well-known musicians like Bowie or Elvis.
That is thanks partly to the particular strikes that we talked about. Whereas laborious to maintain observe of initially, as you change into extra able to multi-tasking you’ll discover that lots of the strikes provide wild mechanical variance. Some specials heal, some require charge-ups, others drop further notes onto your opponent’s chart that may’t be eliminated, and so forth. They add a extremely attention-grabbing component of technique to the expertise that calls upon what you’d anticipate from the best degree of play within the likes of Avenue Fighter or Mortal Kombat.
Whereas the AI will quickly discover you an excessive amount of to deal with, even at increased difficulties, the net element is the place the specials actually shine. The technique of selecting when to fit your assaults in turns into paramount. It’s straightforward to lose the rhythm of the tune in case you get too cocky. So long as the sport can nurture and preserve a participant base there needs to be ample cause to maintain coming again to God of Rock time and time once more.
