Punching is cool, however what if punching was instigated by musical notes as a substitute? Properly, developer Modus Studios appreciated that concept, and the result’s God of Rock, a combating sport that pits rival musicians in opposition to each other.
Mechanically, God of Rock is strong. Whereas it is a combating sport, the core of the expertise depends on observe charts a la Rock Band, or, most overtly, the Persona rhythm video games. Quite than conventional punches and kicks, you need to hit notes on a chart to the beat of the track. The longer the track goes and not using a winner, the extra advanced the observe charts get. If you happen to’re not swift, the charts can get completely psychological. Sadly, the large soundtrack of 40 songs does blur collectively a bit, and it’s virtually not possible to differentiate one monitor from the opposite.
Curiously, conventional particular strikes and breakers are within the sport. Relying on which of the colourful, distinctive characters you decide, your moveset will differ drastically. Sadly, given how a lot of your consideration is demanded by the observe chart, it’s onerous to actually recognize every of the 12 character designs, lots 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 onerous to maintain monitor of initially, as you turn into extra able to multi-tasking you’ll discover that most of the strikes supply wild mechanical variance. Some specials heal, some require charge-ups, others drop additional notes onto your opponent’s chart that may’t be eliminated, and so forth. They add a very attention-grabbing component of technique to the expertise that calls upon what you’d anticipate from the best stage of play within the likes of Road Fighter or Mortal Kombat.
Whereas the AI will quickly discover you an excessive amount of to deal with, even at larger difficulties, the web 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 track in the event you get too cocky. So long as the sport can nurture and keep a participant base there needs to be ample purpose to maintain coming again to God of Rock time and time once more.
