The tutorials more than adequately prepare you to play the first few sets on Medium difficulty with ease, with the difficulty ramping up gradually as you progress. That being said, the game does a great job of easing players into the actions required by offering both a basic and advanced tutorial right at the offset. You’ll need to spend a decent amount of time getting used to the controller in order to get used to the way the game controls. This is largely due to the fact that DJ’ing is a tad bit more complex and abstract than the actions required to play in Guitar Hero or Rock Band. Obviously, DJ Hero isn’t quite as easy to pick up and play as it’s cohorts in the Music/Rhythm game genre.
It should also be noted that a second player can plug in a guitar controller and play the guitar portions of several songs. As you play, you’ll also need to cut the crossfader back and forth to switch between audio tracks. The main focus of the gameplay is pressing the three buttons on the record and scratching it back and forth when the on-screen notes indicate. The character models for the DJs however, are exceptional, whether it is one of the basic starter characters such as a large man in a luchadore mask, to the members of Daft Punk working the turntables looking like their robot selves.įor control, DJ hero utilizes a wireless turntable controller that features a record with three buttons, a crossfader, a “Euphoria” button (The DJ hero equivalent to Rock Band’s “overdrive” and Guitar Hero’s “star power”) and an effects dial. They instead opted to show your DJ working the turntables and to have the camera pan out for the occasional crowd shot. The developers didn’t go all out in creating a giant spectacle for the background visuals, nor did they need to. Visually, DJ hero sticks to the norm of the genre. I’d even go as far to say that many of them could easily stand alone outside the game. As I said above though, for the most part the mash-ups are pretty solid. However, now and again they can come off as painfully cheesy, such as a track where the classic Foreigner song, “Jukebox Hero” is remade to be about DJ’ing, creatively named “DJ Hero”. For the most part the mash-ups work perfectly, such as a particular track that mashes up Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” with “Feel Good Inc.” by the Gorillaz. You’ll never find yourself playing just one song on it’s own, since every song is a mash-up of two different songs, many times from two completely different genres. The soundtrack in DJ Hero is where it truly shines, spanning many genres and eras.
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