Harmonix Working On Secret Title

Play.tm had an interview with Rock Band 2’s lead designer, Dan Teasdale of Harmonix, who mentioned that he is working on a new title, and it’s not the recently announced game featuring the Beatles.

“I’m working on another new project that I can’t tell you about yet.” Teasdale told Play.tm

Teasdale also talks about how Harmonix had initially wanted to have a music creation tool in Rock Band 2 and that they hope to have it in their future game saying they are “going to be exploring stuff like that in the future”.

One thing that gamers can get excited about is the hint that unlike the Guitar Hero World Tour music studio, if Harmonix releases one in an upcoming game it may feature the ability to record lyrics.

“The whole thing for us, our reason for making games, is to give people the experience of creating music. I think that expressing… player expressivity is definitely something that we’re going to be focussing on in the future. But we want to do it properly, we don’t want to go out half-assed.

“We want lyrics… we don’t want just another bullet on the back of the box. We want it to add something meaningful, not just to pad the game, but add something to everything people do in the game.”

Activision did not include the ability to record lyrics in Guitar Hero World Tour due to ‘copyright issues’, but music game fans will know that such a response might just be kotowing to the record labels because ‘covers’ of songs are legal.

Even the music game Lips has the ability to load mp3 files into the game to sing along to.

Is this announcement of a music creation tool in an upcoming Harmonix game too late?  Has Guitar Hero World Tour cornered the market, or do you think Harmonix can bring it and do it right?

Sources:
Play.tm - Harmonix Working On Additional, Secret Title
Play.tm - Harmonix Consider User Generated Content

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