Topic: Mii Freestyle Mode Revealed for Guitar Hero: World Tour

[Nick DiMola]

This Wii exclusive mode will also feature air guitar and drums by using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=16582

 Activision announced yesterday during the Leipzig Games Conference in Germany that the Wii version of the upcoming Guitar Hero: World Tour will include the exclusive Mii Freestyle mode.    

Mii Freestyle mode allows players to use their custom made Miis in the game along with their Wii Remote and Nunchuk to play air guitar and drums.

[Morari]

I love it! The air guitar and drums idea is nice as an option. Sadly, it sounds like Rock Revolution will use that method exclusively.

The Mii integration is fairly nifty as well, though I don't see why this should necessarily be an altogether different mode.

[nickmitch]

Miis, eh? Take that, Wii Music!

[KDR_11k]

What's with the stupid idea to limit Miis to one game mode?

[DAaaMan64]

Why can't some one simulate mii but add their own style yet? 

Don't get me wrong though. Go Guitar Hero!

[KDR_11k]

Not sure that'd work, people designed their Miis to approximate their looks with the way the parts looked, changing them could ruin someone's likeness. I think the bigger problem is that developers insist to create their own visual style that doesn't mesh with the Miis and then they drop the Miis instead of their own style.

[DAaaMan64]

Why wouldn't it work? They wouldn't have to be perfect or anything, just enough that people got the idea.  If they didn't want to have to implement so many styles they could always mesh together styles that looked to similar.

[planetidiot]

Wait, 3rd parties can use Miis now?  When did that start?   

It would be much cooler if they would import the basic features of your Mii to make a custom character stylized for the game.  They could take hair color, height, etc of your Mii and use them to select similar attributes for a custom character. 

This is what I'd assumed they'd be doing with Mii's from the beginning.

[Morari]

Thankfully, the actual character creator is entirely separate in Guitar Hero: World Tour. Just another one of those things that couldn't be done in Rock Band due to "technical limitations".

[NWR_pap64]

Miis, eh? Take that, Wii Music!

Either this is Activision's way of telling Nintendo that you can have a game like Wii Music as part of a much grander, deeper game like "Guitar Hero", or they didn't get the memo regarding Wii Music.

Either way this is a smart idea on their behalf. The concept behind Rock Band and Guitar Hero just begs for Miis to be used.

[Flames_of_chaos]

Miis, eh? Take that, Wii Music!

Either this is Activision's way of telling Nintendo that you can have a game like Wii Music as part of a much grander, deeper game like "Guitar Hero", or they didn't get the memo regarding Wii Music.

Either way this is a smart idea on their behalf. The concept behind Rock Band and Guitar Hero just begs for Miis to be used.

Well about Wii Music, I doubt Nintendo would want to force people to buy an expensive bundle or overload with yet another proprietary music peripheral. Whenever Nintendo makes a game with a peripheral the game is usually priced at the regular 50 or the most 5 - 10 dollars extra. The sole exception is Wii Fit where it was priced at 90, and I suppose Link's Crossbow Training since that cost 20 dollars with the zapper.

[KDR_11k]

I really think more devs need to swallow their pride and let Miis take the main role instead of making them limited to a bonus mode or something. Yes, even Animal Crossing should have been redesigned to use Miis for everything.

[LuigiHann]

I agree with DAaaMan64. There's a lot of missed opportunity when companies just plop incongruous Mii heads into games. I have a feeling, though, that it's Nintendo dictating that the Miis have to look like Miis.

[KDR_11k]

I think it's not a loss of potential. Remember, these are carricatures, changing anything about the design would ruin them since there's a good chance the traits that define the Mii are lost!

[Ian Sane]

I really think more devs need to swallow their pride and let Miis take the main role instead of making them limited to a bonus mode or something.

But then wouldn't every game look the same?  I think that would get tiring real quick.  Besides in a lot of games part of the fantasy is being someone you're not.  Sometimes I want to be Ian but sometimes I want to be someone completely different.  Certain games always use different styles that Miis would not look fit in.  In a horror game for example that needs to convey a certain atmosphere Miis would look totally stupid.  Hell any game that tries for a serious tone would look stupid with Miis.

[Nick DiMola]

I'd love to see someone take the information from the Mii use its characteristics to build a more realistic looking character to use in games. Then it is kind of like using your Mii translated to match the style of that particular game.

I do like seeing the Miis in games just the way they are though, and I am still saddened that we didn't see a Mii fighter in Brawl.