The rhythm gaming genre has come a long way, hasn’t it? From
the early days of pressing buttons like in Parappa the Rapper, to the days of
plastic instruments in Guitar Hero and Rock Band, all the way up to the most
recent craze of actually, physically dancing to the music like in Just Dance
and Dance Central, the rhythm/music genre is a constantly changing beast. Yet
still, there’s always been one company constantly pushing that genre forward
and trying to top themselves each and every time a new game is released and
that company is Harmonix.
Harmonix singled-handedly changed the entire genre several
times over with each new release. Not only did they introduce the world to
Guitar Hero, but they took that idea one step forward with the Rock Band games
and changed the dancing sub-genre with Dance Central for use with the X-Box 360’s
Kinect. Harmonix knows their music games and they want you to know it. But,
with their latest release, it seems Harmonix isn’t as concerned with pushing
the genre forward as it is with bringing it back to basics. Enter their newest
addition to their library of music gaming epics; Rock Band Blitz.
