Rocksmith 2014 Edition - Playstation 3 (Cable Included)

This is perhaps one of the greatest games I have ever purchased. First off, you have to have a guitar with electric input/output capabilities (electric, acoustic electric or bass). You also will need to make sure you have the cable that will go with your guitar to the input of whatever system you are playing on. So be sure to get the version of this game with the cable otherwise it will not work. So, in short, this is an amazing piece of technology. It allows you to use a REAL guitar/bass to “play” this game and help teach you how to play that instrument. The Rocksmith 60 day challenge is playing for atleast one hour per day for 60 days. Try it, it is amazing. If you want more details then please read the following which is based on my first 1-2 hours of gameplay. So first off is the song mode, which can also be broken up into various segments as well. You start by picking one of the many songs already pre-loaded with the game. There are also many more songs and song packs that can be purchased to add to the line-up, but keep in mind they are some what pricey, ranging from about $3 per song and anywhere between $8 to $12 for a pack of songs that may include between 3-6 songs depending on which pack you purchase. But for this review I will start with the very first song on the list which is the one I went with which was "R U Mine" by the Arctic Monkeys. Right off the bat this game made me happy because I was hearing the actual song from the actual band, not some generic group of people covering the song. When you first start up Rocksmith, it will ask you a couple of questions to get a general idea of where you should start out at. I chose all of the beginner’s options as I really do not know much about playing guitar. So, because of these options, when I started to play that first song, it was extremely easy with only playing one or two notes on only one string. But, that is ok, because what this game does is it assess how well you are doing and determines how to g oabout getting you to improve. After playing this first song, the next suggestion to me was another mode within called Riff Repeater. In this mode, it had me starting off on a fraction of one of the main riffs in that song, slowed to about 75% speed and only one note every now and then. As I completed the riff correctly with no mistakes, it would start over, but this time add a few more notes into, slowly building me up into being able to learn the entire riff at full speed. I made it to about 43% difficulty before I had to stop! The next mode I tried out was the Guitarcade, which is a section. This mode is incredible. There are about 18 different mini games to be played with each one focusing on a specific technique. For instance, the first one I played is called Star Chords (yes, very similar in name to Star Wars and you will see why). In this particular game you are a fighter pilot in space. Enemy ships will come in to attack you. You have to shoot them by playing the appropriate chord. Take too long and they shoot you instead, taking away some of your health. Lose all of your health and the game is over. Once the game is over you will be given your final score based on how well you performed and be given the option to post your score to the leaderboards as well if you like to compete. Each game also comes with a series of objectives to be completed in the game. Completing these objectives will allow you to gain stars, and with enough stars, you level up. Two other game modes that are available are lesson mode and session mode. Lesson mode is just that. Various lessons on different aspects of guitar playing. Session mode is very open but also allows for a lot of detail. In session mode, you are free to play however you want to, just jump in and start going to town and playing around. What is unique about this mode though is the fact that you are capable of adding accompanying instruments to back you up, drums, bass and even other guitars. You get to control every aspect of this “band” and it follows your lead. When you play a certain way, the instruments you have set in will pick up on how you are playing and try to match your playing style as best as it can to give it the sound of a full on band! Overall, this is completely amazing. Quite easily the best thing I will have ever purchased! I had to make myself stop playing but could have easily kept going for hours longer. Looking forward to continuing my experience with this product and will be highly recommending this to anyone and everyone I come across. Thank you for reading this and I hop this has helped your decision.

I have played self taught guitar on and off since i was 13 when i got my first acoustic. People would tell me i could play but i always felt like without lessons i wouldn't ever be more than barre chords and power chords and never really knew more than a handful of real chords and never really knew any complete songs, solos and all. Sitting down and working out solos by ear can be quite a task and i never really had much confidence I was playing it right. So now at 45 yrs of age i decided to get serious about learning how to really play. Last year I went out and bought new guitar/amp. Started checking out YouTube videos and learning some but it still seemed slow and kinda boring. Most of the people on YouTube do too much talking and not enough playing/teaching and to much starting and stopping. I didn't feel like i was advancing like i wanted. Then i stumbled across Rocksmith 2014 in the PS3 online store one night while looking for games. Found out i needed to buy the bundle with cable, came here, read all the reviews, went to other places on the Internet read all the reviews, got pumped up, came back here, bought it. Delivers super quick, hook up, plug in, tune up and in less than a week i am playing easy songs like blitzkrieg bop lead guitar at 100% even with master mode on. Then about 2 weeks in I am at 100% lead on pour some sugar on me with solos at 100%. Now 2 months in I have bought a bass and I am playing bass at 100% on many songs. This is simply AMAZING GUITAR TEACHING SOFTWARE!!! I am retaining what i am learning, my skills have massively improved, i am playing songs, without the game running, all the way through. Between all the games in guitarcade to help learn chords and scales, all the lessons, completing missions, playing all the downloaded song add-ons, playing all the challenges like score attack i usually play around 2 or 3 hours a week night after work and on the weekends if i am not busy i have been staying up all night playing. I can't get enough and its a blast. Nothing boring here. And now my 10yr old grandson shows interest in guitar from when he stayed with us last year. I gave him my old elec guitar and amp at the end of last year but the DVDs i got him to learn from are killing him. Well he's back this year and he loves it, he has already started to catch on in 1 day. So i am back to order him his cable and game and now i am even happier because the PS3 version is $20 cheaper than when i bought it 2 months ago and it teaches him everything i can not teach him in the month he will be here with lessons and games. If you have never played, played forever, wanted to play but don't want the expense and schedule of lessons, learn at your own pace, this is the way to go. As you progress so does the game, it will start you out nice and slow so you get the feel, recommend things to speed improvement with hints and tips. I started it out on beginner and I want to say it could tell i knew a little so it started to step up the notes, and then chords. The more you get right the more it throws at you. It has also helped me clean up some of my bad habits. I woulda highly recommend this product to anyone who plays or wants to play guitar. 6 out of 5 stars. Worth every penny. GET IT AND ROCK OUT!!!

I gotta say, I didn't expect much from this game, considering I didn't know how to play guitar, but was learning violin and was very interested in learning guitar, so I could do some chords and things to support my friends when they were short a guitarist (I uh-... I honestly wasn't sure what a "chord" was at the time I considered purchasing this game...). I spent maybe a week just trying to figure out the basic mechanics, and then a month playing the "Guitarcade" games simply to learn to associate the colors with the right strings and get used to where I need to place my hands. Now I've been at it for almost 6 months and have mastered Next Girl by The Black Keys (mastered as in, can play from memory, no game needed) and Blitzkrieg Bop by The Ramones, which are both rather simple, I suppose, but hey, I could barely pluck a note without having the strings buzz before... I've been working on Supermassive Black Hole by Muse for a while now and I've gotten pretty good at it, as well. The important thing is... I knew next-to-nothing before getting Rocksmith, and now, in the words of my friend who has been playing guitar since he was like 9... "Dude... you can actually play guitar. It's kinda freaking me out... stop." I call that a victory for Rocksmith! And for those who actually know how to play guitar, you still may be interested in Rocksmith 2014. Whether you want to learn the Rocksmith system so you can learn the songs included, or just want to have some fun playing them with your friends, it's actually quite nice. I have 2 friends who have been playing guitar for many years and both have enjoyed Rocksmith. I actually bought this copy for PS3, for my friend who has been playing for about 9 years, and he's loving it. It was kinda great to kick his butt at a few songs in multiplayer, since he was still learning how the mechanics worked, heh... Now... the reason I bumped a star off is simple. If you have this game and aren't happy with the selection of songs, you can purchase more, individually or in the form of "Song Packs." I tried to figure out exactly how much money you would spend if you purchased every song available, but ended up going to Steam on my computer and checking exactly how much ALL the DLC songs would cost + the price of the game. It... isn't pretty. $59.99 for the Steam version of the game. $9.99 for the "Import Tool" to get your Rocksmith 1 songs from the game that you already own... $100-200 for a cheap electric guitar to play it with. And finally... $1,159.24 for every single piece of DLC. ... I'm assuming, no one is planning on buying every single DLC song, mind you, but that's still... rather disturbing. Honestly, with my wide interest in music styles, I'd probably spend about $200 just to get a decent number of the songs that I like. Then again... my sister took guitar lessons 6 years ago and learned absolutely nothing (she doesn't even remember how to hold the guitar) for the low, low price of... $100 a week, for 6 weeks. I'd say this is a much better method, personally. Other than the uncomfortably-high price paid for DLC Songs and Song Packs, I'd say Rocksmith 2014 is a DEFINITE improvement over the first game, and a beautifully-entertaining way to learn guitar for the first time. Especially if you're quick to learn the mechanics of the game, or have some previous instrument knowledge.

I don't normally write reviews on amazon, but this product works so well and is so much fun that it seems criminal to not recommend it to others in some way. I own multiple guitars and in the past I've taken guitar lessons. Lessons are expensive. More than being expensive, they start extremely slow and it can get frustrating, especially when you're not interested in the music you're practicing. Rocksmith 2014 is the cheapest, most efficient way to learn guitar. The most amazing thing I can say about it is that it works. It works so well. Songs start you off with very low difficulty, and very few notes--a la Guitar Hero. As you hit notes and come to learn the song more notes are added and the difficulty will automatically scale as you're playing. This way you're always kind of struggling with whatever part you're trying to learn, but you're never too far from learning it. The final difficulty is just the exact tablature of the song. The game recognizes the notes you're playing extremely well. I never had a moment where I thought I was playing the song right and the game just wasn't registering it. When you miss a note or hit a wrong note, the game will even indicate on the screen that you're too high on the neck and need to move up a few frets or maybe it will tell you that you're playing the right notes on the wrong string and indicate to move up a string. It's a brilliant system, and the more time you spend with it the faster you'll be learning. This package goes so far beyond that, though. There are tons of minigames (think typing of the dead or streets of rage with guitars) where you'll play an arcade game and have to play scales to progress or chords to kill zombies. It blows me away how much music theory can be learned in this game. The incredible thing is just how little I ever felt like I was learning. It's fun. On top of all that, this game is incredibly fun and rewarding in that same Guitarhero/Rockband way where hitting a note just feels incredible. But you aren't hitting a note on a plastic controller, though. You're playing your real guitar. It's an incredible moment when you 100% a song and realize that you weren't playing a game, you played an actual song. I'll be honest, though: Rocksmith isn't perfect. The singular area in which it could have improved was more starting songs. Maybe I'm spoiled because Rockband would have hundreds of songs out of the gate, and lots of unlockable songs, but the track list doesn't feel as varied as it could be. I was pleasantly surprised to see Minus the Bear and a few songs that I'm quite familiar with given my music game experience, but the tracklist is only a minor disappointment in a stellar guitar teaching tool. There are DLC songs to rectify this, but you'll have to spend money for more songs of course. If you're the kind of person that looks at Rocksmith and thinks "yeah it would be kind of cool to learn guitar," then please look no further. This is the definitive guitar teaching tool. It's going to teach you guitar quicker than anything else, and it'll teach you music theory, how to position your hand, chords, scales and soloing along the way. This is the best way to learn guitar.

For Beginners (like me) this software promises big but is slow to deliver. First off, when I decided to try to learn guitar I have to confess I knew nothing about how to read the notes, play the notes, or even how to get it tuned correctly. My goal was to get RS, a decent starter guitar, a guitar book (for when the kids are occupying the PS3) and dive right in. I bought an Epiphone LP 100 - yes I went Epiphone since that was what is pictured on the RS package. (my review on the Epi LP 100 is also posted). The Epi LP 100 seems to work well with the RS game - tuning is a close match to the Snark tuner. I got a Basix Guitar Method Complete book (by Manus, Alfred publishing) and started with that. I was getting introductory instruction that seemed to match up very well with my complete novice level. I'm a slow learner and the book - of course follows at my own pace. After about 2 weeks on the book, I was feeling pretty good about having some basic skills on the eBG strings. Time to plug in RS and try it out. Yes - long loads and lots of screens before you get to the home page. I was disappointed that RS didn't indicate the need to hook up your PS3 to an external receiver (bypass the tv). Why would you design something that immediately requires more hardware? While I have an external receiver, I don't have the wire to connect to the PS3 (oh well). I tell the system that, yes, I am in fact a Beginner and all it guides me through is tuning. My Epi was in tune before I plugged in, and thankfully the system seemed to agree (other reviewers have had many issues, it seems). It asks if I want to play lead or rhythm guitar - I choose Lead because I don't really know which will be easier for a novice. Then I'm at the main menu and I'm not sure where to go from there. I half expected there to be an AI instructor or at least a guided tour of what to try first. I jumped into the first option - Learn a Song. Huge playlist returns - many songs I've never heard of before. I choose Blitzkrieg Bop (one I actually recognize) and start it up. Since I am a novice and my foray with the book has only introduced me to eBG strings, I was immediately in a scramble to try to figure out how I was supposed to finger a low-E at 5th followed by a A 5th and A 7th (strings on the opposite side of the fretboard). I'm not even sure what notes I'm playing - there's no notation, nor any reference to the notes that you're creating. My son later informed me that the 5th fret E could have been swapped for an open A. I can see if I'm striking the string at the right time, but my fingering is way off. The software did notice me struggling and slowed down the notes I had to contribute, but I was still basically butchering any proper fingering at this point. After the song, the software suggested I do a lesson on shifting - which did talk me through moving up and down the fretboard, but still left out how to properly finger the notes. I had fun attempting to play along with some of the songs, but I also struggled a bit because I could tell I wasn't playing a lot of the notes correctly (misfiring on the frets, mashing more strings than the one I need, getting completely lost on the fingerboard). Basically, I didn't walk away feeling like I'd really learned anything - mimicking is one thing, but really learning how to play is something else. Overall, I'm going to visit Rocksmith on the weekends for some fun with some of the songs I'd like to learn to mimic, but I'll be using my trusty book during the week to learn how to read the actual notes, get the correct fingering figured out, and make sure I'm playing clean notes. I'm hopeful that ones I have learned how to play notes across all of the strings, I'll be better suited to the Rocksmith environment. One additional side note is that you can expand the songs available - picking out ones you may recognize - from the store feature. You're looking at about $3 a song. Sometimes they are bundled into sets of 3 or 5 for $8 or $12 dollars.

OK, I'll put it out there. I am not a musician and I don't have aspiring goals to be in a band. However, I have always loved the sound of the bass guitar and was working on teaching myself bass since about August of this year. For a complete novice, I was OK. But I wanted to try this game for the PS3 after seeing video of it, and my boss purchased it for guitar and loved it, he has been playing for a few years. Anyway, I got it for Christmas and I have to say it is awesome! The first song I was playing was Pour some sugar on me and at first I was thinking, "There is more bass lines in this song than this" then as I was hitting the notes it was giving me consistently, I noticed that more of those missing notes I was hearing, were appearing the screen. I heard it slowed the song down for you until you got it, but it was actually laying out the foundation notes first, and slowly bringing in the fills and harder transitions as the program noticed that I was getting the song. That was pretty awesome. I moved on to Tom Petty for some variety, and because he is one of my personal favs. I was really hitting the song in stride, when all of the sudden it was way out of my league for the transitions. I used the riff repeater and got down the parts that were causing me problems. Now I know that this program cannot take the place of a great personal teacher, but for someone like me who just wants to have fun and play the instrument, it is the most perfect tool I could have asked for. The only thing, is I wish there was some way to select any song you want and covert it Rocksmith. There are a lot of songs on the game, but not all of them are my style of music. It would be awesome if we could get some morphine or even some funky blues, like Robert Randolph. I know it's being nit picky, but if I were to have one dream it would be no limit on the song titles you could choose from. I played around with the session mode, which was fun, but I don't have the experience yet to improvise and my jam sounded pretty bad. But again, it was fun. Some people complain about latency, or having problems tuning. BUt if you follow the instructions that are in box, on thier website, and right there on the start-up screen in the game...you will be fine. For tuning, I found that I had to pluck my strings repeatedly. Like hitting quarter notes, for it to tune properly. If you pluck the string and let it ring, like I do with my home tuner, it doesn't seem to register right. But when I plucked the strings fairly fast, it gave me steady reading and I did some minor tuning adjustments and it was fine. You also have the option to tune to a variety of options. The games I didn't really get into much yet, but I played one. I can really see the value as they will teach you some fretboard fitness and force you to work the strings and frets, and get used to moving. Which is the main thing I need to be become most proficient at.

Where to begin: 1.the in game tuner tunes the guitar flat as compared to all my other electronic tuners and sounds horrible when playing along with in game songs. 2. some lessons and songs require fretting a note on the first fret and the game doesn't recognize the note. The correction arrows come up and tell me to fret below the 1st one! 3. Horrible static in between lessons and songs, have to hold my hand on strings while using controller. 4. time lag between when I strum a note and I hear it on TV. Reviews and advertising don't tell you you need additional hdmi\rca converter cables and sound systems to eliminate it until you buy the game, then it's too late. 5. random pattern to chrod learning. Game doesn't start with open string chords, it jumps around to a7sus chords before you even know what a A major chord is. Also the learn a song songs require you to learn barre chords right away with very little experience. I find it very frustrating. Positives: technique games are fun, that's only reason I rated the second star. All in all, I will use the game on occasion to vary my guitar practice sessions but I won't use it on a regular basis. I still prefer book and video lessons reading real music, note colored boxes on a screen

The setup of this learning "game" is horrible. I know how to play chords, scales, etc and wanted something that would actually teach me real fundamentals, as I've never been to music lessons. First off, the tuner on this thing is grade-a garbage all the way. I have 3 separate tuners, all spec the same tuning, then I use the Rocksmith Tuner and it's telling me I'm tuned sharp. So you actually want me to learn songs out of tune? Suuuuuure. Secondly, the calibration feature on this is almost useless. I am using a 60s Telecaster Classic with the volume and tone both cranked, and the calibration is still telling me the signal is too weak. I was finally able to get a "calibration", but had to set my selector switch all the way to the bridge pickup. I thought I would be good to go at this point, so I started in on a couple of lessons, just as a very quick brush up and to get them "marked off" as being accomplished. Here's where Rocksmith started in on failing me completely. "Let's find the 3rd, 5th and 7th frets.." easy peasy, right? NOT SO FAST. It won't even recognize that I'm playing the 7th fret on low E. "That sounds like the 8th fret. Let's give that another try." REALLY? So at this point, I feel like this unfinished turd of a learning program is actually going to be detrimental to my learning process. At this point, I'd much rather just get out my old chord books and dive into learning some of my own progressions and crafting my own style. I truly hope that if you've purchased this game, it actually works well for you. TLDR version: tuner is inaccurate garbage, game doesn't recognize proper notes when played properly.

Exelente producto, exelente precio y muy recreativo. es muy bueno para poder aprender a tocar tanto la guitarra como el bajo.

easy to learn to play great songs to download and many to choose from

Este juego básicamente usa la idea de Guitar Hero para enseñar a tocar la guitarra eléctrica, electroacústica o bajo eléctrico. No es una maravilla de la tecnología musical que nos va a convertir en equiparables a las grandes leyendas del rock, pero tampoco es una mala idea. De hecho es considerablemente más entretenido que las prácticas tradicionales que involucran repeteir acordes una y otra vez. Incluye varios minijuegos orientados a mejorar la habilidad que se agradecen. Y también podemos progresar en nuestro intento de tocar nuestras canciones favoritas. Un interesante modo para principiantes.

El juego me llegaria de 6 a 10 dias habiles y me llego al quinto dia habil, todo en perfectas condiciones, el juego esta increible, estoy seguro que aprendere a tocar guitarra.

Muy padre, el paquete llego antes de lo esperado y todo bien protegido y sellado lo malo es que yo creo que lo protegen tanto que doblan y maltratan mucho la caja pero todo estuvo completo y es un excelente juego para quienes quieren empezar con la música