Dan Pryce is back again with his weekly column about the weird and wonderful world of gaming as he sees it. This week Dan ponders back at the news of Guitar Hero shutting up shop

Guitar Hero, rather ironically, took the path of all great rock bands – it reached the top, before it was consumed by its own hubris. Things started out well in 2005 with the release of Guitar Hero – the first album, critically acclaimed but still struggling to break the charts. It was developed in collaboration between Red Octane (who made the iconic plastic guitars) and Harmonix (who developed the software) – the Roadie and the Songwriter respectively. It wasn’t until Guitar Hero II in 2006 that things really began to take off – the series vaccinated itself from Difficult Second Album Syndrome with and All Killer No Filler effort. Many would argue that this was Guitar Hero’s high point – the gameplay was flawless, and the setlist the most rocking it would ever be.

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