Unplugged, analysis. Review with game experience, gameplay, trailer and price

a Guitar Hero on virtual reality that uses your hands as a controller, independent label and on a limited budget. Were there so many things that could go wrong in Unplugged that, having seen what we have seen, the only thing we can do is take off our hats.

He knows how to go beyond what we saw in Activision’s saga of plastic instruments, the use of his hands is spectacular when you get the hang of it and, although not everything on his list of songs is pure gold, there are enough gems to get excited as if you were on stage playing an air guitar. What a pleasant surprise.

Amazing hand recognition

With a superb presentation in which the glam rock star Satchel accompanies us between pranks and spirits, the idea behind Unplugged is to play the guitar using our own fingers to get the best possible score in each of the songs included.

This, which will sound like a plastic instrument to many, in the virtual reality of Unplugged is solved with an air guitar that you can handle as you please. Using the vibrato lever to pick up the guitar and place it in the position that is most comfortable for you, from that point on you will only have to worry about moving the pick through the strings with one hand and placing the fingers of the other according to the marked chords. .

Now stand before a The Kids Aren’t Alright from The Offspring, with your hand moving back and forth as you lift a few fingers and press others against a phantom pole, and imagine it works. It is a real joy.

The limitations of the device – resorting to the cameras of the glasses to capture the position of hands and fingers well – mean that getting the hang of it to find the perfect position is the difference between a remarkable experience and an excellent one, but when you reach that point and you know where to place the guitar and how to position yourself, Unplugged has nothing to envy to the experience of Guitar Hero.

Stretching the gum more than necessary

Envy can come from other places, of course. The list of songs drops until 23 with mythical themes like the Bohemian Like You by Dandy Warhols or the Say It Ain’t So by Weezer, but also with others less emblematic that seek to bring another type of tone and rhythm to the game. Here you have them all:

But where the deficiencies are most noticeable Unplugged it is in that damn mania of trying to lengthen the experience more than necessary based on excessive scores and difficulties. If you want to play all the songs, you will have to face challenges that ask for huge scoring combos in order to advance.

Under normal conditions and with a 100% success rate, that would only be limited to the sleight of hand with which your parents have improved your genes, but here you have errors that can escape your control if at some point the hand tracking it doesn’t work as it should, thus plunging you into unavoidable frustration.

Luckily, it’s a matter of getting the hang of it and learning the songs well to anticipate possible errors, but I wouldn’t have minded having a mode where I can go song by song on medium difficulty and decide from there to what extent I want to become an expert.

iGamesNews’s opinion

Despite all the buts you can put on UnpluggedThe only thing that comes out after several days with him is throwing bras and panties at him, just like when you finish a song and the audience rewards you with clothes to exchange for new guitars.

It may not be the perfect experience, but you have to admit that it comes very close. He proves to have been smart enough to have played it with hand recognition and it has turned out well. In addition, having taken the formula one step further Guitar Hero It is not something that many games can say. From here, my sincere congratulations to the team.