Celebrate The Launch Of ‘Rock Band 4’ With A New Trailer For ‘Guitar Hero Live’!

Briefly: All this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.

Yes, the plastic instrument war begins anew this month, with the launch of Rock Band 4 today and Guitar Hero Live on October 20th.

Rock Band 4 may have Guitar Hero Live beat when it comes to release date, but none of the ads I’ve seen for Rock Band 4 have had as much influence on me as this Guitar Hero Live video does.

See, Rock Band 4 looks largely similar to the games that preceded it (though with a much, much larger library this time around), while Guitar Hero Live looks to be doing something completely different, focusing on an actual concert experience with real crowds and real reactions (as well as the social GHTV, which sounds interesting as hell).

In any case, today’s video shows James Franco and Lenny Kravitz duking it out in the game’s ‘Win the Crowd’ mode, which looks like so much fun. Take a look.

https://youtu.be/ev66m8Obosw

So, are you looking forward to the resurgence of these instrument-powered titles? Or is this a niche that would wish would stay dead?