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Genre: Music
System(s): PS2
ESRB: Unknown
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Guitar Hero is a music video game that employs a guitar-shaped peripheral (a miniature Gibson SG) as a primary controller to simulate the playing of an electric guitar.
It was developed by Harmonix Music Systems and published by RedOctane, and was released on November 8, 2005 in North America for the PlayStation 2. It is similar to Konami's Guitar Freaks, though Guitar Hero looks and plays somewhat differently, and its controller has five buttons to Guitar Freaks' three.
Guitar Hero has won many awards from most major video game publications; numerous websites and magazines named the title "Music (or Puzzle/Rhythm) Game of the Year", and IGN, GameSpot, and X-Play gave it a 5 out of 5 and named it as a runner-up for overall "Game of the Year".
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