A Guitar Hero Alternative
Most of you know that I love Guitar Hero. I’ve got Guitar Hero III and Guitar Hero Aerosmith for the Wii. I’m currently working my way through Aerosmith on Hard doing just a few songs each night. I even have my own Guitar Hero webpage on their site. But it is a game that I would struggle recommending to others. It is awesome, but there are certain songs (on GH3 especially) that definitely are not Christ honoring. I would hate to see any youth get hooked on some of the bands that are anti-Christian. Today, the blog world was buzzing about a new alternative to Guitar Hero (thanks Ronnie for the heads up)
At first I thought this would be pretty lame, but after watching the videos on their site and looking at the song list, I think this would be great for youth at Church. They have a great mix of old and new and praise and rock and alternative. Everything from Skillet to Kutless to DC Talk to old school Petra. I’m wanting to buy this and hook it up to the big screens downtown to play during our youth meetings. It only runs on PC’s or Macs, there’s no playstation or xbox versions yet, but it still looks cool. The controllers are wireless and the game plays almost identically to Guitar Hero. Check out their site at DigitalPraise.com for all the details. I’ve included the feature list and song list below.
Features
Unparalleled Game Play
• Custom Lead and Bass notes per song.
• Four levels of difficulty per song.
• Supports two players at once.
• Onscreen lyrics emphasize Christian themes.
• Unlock new songs in sets of five as you play.
• Tilt the guitar to activate the spinner bonus for maximum points.
• Power Duel Mode sends surprises to mess with your opponent.
• Record high scores per song so you’ll know who’s on top.
• Earn new guitars with cool sounds and effects.
• Post high scores online and see how you rank.
• Custom Lead and Bass notes per song.
• Four levels of difficulty per song.
• Supports two players at once.
• Onscreen lyrics emphasize Christian themes.
• Unlock new songs in sets of five as you play.
• Tilt the guitar to activate the spinner bonus for maximum points.
• Power Duel Mode sends surprises to mess with your opponent.
• Record high scores per song so you’ll know who’s on top.
• Earn new guitars with cool sounds and effects.
• Post high scores online and see how you rank.
Guitar Praise songlist includes:
| Artist | Song Name |
| 12 Stones | Broken |
| Bride | Same Ol’ Sinner |
| Caedmons Call | There You Go |
| Casting Crowns | Lifesong |
| Chris Tomlin | Made to Worship |
| Darrell Evans | So Good To Me |
| David Crowder Band | Foreverandever Etc. |
| Day Of Fire | Reap and Sow |
| dc Talk | Jesus Freak |
| Family Force 5 | Love Addict |
| Flyleaf | Perfect |
| Hawk Nelson | The Show |
| Hawk Nelson | Friend Like That |
| Inhabited | Rescue Me |
| Israel & New Breed | All Around |
| James Clay | Franklin Park |
| Jared Anderson | Blind Man |
| Jennifer Knapp | Undo Me |
| Jeremy Camp | Tonight |
| Jessie Daniels | What I Hear |
| Jonah33 | Father’s Song |
| Josh Bates | Perfect Day |
| Kutless | Beyond the Surface |
| Kutless | Hearts of the Innocent |
| Lincoln Brewster | Spin |
| Nate Sallie | All About You |
| Nevertheless | The Real |
| Newsboys | Something Beautiful |
| Paul Baloche | Rock of Ages |
| Paul Baloche | All The Earth Will Sing Your Praises |
| Petra | Backsliding Blues |
| Pillar | When Tommorrow Comes |
| Red | Breathe Into Me |
| Relient K | I Need You |
| Seventh Day Slumber | Awake |
| Skillet | The Older I Get |
| Skillet | Rebirthing |
| Skillet | Savior |
| Spoken | Wind In My Sails |
| Spoken | Falling Further |
| Spur 58 | Sleepwalkers |
| Stellar Kart | Procrastinating |
| Superchick | We Live |
| The Crucified | The Pit |
| This Beautiful Republic | Going Under |
| Thousand Foot Krutch | The Flame in All of Us |
| Thousand Foot Krutch | The Art of Breaking |
| tobyMac | I’m For You |
| Todd Agnew | This Fragile Breath |
| Warren Barfield | My Heart Goes Out |
| Whitecross | Who Will You Follow |
| Whitecross | When The Walls Tumble Down |
Mike, I sure hope that we can get hold of this at FUMC Downtown. My oldest son really likes Guitar Hero and I too have a hard time recommending that one due to the secnes and some of the lyrics.
I wish they would get the Guitar Praise for the playstation or any game system. We bought the Dance Praise and the kids really enjoy it but sometimes the computer stops or interrupts a song. I don’t know if I’d buy the Guitar Hero Praise version for that reason. My son is begging for the Guitar Hero for his DS. I looked at the song list and was surprised to see Nirvana and Ozzy Osbourne.