Guitar Hero Live - tons of details on gameplay, GHTV

- Guitar Hero TV's interface is designed to connect you to your existing Guitar Hero Live library and to other players online
- game learns from your activity and preferences
- if you've completed a particular song but haven't mastered it, Guitar Hero Live may suggest you try it on a higher difficulty
- when new songs are added, the menu may surface certain additions to the song catalog
- go into the full library and see every available song
- screen lists your high score and difficulty setting for each track, along with goals like maintaining a 50-note streak
-programming guide,has various "shows" air on two different "channels."
- jump right into whatever's on at the moment: "Rock vs. Metal," "Summer Hits," "Top 20 Hits" and more
- looks like a cable box's programming guide
- bar at the top shows how far along the current show is, and you can see what's coming in the next few hours
- check out a seven-day view to plan ahead
- start playing a song partway through on GHTV
- game immediately matches you against other people who were playing that show at that moment
- left side of the screen shows the other players' scores.
- FreeStyleGames will integrate new songs into the programs as it adds tracks after launch.
- Activision won't charge a subscription fee
- anybody who buys Guitar Hero Live will be able to play new songs as they're added to the game's library
- essentially making GHTV free-to-play with microtransactions
- uses two different currencies: one that you earn as you play the game, and another that you can purchase with real money
- former is called "Coins" and the latter is called "HC", but names aren't final
- get Coins for doing just about anything in Guitar Hero Live, including signing into the game
- the more you play, the more you level up your profile in the game, known as Status
- as you reach new Status levels, you unlock content such as player cards and unique note highways
- sometimes you'll earn those items by playing; other times you can spend Coins on them
- modify your in-game guitar to improve your game
- buy those mods with Coins to do things like increase your score per note or raise your streak multiplier more quickly
- everything in Guitar Hero Live lives in the cloud
- 3 ways to play new songs: wait for them to come up in a GHTV show, spend Coins for a single play, pay real money to own
- must be online to access these songs, even for songs you've purchased
- new content includes exclusives that will be available only in GHTV
- all the songs in GHTV have music videos that play behind them
- this content will be available in GHTV's "Premium Shows", limited-time challenges
- complete different prerequisites for each one in order to enter.
- buy your way into a Premium Show with HC
- completing a Premium Show may also award special content like player card
- unable to change the difficulty in a Premium Show once you begin
- get bonuses like earning Status at an increased rate while playing Premium Shows
- for parties and other situations, Activision will offer limited-time all-access passes