Guitar Hero
Following a five-year hiatus, as described below, Activision announced "Guitar Hero Live" for release in late 2015 on most seventh-generation and eighth-generation consoles. "Live" was developed to rebuild the game from the ground up, and while the gameplay remains similar to the earlier titles, focusing primarily on the lead guitar, it uses a 3-button guitar controller with each button having "up" and "down" positions, making for more complex tabulators. The game using live footage of a rock concert, taken from the perspective of the lead guitarist, as to provide a more immersive experience.
Guitar Hero
In the first two games and the 2007 expansion "", the majority of the songs on the main career mode set lists are covers of the original song; for example, a song may be presented as ""Free Bird as made famous by Lynyrd Skynyrd"". "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock" introduces a much larger range of original recordings, and "World Tour" featured a setlist that contained all master recordings. The covers throughout the games are mostly recreated by WaveGroup Sound who has worked before to create songs for "Beatmania", "Dance Dance Revolution", and "Karaoke Revolution", making small changes to the guitar portions to make them more adaptable for gameplay. Almost all of the unlockable bonus songs are songs performed by the original artist for the game (the only exception is the song "She Bangs the Drums" by The Stone Roses, which is featured in "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock").