Initially launched on the Meta Quest, Unplugged: Air Guitar is a rhythm recreation the place you, effectively, play an air guitar. You strum with one hand and transfer the opposite to completely different elements of the neck in keeping with a be aware chart much like video games like Rock Band or Guitar Hero.
With a core monitor checklist of 20 plus tracks from throughout the historical past of rock music and one other 20 tracks unlocked alongside the way in which, the sport offers a pleasant, diversified checklist of tunes. Nevertheless, whereas the marketing campaign mode doles the tracks out slowly, it does so with no sense of cohesion. The entire tracks are grouped into tiers with seemingly no actual rhyme or motive, solely serving as an impediment to unlocking the subsequent admittedly spectacular venues. We did encounter some points with the development the place we would miss out on essential tutorials, so issues can feels a little bit slapdash in locations.
This tutorials are important, too, as they’re anchored by “Satchel”, the guitarist of Metal Panther, and dish out essential info at tempo. The primary impression of those is cringe-inducing, ridiculing “nerds” in what appears like a really outdated skit, however as you go alongside, the movies get progressively cheesier and genuinely humorous. Plus, they educate you the sport’s sturdy and exact mechanics.
To play, you maintain down completely different numbers of buttons in your PSVR2 Sense Controllers to approximate notes – you’ll even be tilting the guitar at completely different angles on larger difficulties – all whereas the sport’s spectacular monitoring is put to make use of. Strumming patterns approximate actual life in a means even Rock Band doesn’t, and fretting on the neck is nice, because it’s capable of differentiate between very slight variations in hand placement in your guitar. This precision leaves quite a lot of room for mastery.
Because of this, the sport subscribes to the “simple to play however tough to grasp” cliché, and provides sufficient replay worth because of its diversified monitor checklist that it is value sticking with over many classes.