As the guy who would rock out in front of the radio/stereo, I naturally chose lead guitar and immediately got to work learning some of the songs on offer. What you choose will depend entirely on your current play style, what instrument you have as well as a heavy dose of personal preference. You can play as the lead guitarist, rhythm guitarist or the bassist.

When you first start up Rocksmith 2014, you’ll be asked what you’ll be wanting to play. Yup, that’s there too, as well as a plethora of other songs to get your skills up if you’ve never played before, or even just to give you a challenge if you’re already a fretboard master. Want to learn to play Iron Maiden’s ‘The Trooper’? Sure, it’s on there. Rocksmith 2014 takes the original ideas shown in Rocksmith, improves upon almost every aspect, tweaks some of the features, and fills the bank of songs with a vast array of rock-inducing anthems. You don’t need last year’s Rocksmith in order to play 2014 Edition – you don’t even need to have picked up a guitar before (although you do need to own one).

The first important thing to mention – and a distinction that Ubisoft themselves are trying hard to get people to realise – is that Rocksmith 2014 isn’t Rocksmith 2. That was until I was given the opportunity to review this year’s offering of Rocksmith Rocksmith 2014. So much so that the axe I’d wanted for so long would sit in the corner of my flat, literally gathering dust. Things didn’t work out the way I wanted though, and time, school and (eventually) moving half way across the country in order to find a job all got in the way of learning the guitar.

As time went on, I replaced the fake guitar with a real electric guitar and replaced the attempts at playing along with music with just trying to learn the songs themselves. I’d stand in front of the stereo, fake-guitar in hand (usually a cricket bat or tennis racket), and jam to whatever music was blaring from it at that particular moment in time. Even from young age I always fancied myself as some kind of rock God.

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