Rocksmith+, Ubisoft's learn-to-play-guitar game, finally rocks out next week
Remember Rocksmith? Released for consoles in 2011 and PC a year later, it was a lot like Guitar Hero except it used a real guitar, which you'd connect to your PC via a Real Tone USB cable. DLC development for the 2014 edition was finally halted in 2020(opens in new tab), but Ubisoft resurrected it a year later as Rocksmith+(opens in new tab), and announced today that it's just one week away from release.
Rocksmith+ is very similar to the original game, but different in some significant ways. It's exclusive to PC this time around, and while you can still connect your guitar (you need a guitar, by the way) to your system with the Real Tone cable, you can also skip that part and use the Rocksmith+ Connect mobile app, which tracks your playing by turning your phone into a mic.
The biggest change, though, is that it's subscription-based rather than a standalone purchase, costing $15 per month, $40 for three months, or $100 for a year. That's not cheap, but it includes access to a library of over 5,000 songs across multiple genres. That's a real improvement over the original, which required that songs be purchased as DLC at some pretty steep prices: Individual tracks, such as (to pick a completely random example) the Spinal Tap classic Sex Farm(opens in new tab), sell for $3 each.
We've also got some system requirements, which are pretty manageable as these things go.
Minimum:
Recommended:
In either case, you'll also need Windows 10 64-bit and a guitar—electric, acoustic, or bass will all work just fine.
The game was originally slated to arrive in 2021, but Ubisoft postponed the launch(opens in new tab) in September of that year following a closed beta test so it could add more songs to the library (only 500 were available in
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