With the runaway success of Activision’s Guitar Hero franchise, and murmurs over the years of the ‘Hero’ franchise spreading out to other instruments (above and beyond the ‘standard’ guitar, drum and microphone combination), enthusiast press bloggers and industry commentators soon took up the call to guess where the mega-publisher could next turn its eye, with regular jokes cropping up about ‘Timpani Hero,’ ‘Xylophone Hero’ and, my favourite, ‘Bagpipe Hero.’

When it was announced that the next ‘instrument’ to be inducted into the ‘Hero’ franchise would be none other than a DJ mix deck, complete with working scratch turntable and crossfader, with a game entitled ‘DJ Hero,’ the aforementioned bloggers and naysayers must certainly have thought that reality had surpassed their wildest fantastical imaginings.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of DJ Hero.