Earlier this week, Genius Products invited us out to their offices to get an exclusive, early hands-on of their upcoming turntable-based music game, Scratch: The Ultimate DJ.
While the game will officially be revealed to the world this Wednesday night, we got a first-look at the controller, as well as a chance to play a few tracks. More detailed hands-on impressions will be going up later this week, but Genius' Mike Rubinelli was nice enough to chat it up with us about what you can expect when the game ships.
Hit the jump for the first look at Scratch, and at me looking like an idiot in the process.
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8:09 PM on 06.02.2009
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CONFIRMED.
Anyway, I'm psyched for this game.
I wonder which one I'm gonna end up choosing: DJ Hero, or Scratch.
Classic Hip Hop!
Played a few tracks, although I'm not 100% on which ones I can talk about with incurring the wrath of PR. But I will say, you will be surprised at some of the stuff that appears on the game's track list... it's varied, and there are some pretty amazing artists on there. It's not just mainstream stuff that you might expect from a game.
True yes, but you still have to admit this controller is worlds better than DJ Hero's piss poor attempt at a DJ controller.
I want to buy his game because he's a nice guy.
http://blip.tv/file/2178760
So i'll just have to wait and see. But the games seems pretty different.
(read: Gorillaz is my favorite band ever + 3030 is my favorite rap album ever)
Hey Nick, be sure to let us know which of the 2 turntables feels the best ;-)
I agree, especially considering that Beatmania is harder than THIS, people are going to ace expert on DJ Hero really easily.
In reality, I don't expect this to do too well, based on the premise of it trying to beat the "Hero" brand. However this genuinely does look better.
No Run DMC, no buy.