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Music is the Weapon in Harmonix's Chroma

Hidden Path and Harmonix collaborate on this music-themed, free-to-play first-person shooter for PC.

Feb. 17 2014

Posted by: Jeff

In This Episode:

Chroma

101 Comments

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Shoot music? Okay

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I can't wait to pay $5 for a saxophone rocket launcher.

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wait, what?

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Any music is a weapon with John Drake involved.

Also diet coke.

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Saints Row 4 Dubstep gun: The game.

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WUBWUBWUBWUBWUB

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dubstep gun.. ok, i'm in..

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Looks cool + don't trust them to not employ shady F2P shit = pass

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I'd say Harmonix get benefit of the doubt with F2P, they seem less likely to employ shady tactics than most.

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Interesting.

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I'd say "wait and see" on our F2P shit being super shady. We've never been super shady in the past...maybe give us a chance?

(ALSO THANKS FOR THE HEADLINE, JEFF)

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I will hunt down everyone who uses dubstep.

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I'd say "wait and see" on our F2P shit being super shady. We've never been super shady in the past...maybe give us a chance?

(ALSO THANKS FOR THE HEADLINE, JEFF)

Alright, you get the benefit of the doubt ... but only because you asked.

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I can do this. I can play this game. I can play it a lot.

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John Drake and the crew will always get the benefit of the doubt from me. Can't wait to check it out. Hope I make it into the alpha!

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I actually wrote up a design doc for a music themed FPS that would use rhythm as a mechanic. Cool to see that Harmonix is making something similar!

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Was that a dubstep gun? Also, was Aerosmith consulted for this and/or where does this fit in to the RevolutionX timeline?

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The look of this is super rad. Definitely interested in playing this.

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If they can implement a "Make your own gun" feature, that would be the best.

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Dub horns would be the ultimate weapon.

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Saints' Row's dubstep gun turned into full game? I could get behind that.

Does it play my Rock Band songs?

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I want one of those futuremasks.

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If the dubstep is set to like two, I'm in.

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Music is your weapon.

Sound is your arsenal.

Guns are your guitars.

Pistols are your drumsticks.

Freebird.

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Wonder if you import music for your ammo or something like that. Could end up with the stuff of nightmares in multiplayer.

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Extratone!

Also, who is that guy at 0:14? Looks like the same person as the "lawyer" in that recent dogecoin goatse.cx video.

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This is it right? The end of video games? I mean, it has to be.

On a more serious note, I hope I can mow people down with the power of Neil Peart's drum solos.

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I'd say "wait and see" on our F2P shit being super shady. We've never been super shady in the past...maybe give us a chance?

(ALSO THANKS FOR THE HEADLINE, JEFF)

GIVE ME IT I KNOW IT'S DONE DON'T HOLD OUT ON MEEEEEEEEEE

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I'm droppin' plates!

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Finally, my favorite Cartel album gets a game. Thanks HMX!

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Leave it to Harmonix to turn a throwaway joke in a Volition game into something that looks totally viable.

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This looks super cool.

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Dubstep guns for everybody!!!!

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This would be cool if dub step wasn't involved. Hopefully the endgame is inclusive to what music there will be.

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Well this looks interesting i love music games and harmonix is an awesome studio! will definitely keep an eye on this game.

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@johntdrake: Cool looking teaser. Any timeframe for when gameplay footage might be released?

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This actually sounds super cool, plus Harmonnix has a great pedigree so color me excited.

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I thought this looked pretty cool, then they started shooting noise.

hopefully they are aware how much this dubstep sucks and thats why they blew up the noisy man

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And so, Dubstep was finally defeated.

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Can't wait to see what some of the gameplay starts to look like. Only odd part to me is how they'll make money off their free to play model. Not normally a fan of that but I'm a less of a fan of people passing on Harmonix titles.

Also coming off of Disney's Fantasia series I am interested to see how they mash/twist generas for a shooter.

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Saints Row 4 Dubstep gun: The game.

Exactly what I thought

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You are the music

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Oh man, if I could import the Tron soundtrack into the game, that would be so baller.

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Edited By Brendan

Looks interesting, I other hope musical styles are prevalent along with dubstep. A blasting orchestral sound coming out of a gun is way more interesting to me than anything dubstep related.

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@alexandersheen: THAT WOULD BE AMAZEBALLS. I hope there is more music than just the dubstep.

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This concept sounds great, I signed up for the alpha post haste.

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This concept seems pretty cool. I'll be looking out for this one.

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I am interested in this.

There's apparently a good bit of information about how the guns work already on the wiki page, including a dual-pistols loadout where you fire the left and right pistol by playing a Rock Band Blitz style two note music highway.

That sounds pretty great.

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It's like they made an entire game based on the concept of SR4's Dubstep Gun. I need this!

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Sounds and Looks GORGEOUS! Definitely signing up for alpha-play