In their efforts to reclaim the music game genre from EA/MTV’s Rock Band, Activision is taking the Guitar Hero series in a new direction with 4-player bands featuring guitar, bass, drums, and microphone. But you probably knew all that already, so we’ll get to the new stuff.

Here’s the new guitar (Wii version, obviously, though they will probably all look very similar), with the major addition of a slide bar in the middle of the neck below the standard five colored buttons.

It looks like this not-so-friendly rock-and-roll rivalry is actually leading to some good innovations. Head on over to IGN for all of the latest details, including pics of the new drum set.

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