Thursday, June 12, 2008

Kill people with your deadly Guitar Hero skills in the Lute Hero mod

Kill people with your deadly Guitar Hero skills in the Lute Hero mod

In one of the more creative game mods I've seen, somebody mixed the engine of the Bioware's D&D RPG game Neverwinter Nights 2, with the gameplay elements of Guitar Hero. Sounds crazy? It looks like the mix works, from the video below.

The mod was made by a certain Adam Miller (check out his website here). This guy appears to be sort of ascended mod master. He's making this very impressive campaign/module for Neverwinter Nights 2, called Dark Waters, of which Lute Hero is a stand-alone part.

Where did Adam get his inspiration from? "I've always had fun merging gameplay into Neverwinter Nights, starting with Demon Cards which was a mix of Magic the Gathering coupled with real-time combat. I had been playing Guitar Hero and watching School of Rock, and I thought to myself 'Why can't I really melt some faces with my wicked guitar solo?' A few months and lots of swearing later, Lute Hero was born," he said in an interview with BeyondThePale of the Neverwinter Nights 2 Vault.

Judging from the video, the better you play, the more havok you wreak with your lute. Get a long combo in, and watch people explode into flames.

What a great idea for a mod. If you have Neverwinter Nights 2, it seems like this should practically be a required download.

 




First gameplay trailer of Mirror’s Edge looks fantastic