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Ubisoft announces 'all new' Rocksmith 2014 Edition

Ubisoft announced Rocksmith 2014 Edition featuring Kinect functionality during its E3 2013 press conference today.

As part of the announcement, Alice in Chains' frontman Jerry Cantrell performed on stage using the instructional guitar-playing game. Cantrell navigated the game's menu with Kinect voice commands during the demonstration. Rocksmith 2014 Edition will feature four instruments: guitar, drums, bass and keyboards. It will include several game modes, such as learn a song, guitarcade, techniques, session mode, non-stop play and multiplayer.

Rocksmith 2014 Edition's track-list more than 50 hit tracks, such as "Stone" by Alice In Chains, "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith, "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" by Bob Dylan, "The Chimera" by The Smashing Pumpkins, "Don't Look Back In Anger" by Oasis and "ultra soul" by B'z.

Rocksmith first launched in North America on Oct. 18, 2011 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Last August, Ubisoft introduced the ability to play bass in the game, which added bass minigames and allowed all previously released songs playable with the instrument

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