Rhythm Fighting Game God of Rock Lays Down a Beat This Winter

Rhythm violence

by Khayl Adam Thu 25th Aug 2022

God of Rock is a fascinating blending of genres. Imagine an unholy melding of Street Fighter and Guitar Hero, as it combines elements of both fighting and rhythm games, and it looks pretty awesome. It's coming to PS5 and PS4 in Winter, although no firm release date has been announced.

Featuring a dozen fighters, each with their own unique moves and style, God of Rock uses rhythm-based gameplay crossed with fighting game mechanics as players battle to the beat to be the last one standing. There will be more than 40 original songs for players to fight over, and eight dynamic stages that will evolve as each battle progresses.

What do you think of God of Rock? Step to the beat in the comments section below.

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Khayl Adam is Push Square's Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

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Smiffy01
Thu 25th Aug 2022

Love the concept but surely you would miss seeing all the fighting due to only concentrating on the bottom half of the screen.

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stinkyx
Thu 25th Aug 2022

@Smiffy01 I don't think there's much to watch on the upper half anyway lol

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CWill97
Thu 25th Aug 2022

The name is pretty wicked. Hopefully it turns out good. Interested for sure

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SystemAddict
Thu 25th Aug 2022

Can you imagine a guitar of the future, you trigger crushing riffs activate searing scales and unleash face melting licks with a sequence of synchronous keystrokes.

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J2theEzzo
Thu 25th Aug 2022

@Wolfie_Pie I was just thinking to myself 'wasn't there already a game like this?' And bust-a-groove was it! That was pretty fun, back in the day.
This, however, I have no interest in, haha. If I want to play a rhythm fighting game, I'll just boot up Sekiro again 😉

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Amnesiac
Thu 25th Aug 2022

@Wolfie_Pie Thanks for the dose of nostalgia. I played that game so much that more than 20(!) years later the lyrics “Nobody knows me ‘til I say Hi I’m Kelly” are still burned into my brain.