DJ Shadow helps out on DJ Hero
A little expertise for Activision
Respected DJ, DJ Shadow, has been helping Activision make the most of their new DJ Hero title, the music man told Game Informer.
Apparently, the DJ wasn't involved in the design side of the game - but he did have a lot to offer the game's British developers on the music side.
"From menu music on down - just from my lifetime of listening to a lot of music that DJs have been using over the years. And a lot of the songs that DJs use, and a lot of the little things, little sound bites that are common on commercials and - you know, songs for the last twenty/thirty years - lots of times people recognize those sounds but they don't necessarily know where they come from," he told the magazine.
"And you know not all of my suggestions were able to be incorporated because of, you know, 'Well we've already licensed this many songs,' or 'We can't find the original copyright holder,' or 'The production team's eyes are bulging out of their heads and their brains are going to explode if we try to actually incorporate this into the gameplay.' So it was a little give and take."
The game will include original mixes by the superstar DJ, as well as other big names.
