Beginning shortly after the release of Guitar Hero for the PlayStation 2, a game which players use guitar-shaped controllers to play well-known songs in time with a virtual band, players began to upload videos of themselves playing the songs from the games, usually without flaws and using the games Whammy Bar to achieve more in-game Star Power in order to score more points. There have been many accusations of posters using “bots” to 100% a song many would view as difficult in order to simply look cool to YouTube users. There have been videos in which the poster will show the “bot” or physical device to play the game in the videos. With the release of Guitar Hero II and III and so on (for PS2, Xbox and PS3), more "impossible songs’’, such as Through the Fire and Flames by speed metal band Dragonforce, have been added to the game’s song list, and users typically add videos of said song or other songs near the end of the games due to their high levels of difficulty. Also, videos have been posted of the game Rock Band but may include other “instruments” from the game due to Rock Band featuring drums, bass, and vocals with respectively shaped controllers. Users continue to use the game own version of the Whammy bar and “Overdirve” equivalent of Star Power to achieve the most points, and post their highest ratings, usually five-stars and 100% rating.
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