Ubisoft has dominated the dance game genre since its Just Dance franchise first launched. Now the game maker is taking advantage of the guitar gaming genre with no new Rock Band or Guitar Hero games being released. Rocksmith is the first and only videogame that allows players to plug any real guitar into an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 and play music from an ever-expanding library of artists. Rocksmith adapts to the player skill level from novices who have never picked up a guitar to the most experienced shredder.

With there being so many different music games already in existence, it's a little hard to distinguish yourself from the rest out there. Even so, Rocksmith looks to do so by allowing people to use real guitars to play their game as opposed to plastic instruments with colored buttons. But it's not just the implementation of real instruments that makes it unique. Rocksmith takes a new approach in the way we play music games to actually teach us how to play the songs featured in the game. After getting the chance to play it at Ubisoft's recent holiday event, I left feeling quite impressed with what the game had to offer.

You can't miss the Ubisoft booth.  It's and open and usually has the loudest music and the most people dancing of any booth on the South Hall floor.  If they're not recruiting guests or employees to hit the stage for a demo of Just Dance 3, they're introducing a new musician, taught to play real guitar with the new Rocksmith game.

As of lately, the stock value of music video games has gone down quite a bit, figuratively. There was a time when Guitar Hero and Rock Band were battling against each other for music game supremacy, but in the end, Guitar Hero was put to rest due to oversaturation of the market. There has been little activity in the genre since then, but that doesn't keep Ubisoft from making one of their own. Ubisoft's Rocksmith looks to try to make an impression by using actual guitars, but will this move be enough to get the genre back up to speed again?