McElroy acknowledged the presentation can potentially be "cringe-worthy", but felt that the video was put together with self-awareness of this factor to make it more charming, noting some of the extra details that FreeStyleGames and the actors used to fully take on their roles. Weak sales of Warriors of Rock, in part, led to Activision cancelling a planned 2011 sequel, and shuttering the Guitar Hero franchise. Tout est bien dans la boîte ( à savoir la guitare en deux morceau avec la sangle, les piles, le dongle pour connecter la guitare à la console ainsi que le jeu bien évidemment ).

To avoid injury to the other actors from the motions of the camera, the routines were all choreographed based on the camera's motions and used as cues for the other actors.Another cool feature is you play live v other people and you can see where you rank from 1st to 10th in the bar next to the highway as your playing. Hirshberg had encouraged the team to reconsider Guitar Hero, noting the fan dedication to the series, but noted that the game needed innovation to be successful. The GHTV mode has mixed opinions, with most reviewers praising the concept, with the presentation of the channels were highlighted as hearkening to the heyday of MTV, and giving the player the ability to explore new music.

The cancelled game omitted the additional instruments and used only a guitar peripheral, redesigning the unit to include six strings replacing the strum bar; the resulting unit was considered too expensive to manufacture and purchase. If you get certain stars and scores you unlock some pictures (which is pointless, it should unlock something better than that). Buttersworth was displeased with the need to grind through songs in the free channels as to earn Play tokens to access a song he wanted to play, and the ability to permanently unlock a song, stating "that lack of freedom undermined a lot of the fun".When in touch mode, the note display geared towards the 6-button controller is replaced with four touch-screen buttons but otherwise retains the same gameplay; with the controller, the game otherwise plays the same.

The GHTV mode was shut down on 1 December 2018, reducing the available Guitar Hero songs from 484 to the 42 present on-disc. Again, great menu graphics, but personally I think they've gone down the "too simple" route with tiles like in Windows 8 which I must say I absolutely hate. It also removes the highway during parts of the song where you don't need to play so you can watch the video rather than twiddling your thumbs. They also mention that the game has nothing but pop songs and that the selection of songs is very small. Star power: you now don't seem to fill up a bar but more so just hit a couple of streams of star power buttons correctly and a plectrum lights up and you enable in the same old ways.In an earnings report shortly following the game's release, Activision stated that Guitar Hero Live was outselling their previous two Guitar Hero games, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock and Guitar Hero 5, though did not report exact sales numbers. The Bolt tracking camera (on left) was used to capture the other band actors and audience members to create the live-action footage for the game. However, Hirshberg stated that Activision realized they needed to reinvent the series so that consumers would not consider it much the same as previous games and to help sway those that were turned off by the earlier saturation of music games. Hero Power, replacing Star Power from previous Guitar Hero games, is collected by correctly playing marked series of notes on the track; Hero Power can be accumulated, marked as on-screen guitar picks next to the track, to be used at later times.