A Hands-On Review of DJ Hero Renegade Edition: A Music Game that Surpassed Expectations

I spent a solid two to three days playing through the game, and I must say it's not bad. The hardest song on the "hard" mode was 69, which is quite impressive considering it's one of the most challenging songs on the hardest level. This shows that the game does offer a good level of difficulty, even for non-experts.

The unlockables in the game are another feature that I found to be really cool. You can unlock new characters, gear such as headphones, decks, and samples from Beats by Dre. The gear is really neat, with different skins and colors available for customization. For example, my character's deck skin is a cool red sweep.

After playing through the game, I took a break to show off some of its features. When you pause the game, it gives you a countdown, similar to "three two one," so you don't mess up. This feature adds an extra layer of excitement and challenge to the gameplay.

One of the most impressive aspects of DJ Hero Renegade Edition is its soundtrack. The game features 93 original songs, all mixed by DJs Graham Master Fresh and other talented artists. Many of these songs are from popular genres such as country and rock, which means that fans of these genres will be able to recognize and enjoy the music.

The game's tracklist is a veritable who's who of contemporary music stars, with artists like Eminem, Jay-Z, Wale, Rihanna, and Gwen Stefani. This is in addition to other popular acts, showcasing the game's diversity and range.

While DJ Hero Renegade Edition may not have all the features of Rock Band, it certainly has its own unique charm and strengths. The game's graphics are top-notch, with a clean and user-friendly interface that makes navigation a breeze. The presentation is also impressive, with colorful lights and effects that add to the overall gaming experience.

In short, DJ Hero Renegade Edition is an excellent music game that exceeded my expectations in many ways. With its high-quality soundtrack, engaging gameplay, and innovative features, it's a must-play for fans of music games. Whether you're a seasoned gamer or just looking for something new and exciting, this game is sure to deliver.

Overall, I highly recommend DJ Hero Renegade Edition to anyone who enjoys music games or is simply looking for a fun and challenging experience. With its unique features, impressive soundtrack, and user-friendly interface, it's an absolute must-play.

The game also offers online features that are worth exploring, although they may not be as extensive as those found in other popular music games like Rock Band. Nevertheless, the online community is active and engaging, making it easy to connect with other players and share tips and strategies.

In conclusion, DJ Hero Renegade Edition is a standout title that sets the bar high for music games. Its impressive soundtrack, innovative features, and user-friendly interface make it an absolute must-play for anyone who enjoys music games. Whether you're a seasoned gamer or just looking for something new and exciting, this game is sure to deliver hours of entertainment and fun.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys how's it going it's Brandon here BB Zappa touchdown but today I'll be giving you a review on DJ Hero Renegade Edition uh with Jay-Z and Eminem and so that's the box that came in the Box you're looking at right there you can see just how big it is let me put my hand up there so you can compare it I could like fit two Arms of Mine across there and it also did come with the CD right here uh Jay-Z and Eminem CD 12 tracks from each of them so uh that's pretty cool it's the first time they've ever been included I was actually listening to the Jay-Z once that's why it's out and that has a little graphic right in there like a turntable or something so that's cool and then it says DJ Hero Renegade Edition right there so that's the box that came in really nicely packed as well um so that's really cool it did come with everything else which I will show you in a minute like the stand and the case and everything like that so up here we have my our stand um it is standing on the legs the four legs and it is on the full case I actually the first time I had like half of it it's actually supposed to be the full case so I have the full briefcase on there and if you go up under here you can see that that's where the legs screw in and uh things on the side right there and here is the actual turntable itself you have the your buttons right here along with your indicator just to tell you it's on and again this does take batteries uh included battery so that's a good thing um and obviously the batteries aren't going to run out too fast then you have your Euphoria button which is equivalent to the uh the um star power and Guitar Hero if you're familiar with Guitar Hero which I know a lot of you probably are and then here is the what's equivalent to the whammy bar and Guitar Hero that multiplies uh that boosts up your points and here's the turntable Crossfade mixer sorry about that then I put this little sticker right down here it came with some stickers I went ahead and put that on there and I also went ahead and put the Jay-Z presents DJ hair Renegade Edition says Rock Nation and Rockefeller up there and then you have just your basic turntable right there the blue red and green button if you turn it over you can't actually switch out if you're a left-handed person you can switch it from right here um there's somewhere on here right there this is a little latch right there you can just pull it out and uh switch it around so if you're a lefty you can put this part right here over on this side just in case you are a left-handed person so that's a cool feature it adds and also let me just add that when it is on the stand it it may seem at first uh kind of unstory if you use like one hand but when you have both hands on it and you're actually in the middle of a mix and you're doing a good uh song and everything it actually you can't even tell you you think it's like on a hard floor or something or it's like sitting on a flat surface because it really is really sturdy I was really surprised by that and let me add that this turntable is uh really um you can tell that it's really well built and really well made obviously with the gold plates it's a really nice feature added right there and just I mean this is a fingerprint magnet this black gloss right here and also go going all the way around kind of like a disco ball look um but it is really sturdy uh really well built um like it feels like almost full metal even though you know it's like plastic it really feels really nice so that's enough about the turntable um the case obviously a really nice all-around case right here it's full pretty much metal you have a little handle right down there full all-around case really nice briefcase just to put this in in case you're taking it to a party and whatnot which again is really great for parties so let's go ahead and get into the game itself and before I go ahead and show you that let me just add that this game is fantastic it is probably one of my favorite games of all time and definitely probably the best game I've played this year so let's go ahead and get into some of the gameplay and how this works alright I'm in this view once again where you can see both the screen and the controller so you can actually see me navigating and you can see it on the screen as well right here let me get you a better look at the screen you have right there um scratch the surface which this is all part of your career you just go over in your career and then you could create your own custom DJ setlist and guitar list or you can take the tutorial right there the custom guitar and DJ set list is cool because you can just uh you know start a quick game you don't have to it doesn't affect your career or anything like that and you can also play online which I haven't really played online yet because there's not too many people with the game um there's the quick list again and then that's the very last level of your career which I will unlock later so let me just do a quick play real fast you see if down there it says quick start you can do a quick start you have options continue and select if you go to options it's just stuff like this start chart calibration cheats and all that stuff leaderboards friend invites so let me just go ahead and get uh let me get out of that and I'm just gonna do a quick start all right let's uh let's do a custom DJ set list uh uh I already have some things in here so I'm gonna do the uh actually I'm gonna remove that I'm gonna go all the way up here I'm gonna do Master Ace and John uh Gene Knight born to roll Mr Big Stuff so I'm gonna add that just press square and then you can just hit quick start I'm gonna play on hard for you guys um I have I am getting pretty good at hard so let's go ahead and show you some of this hard and um you'll see on the screen um I'll just show you on the screen once it comes up obviously you're gonna have the three three buttons coming down just like you do on Guitar Hero whatever guitar here it's like four or five um so this is only three and it makes it a lot easier but there is a lot of more complicated things as well so if you're pressing button to skip that and then up in the top right you have your score and your multiplier will be in the bottom left along with the rewind button and how many notes you've hit this is a really light song as well it's not too hard see I'm using this button right here all right let's step it up a bit here we go we're gonna do a the hardest song on hard wait where is it the hardest song is well I'm not gonna say it's the hardest song but it is a really hard song um Wale looking at me and hey Mama so let's do this oops now I'm gonna do a quick start and we're gonna do it on hard all right guys here we go stepping it up a notch here let's go let's go loading times aren't too long it's just basic loading pretty much all right here we go skip this and here we go this is tough hey don't judge it I'm just I'm still learning okay I don't know he said well thank you see I'm not pro at this game I just messed it up big that time yeah I'm lost that part always messed me up yeah all right then just do so well I got two stars yeah didn't do so well but uh you know I'm still learning the game I've only played it for you know three four days a good solid two three days so I mean not bad 69 for the hardest song on hard one of the hardest songs on hard so that just shows you a little bit of difficulty and that's not even an expert so I mean there you go that's a little bit of it uh I'll just go ahead and head back to the main menu I unlock the new stars that's cool uh let me go ahead and show you some of the unlockables and things I'll let it say another thing in this game is you can't fail a song you can only get less you only get less Stars which stars unlock points and things for you so I'll just go ahead and go to a oops let me just go ahead down here I don't know I'll just do this one and just go okay okay and right here you have your character all right that's my character right now you can unlock new characters and you also unlock new gear uh like headphones decks deck Spin and samples headphones they're all featuring the um the Beats By Dre pretty much they also have audio and stuff like that so you can also pick different decks which the decks are really neat in this game look at that and there's all kinds of different ones and you can pick different uh deck skins as well make it different colors which mine is red it's like a cool red sweep so that's some of the unlockables and stuff so that's pretty cool and then after the pause menu I just pause it real quick so you can see this it gives you a countdown like three two one so you don't mess up see I started my time three months Euphoria now watch this time date all right that's some easy stuff let's show you some hard stuff this game does feature 93 original songs and over 100 songs so 93 of these songs you can't even find anywhere else except for in the actual DJ Hero game so that's pretty cool they're actually mixed by DJ Graham Master fresh and all kinds of other DJs I'm not really sure the names of them but um I know that the game makers probably made some of them as well and they actually really turn out really nice and if unless you like listen to country and rock all day long then you're pretty much gonna know you're pretty much gonna know a lot of these songs on here I mean they have a lot of Eminem Jay-Z um Wale Rihanna Gwen Stefani all kinds of uh people like that so I mean really cool if you if you start when you start playing it really fun game I was really I was really Amazed by this game it really surprised me of how good it was it's actually better than I thought it would be um I knew I was expecting a lot but I mean it just blew me out of proportion I mean it was a really really great game I definitely recommend it for anybody unless you're running low on budget or something like that you can't afford something like this and I would wait for you know Modern Warfare 2 or another one of those good games and the online feature is cool obviously uh and again this thing is not as full featured as rock band um but it is really full featured it has a lot of features um as you saw on the gameplay but again a size Full Features rock band because rock band you know it's it's pretty much like one of the best selling and one of the most hyped about and everything but this is definitely one of the best music games out there and I definitely recommend it to anybody so that's it guys thanks for watching my review on DJ Hero Renegade Edition I hope you guys enjoyed uh please rate comment subscribe and leave a comment Down Below on your thoughts on this if you're gonna get it if you already have it and whatnot and just your overall thoughts on it from the review or if you have it yourself so overall this game had really great graphics I really liked how it showed uh the DJ and the booth and it actually showed some cut shots of the crowd too as well which added a nice feature uh made you feel like you were actually a DJ and things like that um also the lights they were like hitting off lights there's different effects from the lights they were turning different colors streaming different ways and things it was really nice uh really cool features added like that again the songs are really high quality that you wish you'd probably have them on your iPod and there are 93 original tracks that can't be found anywhere else so that's another awesome feature just added into this so I really like the graphics on this game really nice presentation really easy to use the main menu is easy to navigate through everything is just I mean you can't really ask for more than this one of the best music games of the year and probably one of the best games of the year as well so that's it guys thanks for watchinghey guys how's it going it's Brandon here BB Zappa touchdown but today I'll be giving you a review on DJ Hero Renegade Edition uh with Jay-Z and Eminem and so that's the box that came in the Box you're looking at right there you can see just how big it is let me put my hand up there so you can compare it I could like fit two Arms of Mine across there and it also did come with the CD right here uh Jay-Z and Eminem CD 12 tracks from each of them so uh that's pretty cool it's the first time they've ever been included I was actually listening to the Jay-Z once that's why it's out and that has a little graphic right in there like a turntable or something so that's cool and then it says DJ Hero Renegade Edition right there so that's the box that came in really nicely packed as well um so that's really cool it did come with everything else which I will show you in a minute like the stand and the case and everything like that so up here we have my our stand um it is standing on the legs the four legs and it is on the full case I actually the first time I had like half of it it's actually supposed to be the full case so I have the full briefcase on there and if you go up under here you can see that that's where the legs screw in and uh things on the side right there and here is the actual turntable itself you have the your buttons right here along with your indicator just to tell you it's on and again this does take batteries uh included battery so that's a good thing um and obviously the batteries aren't going to run out too fast then you have your Euphoria button which is equivalent to the uh the um star power and Guitar Hero if you're familiar with Guitar Hero which I know a lot of you probably are and then here is the what's equivalent to the whammy bar and Guitar Hero that multiplies uh that boosts up your points and here's the turntable Crossfade mixer sorry about that then I put this little sticker right down here it came with some stickers I went ahead and put that on there and I also went ahead and put the Jay-Z presents DJ hair Renegade Edition says Rock Nation and Rockefeller up there and then you have just your basic turntable right there the blue red and green button if you turn it over you can't actually switch out if you're a left-handed person you can switch it from right here um there's somewhere on here right there this is a little latch right there you can just pull it out and uh switch it around so if you're a lefty you can put this part right here over on this side just in case you are a left-handed person so that's a cool feature it adds and also let me just add that when it is on the stand it it may seem at first uh kind of unstory if you use like one hand but when you have both hands on it and you're actually in the middle of a mix and you're doing a good uh song and everything it actually you can't even tell you you think it's like on a hard floor or something or it's like sitting on a flat surface because it really is really sturdy I was really surprised by that and let me add that this turntable is uh really um you can tell that it's really well built and really well made obviously with the gold plates it's a really nice feature added right there and just I mean this is a fingerprint magnet this black gloss right here and also go going all the way around kind of like a disco ball look um but it is really sturdy uh really well built um like it feels like almost full metal even though you know it's like plastic it really feels really nice so that's enough about the turntable um the case obviously a really nice all-around case right here it's full pretty much metal you have a little handle right down there full all-around case really nice briefcase just to put this in in case you're taking it to a party and whatnot which again is really great for parties so let's go ahead and get into the game itself and before I go ahead and show you that let me just add that this game is fantastic it is probably one of my favorite games of all time and definitely probably the best game I've played this year so let's go ahead and get into some of the gameplay and how this works alright I'm in this view once again where you can see both the screen and the controller so you can actually see me navigating and you can see it on the screen as well right here let me get you a better look at the screen you have right there um scratch the surface which this is all part of your career you just go over in your career and then you could create your own custom DJ setlist and guitar list or you can take the tutorial right there the custom guitar and DJ set list is cool because you can just uh you know start a quick game you don't have to it doesn't affect your career or anything like that and you can also play online which I haven't really played online yet because there's not too many people with the game um there's the quick list again and then that's the very last level of your career which I will unlock later so let me just do a quick play real fast you see if down there it says quick start you can do a quick start you have options continue and select if you go to options it's just stuff like this start chart calibration cheats and all that stuff leaderboards friend invites so let me just go ahead and get uh let me get out of that and I'm just gonna do a quick start all right let's uh let's do a custom DJ set list uh uh I already have some things in here so I'm gonna do the uh actually I'm gonna remove that I'm gonna go all the way up here I'm gonna do Master Ace and John uh Gene Knight born to roll Mr Big Stuff so I'm gonna add that just press square and then you can just hit quick start I'm gonna play on hard for you guys um I have I am getting pretty good at hard so let's go ahead and show you some of this hard and um you'll see on the screen um I'll just show you on the screen once it comes up obviously you're gonna have the three three buttons coming down just like you do on Guitar Hero whatever guitar here it's like four or five um so this is only three and it makes it a lot easier but there is a lot of more complicated things as well so if you're pressing button to skip that and then up in the top right you have your score and your multiplier will be in the bottom left along with the rewind button and how many notes you've hit this is a really light song as well it's not too hard see I'm using this button right here all right let's step it up a bit here we go we're gonna do a the hardest song on hard wait where is it the hardest song is well I'm not gonna say it's the hardest song but it is a really hard song um Wale looking at me and hey Mama so let's do this oops now I'm gonna do a quick start and we're gonna do it on hard all right guys here we go stepping it up a notch here let's go let's go loading times aren't too long it's just basic loading pretty much all right here we go skip this and here we go this is tough hey don't judge it I'm just I'm still learning okay I don't know he said well thank you see I'm not pro at this game I just messed it up big that time yeah I'm lost that part always messed me up yeah all right then just do so well I got two stars yeah didn't do so well but uh you know I'm still learning the game I've only played it for you know three four days a good solid two three days so I mean not bad 69 for the hardest song on hard one of the hardest songs on hard so that just shows you a little bit of difficulty and that's not even an expert so I mean there you go that's a little bit of it uh I'll just go ahead and head back to the main menu I unlock the new stars that's cool uh let me go ahead and show you some of the unlockables and things I'll let it say another thing in this game is you can't fail a song you can only get less you only get less Stars which stars unlock points and things for you so I'll just go ahead and go to a oops let me just go ahead down here I don't know I'll just do this one and just go okay okay and right here you have your character all right that's my character right now you can unlock new characters and you also unlock new gear uh like headphones decks deck Spin and samples headphones they're all featuring the um the Beats By Dre pretty much they also have audio and stuff like that so you can also pick different decks which the decks are really neat in this game look at that and there's all kinds of different ones and you can pick different uh deck skins as well make it different colors which mine is red it's like a cool red sweep so that's some of the unlockables and stuff so that's pretty cool and then after the pause menu I just pause it real quick so you can see this it gives you a countdown like three two one so you don't mess up see I started my time three months Euphoria now watch this time date all right that's some easy stuff let's show you some hard stuff this game does feature 93 original songs and over 100 songs so 93 of these songs you can't even find anywhere else except for in the actual DJ Hero game so that's pretty cool they're actually mixed by DJ Graham Master fresh and all kinds of other DJs I'm not really sure the names of them but um I know that the game makers probably made some of them as well and they actually really turn out really nice and if unless you like listen to country and rock all day long then you're pretty much gonna know you're pretty much gonna know a lot of these songs on here I mean they have a lot of Eminem Jay-Z um Wale Rihanna Gwen Stefani all kinds of uh people like that so I mean really cool if you if you start when you start playing it really fun game I was really I was really Amazed by this game it really surprised me of how good it was it's actually better than I thought it would be um I knew I was expecting a lot but I mean it just blew me out of proportion I mean it was a really really great game I definitely recommend it for anybody unless you're running low on budget or something like that you can't afford something like this and I would wait for you know Modern Warfare 2 or another one of those good games and the online feature is cool obviously uh and again this thing is not as full featured as rock band um but it is really full featured it has a lot of features um as you saw on the gameplay but again a size Full Features rock band because rock band you know it's it's pretty much like one of the best selling and one of the most hyped about and everything but this is definitely one of the best music games out there and I definitely recommend it to anybody so that's it guys thanks for watching my review on DJ Hero Renegade Edition I hope you guys enjoyed uh please rate comment subscribe and leave a comment Down Below on your thoughts on this if you're gonna get it if you already have it and whatnot and just your overall thoughts on it from the review or if you have it yourself so overall this game had really great graphics I really liked how it showed uh the DJ and the booth and it actually showed some cut shots of the crowd too as well which added a nice feature uh made you feel like you were actually a DJ and things like that um also the lights they were like hitting off lights there's different effects from the lights they were turning different colors streaming different ways and things it was really nice uh really cool features added like that again the songs are really high quality that you wish you'd probably have them on your iPod and there are 93 original tracks that can't be found anywhere else so that's another awesome feature just added into this so I really like the graphics on this game really nice presentation really easy to use the main menu is easy to navigate through everything is just I mean you can't really ask for more than this one of the best music games of the year and probably one of the best games of the year as well so that's it guys thanks for watching\n"