Unlike the Guitar Hero series, by default there is no penalty for missing notes, aside from breaking a combo, making it impossible to fail a song, although there is an option to enable this.įor guitar, players must hold specific buttons that line up with combinations of five colored notes that appear on the screen on a 'highway or some players refer to as a 'fretboard' as would be on a real guitar. Gameplay involves hitting colored notes in time to songs Clone Hero allows players to use any PC-compatible controller from the Guitar Hero or Rock Band franchises, as well as a keyboard or any other input device. Clone Hero, by design, features nearly identical gameplay to Guitar Hero, and uses GUI assets from Guitar Hero games.