{"id":62060,"date":"2014-02-18T10:44:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T08:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=62060"},"modified":"2014-02-18T10:45:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T08:45:37","slug":"chroma-the-musical-first-person-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/62060-chroma-the-musical-first-person-shooter","title":{"rendered":"Chroma: the musical first person shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harmonix, in association with Hidden Path Entertainment, has revealed a new spin on the FPS genre &#8211; a free to play musical FPS.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine shooting to the beat with multiple classes, primary and secondary weapons, and all done during a time-based challenge. Think Rock Band with guns.<\/p>\n<p>In Chroma everything you do can be done better if timed perfectly to the beat: aiming down your sights and shooting at the perfect time will result in a one-hit kill; jump at the perfect time and you will jump higher.<\/p>\n<p>The game relies heavily on timing your actions during some awesome set-beat stages &#8211; it&#8217;s like a party with guns.<\/p>\n<p>Chroma has a slick looking futuristic theme, with neon lights and laser beams. The guns look like something out of Star Wars.<\/p>\n<p>Harmonix has revealed that the game will release later this year, but you can <a title=\"Chroma Alpha\" href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/ChromaAlphaSignup\" target=\"_blank\">sign up now for closed Alpha testing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3QZhsTRk-ic?rel=0\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62050-mass-murderer-threatens-hunger-strike-for-better-gaming-console.html\">Mass murderer threatens hunger strike for better gaming console<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62032-titanfall-number-of-maps-game-modes-discovered.html\">Titanfall: number of maps, game modes discovered<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62048-make-games-sa-raises-bursary-for-underprivileged-game-dev-students.html\">Make Games SA raises bursary for underprivileged game dev students<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62031-thief-17-minute-mission-playthrough-video.html\">Thief: 17 minute mission playthrough video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harmonix, in association with Hidden Path Entertainment, has revealed a new spin on the FPS genre &#8211; a free to play musical FPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":62061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12029,3214,21,699],"class_list":["post-62060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-chroma","tag-harmonix","tag-headline","tag-hidden-path-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}