Oh NOooooooes!
Kurt Cobains blocky looking avatar singing a Jonas Brother song!
Why of ALL the things wrong with video games, society, and the freaking WORLD right now, THIS is what people are going to get sand in their collective wah-ginas over? THIS?
It's a GAME! Why are people so butt-hurt?!
It's no better or worse than Kirk/Spock gay fan fiction. Don't like it, don't PLAY it.
But when people start in with the "we should re-lock him, his LIKENESS shouldn't be used for ANYTHING but HIS songs which were meaningful and anti-corporate" in a music video game that is a shining example of "corporate" to begin with (it's guitar hero 5 for love's sake!) I think it's too much.
Honestly, Nirvana was great back in the day, but unlike greats like Hendrix and such Iconic musicians, I don't feel Nirvana has lasting appeal that spans generations. In fact, Nirvana to me goes right into that niche of 90's grunge bands that were part and parcel doing the SAME thing! His music was not any more "visionary" than the Spin Doctors or Soundgarden or Smashing Pumpkins. It was something for it's time, but in another 10 years, most people would have FORGOTTEN about Nirvana, and really the only thing that keeps us remembering is the WAY he died. Tragic, yes, but honestly I have little respect for anybody that takes their own life. Sorry, thats a FAIL to me. Hell he wasnt even a great guitarist... almost EVERYTHING he wrote revolved around the same 2 or 3 chords, the only ones he ever mastered... cobain was an autodictat... self taught... the dude couldnt even tune and re-string his own GUITAR.
I don't even really like the guitar hero games, but i'll think i'll go out and buy a copy, just so i can have a version with him unlocked to sing Billy Idol's Dancing with myself every so often for my own personal amusement before Activision caves in to pressure and "re-locks" him.
After they do so, I will no longer have an interest in the franchise whatsoever.