Harmonix hopes that Chroma will be a groundbreaking game that combines music with a first-person shooter video game. It is a wonderfully creative, experimental, but very risky title that will throw video game fans for a loop. Chroma could be one of the craziest games ever created.
Harmonix’s Chroma
The game is the brainchild of a studio that pioneered music games like Dance Central, Rock Band, and Guitar Hero. If any game studio can pull off a music-driven shooter game, it’s Harmonix. But that’s a big if. I tried out a preview version of Chroma, and it isn’t intuitive. You have to marry your own ear for music with your instincts for shooting everything that moves in a combat game.
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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.