Harmonix experiments with a ‘musical first-person shooter’ with Chroma

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.

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.