Guitar Hero is coming back, returning from a five-year absence. The game will receive some changes, including a newly designed guitar and better visuals, USA Today reports.

Guitar Hero Live will introduce a new guitar, designed to replicate an actual guitar. Instead of the five colors that ranged from the top of the guitar neck to about the middle of it, the new guitar will feature a compact six button layout. The six buttons will be two rows of three buttons that will have players using their index, middle and ring fingers.

When the game debuts this fall, there will be more mediums for players to use it. The game will be playable on mobile and portable devices as well as Playstation 4, Playstation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii U.

If the television is busy in a player's home, they can take their guitar into another room and play the game on their mobile device or tablet. The game will even be playable without a console video game system, on users' phones through a television.

In 2008, music games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band helped music games sales reach almost $2 billion. Despite more instruments and vocals, games that followed were not as successful.

Noticing the sales trend was slowing down, 2010 was the last time Activision put out a new Guitar Hero game with Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.

During its peak, Guitar Hero titles earned more than $1 billion in revenue each year, Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia estimated in a note Monday. Initially, Bhatia expects more modest numbers with the relaunch of Guitar Hero.

Activision looked for help from the team at U.K.-based FreeStyleGames when it decided to bring the game back.

"We starting thinking about what was it about Guitar Hero that made it the game phenomenon that it became," said Jamie Jackson, the creative director and studio head at FreeStyleGames. "The one common theme that kept coming up was ... it makes me feel like a rock star."

Jackson said they wanted "everyone to feel like a rock star."

To make the game feel more like playing a real guitar, the buttons were changed. The onscreen notes were changed to look like guitar picks either pointing up or down. The guitar picks pointing down are easier to play, using the lower row of buttons, and the guitar picks pointing up are harder to play, forcing the player to stretch their fingers to the top row of buttons.

The onscreen performances of Guitar Hero will get a refresher. Instead of using the 3-D characters, the game recorded an actual band playing the songs and the crowd reactions as well, according to The Verge.

The game includes songs from Fall Out Boy, The Black Keys, Green Day, Ed Sheeran and more. Older songs will also be included.

Guitar Hero Live is expected to be released this fall.