During Activision’s not-E3 press conference yesterday, a developer for Guitar Hero: World Tour stated that non-Guitar Hero instruments will work with the next Guitar Hero game. MTV Multiplayer then confirmed with Activision that the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero: World Tour will indeed work with the first Rock Band instruments. No word on whether or not Rock Revolution or Rock Band 2 instruments will work since they're not out yet.
So far, only the Xbox 360 version compatibility is being talked about as Activision won’t say if the other platforms will get the same treatment. The cross compatibility has actually already started with Guitar Hero: Aerosmith as there was an auto-download for the Xbox 360 version at some point that should make Rock Band guitars work with the game right now.
So this pretty much leveled the Rock Band 2 vs Guitar Hero: World Tour playing field. Will you be getting Guitar Hero: World Tour now that the instruments are cross compatible (for the Xbox 360 at least)?
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4:42 PM on 07.16.2008
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Whatever, I might pick it up, but whatever company decides to put in a double bass pedal in the next installment is my winnner.
Plus, I hate Activision and desperately want to see GH4 fail.
Now I don't have to shell out 200 bucks to get both sets of peripherals. I wasn't looking forward to choosing between Hotel California and Pinball Wizard.
And I must be the only gamer who actually preferred the GH controllers. I hated the clicky buttons and non-clicky strum bar of the Rock Band model.
What I REALLY want to know is whether RB 2 will support GH:WT's instruments, because I want a more realistic drum kit. Plus, I am apparently the second person (after Madness) that prefers GH's guitars to the guitar from the original RB.
I think it's great that the two brands are pushing each other. RB 2's feature of letting you access your previous RB downloads is freaking fantastic. I care about that much more than "creating" music. Hopefully future iterations of GH will do the same (I know there isn't much hope for it yet, since none of the songs had vocals or drums previously).
Over on the wired blog Activision is quoted as saying that if it detects the 4 pad + 1 pedal RB controller (instead of the 5 pad + 1 pedal GH:WT controller) it will downsize the board to be only 4 pads wide.
Probably combining Green + Orange into just Green.
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/xbox-rock-band.html
"Here's how it'll work. Speaking with Bright after the conference, I found out that the game's five-button drum track, shown above center, will be compressed down to four inputs if a Rock Band drum controller is inserted."
those peripherals are really expensives to not be cross complatibles... kudos for activision.
I'm curious about the Guitar Hero music creation and that weird neck on the guitar.
I have a savings plan for all my RB/GH purchases, by the time each game comes out I'll have saved enough cash to buy both full sets. Anything left over goes to DLC assuming I don't have to purchase both full sets. :)