Real rockstars tell us what they think of Guitar Hero World Tour's drums

There is no way this can beat rockband with RB's selection of music at RB's price point for each track. I have seen many at my work return GH3 sheerly for the price of the downloadable tracks and track selection and then turn around and get rockband. While i feel GH's drumset is better the songs and song quality is what makes the games and that is something GH can't beat. RB is designed to be a platform GH is designed to cash in on you every year.

*yawn*

Anyone know the name of the first song played (the guitar part)? Please ?

For me, RB has been about people coming together and having fun just jamming, but the guitar notes were much more fun on GH3. From what I've heard, for RB they aimed to make the notes feel more "real" than GH3. But if I wanted more realism I'd play a real guitar.


As for GH3, it's still a blast for me to play. With World Tour, I think it will be much more fun all around if they can make the other instruments as good as the guitar. And they seem to be improving on a lot of things. I hope the multiplayer is as good, or better than RB. And that the single player is still enjoyable.

However, they do need a good price point, and they should definatly have much more DLC for this installment


So yeah, GH3 = Better Solo play, RB = Better multiplayer play.

@emotoaster theres a fine line between difficulty and artifically bumping up difficulty by mapping more than one instrument on the guitar track like Neversoft did with GH3 see this comparison video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=yFRA0d3tZY4) and carefully look at the different guitar mappings.

i want GHIV...not World tour...i want guitar,not a 190$ pack

Also, Its really a detriment to my obsession with Rock Band when I can identify the drum part that you hear Chad Smith play as the lead in to "Vasoline" by STP.

Selling point for me:

If World Tour is released here in Australia before Rock Band I'm sold. I'm sure I'll be paying about $500 AUD for either but oh well.

Is there some sort of unwritten law that states that anyone with the name Chad is required to be made of pure win and awesome?

Man, that's cool. I really don't want to buy another fake drum set, but if the song list is good I may a return to the Guitar Hero Franchise.

Until then I'll keep rocking my Rock Band's fake set.

Will Ferrell took method acting to a whole new level when he joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Chad Smith is pure sweetness. As for GH:WT, I don't know. Activision seems to be reacting more than proacting, and that could cause a ton of problems in the future.

I'm sure they'll still manage to cram in those totally out of place 'boss' fights, and random notes that aren't actually in the song. Finally, you can play phantom frets of your favourite songs - with friends! :D

If the whole bundle really costs $190, I won’t be picking it up, and frankly, if the guitar parts are as ridiculously stupid as they were in GH III, then screw it.

fuck a nigga named rock band

I like the cymbals. It's something that's really missing from the crappy Rock Band drumkit.

@Gyno Cobra

Actually the drum part he was playing was from 'Give It Away' by his own band, the chili peppers. But, now that you mention it, it does sound like Vasoline.

Goes to show the redundancy of Rock and Roll.

@Batty - Yeah, they're going to be substandard. How else are they going to make money? The one thing that isn't really up for debate is the track list. Definite mediocrity, given the GHIII track list, and Activision's most questionable decision to give Aerosmith their own game. At least they've got a lockdown on the 40-something mullet crowd.

The drum set is going to be complicated enough to fail often. The addition of pressure sensitive drum pads is just another point of failure. You're matching a note on screen, not playing the drums, so all you need is on or off, not four shades of gray. I also know that those cymbals are going to snap off. Oh wait, you mean Chad Smith played it for ten minutes and it didn't break? That means it'll certainly take the ham-fisted wailings of over-eager gamers for hours and hours and hours on end. The specialization of the cymbals is probably going to bite them in the ass. They have two pads that they can only use for cymbals and three pads they can only use for drums, instead of four pads that can change roles in the middle of the song. I think this illustrates even further that Activision/neversoft have no idea what they're doing unless they're copying Harmonix.

How many POSITIVE things has Activision/Neversoft added to the Guitar Hero franchise?

By my count, none.

Heh. Look at all the RB fanboyx

Wow, vanilla gorilla, thanks for pointing out that my distaste with activision isn't related to the cheezy graphical "update" GHIII got, or the tacked-on, idiotic boss battles, or the less-than-good tracklist, but rather my own inferior skills. From now on, you should write all my comments. You're amazing.

Being a RB fanboy makes far more sense than defending Activi$ion while they slaughter the most successful music game franchise in history.