You’ll be in rock-and-roll paradise with Guitar Hero World Tour. The game has advanced modes, options and tools for your rocking pleasure. Enjoy a vast amount of master recordings from some of the biggest acts of all time, including Van Halen, Linkin Park, the Eagles, Sublime and more. The game will also offer significantly more localized downloadable music than ever before. Guitar Hero World Tour gives you creative license to fully customize everything from characters’ appearances and instruments to the band’s logo and album covers. The innovative Music Studio lets you compose, record, edit and share music. The hard-hitting Battle of the Bands mode lets up to eight players get in on the mayhem. Jam like a pro and show off your talents like a true superstar.
Single-player Career mode provides a branching venue progression
User Reviews
5 Stars Get ready to rock!!!!!!!!!
This is actually a review for the band kit. I had lost interest in the Guitar Hero series when part 3 dropped cuz they had took the fun out of it by making it frustratingly(sic) difficult to where I didn’t even want to play anymore and jumped the Rock Band train, but with world tour my faith in the series might be renewed. Obivously the major reason why people want to play GH4 is the new drums or at least that was one of my reasons and they did not disappoint. Compared to RB’s drums, GH4′s feel more natural and felt more like my actual drums. So far the game plays out like the others in the series career consists of playing songs one after another but now they are usually grouped into a couple of songs at a time and then an encore, while some sets you must actually purchase to play them with the money you earn in the game. Character creation is present a’la Rock Band, personally I like RB’s better and you can customize the original characters. One thing that I liked was that there were finally some songs that I had been longing for since GH first hit. Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Korn, Tool to name a few, its a pretty good song list (84 songs in all, same as RB2) not to mention the brand new music creator. I tried it out, but its a little too complex for me to grasp, but luckly if you have xbox live you can download songs other people have made. Some of them I have downloaded have been pretty awesome, someone even made the themes from Mario and Zelda! Overall pretty fun game its hard for me to choose which one I like better GH4 or RB2, just try them both out and see for yourself. \m/ \m/
5 Stars Best Guitar Hero Ever
After playing it today for first time ( I have the kit that includes the guitar) I instantly reached the conclusion that Guitar Hero World Tour is by far and away the best rhythm game available on the market today, was worth the wait, Guitar Hero is way better than Rock Band. Guitar Hero delivers perfectly, in my opinion it has everything I wanted out of a guitar rhythm game: great peripherals and fun-to-play music. Jamming with Ozzy Osbourne was amazing. In general sound quality and very large and song choice is second-to-none. New and improved customizable avatar was a nice addition. Overall Guitar Hero also has superb game play options co-op, face-off, battles, and several online modes.
1 Star The Beginning of the End for Music Games
I have been an avid player of music games since even before the Guitar Hero phenomenon began, and I haven’t missed a console entry to the series since it began. I also avidly play its competing series, Rock Band, but don’t mistake me for preferring one over the other. Each has their strengths and weaknesses, and the GH series has given my family and I much enjoyment over the past few years. That’s why it really pains me to say that this is such a let down.
I will begin by saying that I did only rent it, therefore I used my RB drumset (which worked perfectly well, mind you), limiting me from playing them on the five-pad drum set that comes in the boxset and also the new touch-pad guitar. Despite this, I was able to play the game smoothly and enjoy what it had to offer. That’s where the problem is: it doesn’t have much that is exciting to offer. Almost a quarter of the songs on the disc were included in Rock Band 2, which I have already completed. Also, a very good number of songs on the disc are sung in other languages. I know this creates a challenge for the vocalist, but it robs the fun. Plus, the live version of a long-requested song for the series, Sweet Home Alabama, is terrible. Lastly, many of the other songs are from artists you know but aren’t necessarily their best tracks or songs that don’t really fit into the GH mold. Love Removal Machine by The Cult, and About A Girl by Nirvana? Really, they’re supposed to be fun? On The Road Again? What was Neversoft thinking (And I actually like that song)? The only fun tracks to me, while I know it’s subjective, were Hot For Teacher, What I’ve Done, Freak On A Leash, Hotel California, Crazy Train, Rebel Yell, The Joker, & Beat It. Granted, many of the tracks in the game, while fun, weren’t fresh to me because I had downloaded them as RB DLC. This may be okay for the GH fanbase, because many don’t own RB. If you’ve never played RB, you might find some enjoyment in this game; but otherwise, the flawed singing mechanic forces you to sing like a robot if you want to excel, which makes singing a chore. The new Purple String mechanic in Guitar mode makes challenging segments way too easy, and the drum patterns seem easier than RB. The only design change that I really like is the sixth note for the Bass, achieved by simply strumming without pressing a fret; it can keep you on your toes.
I know each product should be judged on its own merits, but Neversoft chose to follow the trail blazed by Harmonix, so comparisons are valid. This leads to my conclusion: Why does Guitar Hero have to become like Rock Band? I enjoy GH because of its challenging guitar play, but why must they try to out-do RB. They could both co-exist, but now I think they will overglut the market, leading to consumers growing tired of them both. I don’t need a living room full of different “fake” instruments; I don’t have the room. I will give Neversoft credit for attempting a music creator, but its MIDI-like sounds are frankly annoying and for the long haul will only attract the hardest of the hardcore to try and create the most difficult track ever. To its credit, the framerate never once chugged, but distaste for the character models and the abundance of in-game advertising are just small reasons that contribute to the overall reason that I really hate for this game to go so bad. I believe that with RB, GH, and soon-to-be Rock Revolution (don’t get me started!), consumers, nationwide, are going to grow weary of music games within the next two years, but I could be wrong.
In closing, buy if you haven’t played any Rock Band. The game is fun if you’ve never played many of the included songs. Otherwise, I would say avoid or, for the curious like me, give it a rent.
4 Stars Guitar Hero World Tour
Great new game, although seems a little more challenging, should have better song selection & sucks that there are some song on this game that are also on rock band 2!!!!
3 Stars Not for a vocalist.
I loved the Guitar Hero franchise up until GH2. I didn’t really care for GH3 but I still bought it because it was music. But once RockBand came out it has moved on to collect dust on my shelf. I have played a good bit of RB2 and at one point was working to keep in the top 100 on the leader boards for vocals. I like to sing and I’m pretty good at it. I picked up Guitar Hero world tour because I had heard it was a band game not a guitar game that can bore and frustrate drummers and vocalist alike.
I’ll start with the drums. There was no middle ground. Medium was either so slowly paced that the poor drummer in our band, we play once RB(2) every Tuesday, was playing all of the notes with one had. He was able to flip me the bird at one point for at least a good minute before returning to his part.
As for the vocals GH likes to count streaks and each correct note as a streak of 2 and 3 and so on. While this plays out great for the rest of the instruments it really isn’t good for the singer in the band. Also you’re forced to hit each note like a robot. So if you can’t sing exactly like the person who performed the song then you’ll have some problems.
The guitar parts are quite nice. The guitarist said there was quite a bit of butter in the notes and really enjoyed it. But that was one of the people in the group. Once we forced him to switch instruments, something we do from time to time to shake things up, he too felt our pain.
We played with some of the other music features and while it was cool to hear a user composed Super Mario Bro’s theme, I could get the same pleasure listening to midi files. For the most part the fills and beats sounded like a beginner’s keyboard that you might have gotten in the 80′s on Christmas morning.
If you play Guitar and from time to time have friends over to play other parts it’s OK. This isn’t a true multi-player game this is a Guitar game that can have friends over for the night for a sleep over.
