GAME: Guitar Hero World Tour

I recently bought the newest Guitar Hero game, Guitar Hero World Tour. I mostly bought it for some extra songs and for the music creator however the game managed to have so other nice things about it. For starters let me describe the basics. GHWT is the first GH to include the full band (you can read my demo review from before for some more info). This is most likely to compete with Rock Band. It does not match to RB’s experience and style but it gets decently close. I am not going to talk about the instruments since I already talked about them in the demo review. So far for the game I’ve used my Les Paul and RB microphone (my drum’s foot pedal is broken). So now I’m gonna start by talking about the songs. GHWT has a lot of the same songs that RB2 has. I don’t know who copied who but I don’t really care. One of the major reasons I bought GHWT was for Jimmy Hendrix tracks, Hotel California, and Crazy Train (Beat It isn’t that bad either). I hope that GHWT will continue to add more songs along these artists for downloads. Besides that, the entire set list is all master tracks (a definite first for GH). One thing that did majorly disappoint me was the lack of an epically difficult song. It was Jordan for GH2, Dragonforce for GH3, and the best we got was Satch Boogie by Joe Satriani. I’m not saying its not hard, jeez it took me 3 tries but I STILL can’t beat Jordan (can beat Dragonforce!!!!). I’m already through with the whole entire guitar portion of the game after playing about 5-6 hours at the most. Granted now I want to run through it on co-op with my friend but it shouldn’t be this easy!!! GH 2 took me 5 months to master on expert (granted that was my first time playing it ever and I started on Medium) but then GH 3 only took me 2-3 weeks. Also, GH: Aerosmith also only took me 4-5 Hours and that was because it took a while to get through the songs (I never failed any single song in that game). So far the only songs I’ve failed in this game are Satch Boogie and Hot for Teacher (which is still pretty damn hard too!). But moving on to the online play. GHWT is just as hard as GH3 to find one single match (it usually takes like a while to find someone to play with!). I still can’t ever find a band to play with! It always ends up saying that no bands were found (yeah right). In general, online is a hassle that I rarely ever go to. Next let me move onto game play. The setup is still the same however now the multiplier is attached to the highway on the right and its really small. Some things that have been added are open notes for bass. It looks like a bar strait across the highway and you just strum without holding the frets down. Another thing is (what I like to call) the Adders. These are just pretty much when you are required to hold a note and play other notes above it (or add to a chord). Those who play DDR know what they are. In my opinion the open notes are pointless and annoying. As for the adders, they are ok and I don’t really mind them. Finally let me talk about the creation system in the game. The build-a-rocker is really simple if you’ve ever played any of the Tony Hawk games in that you get a high level of customization. The instrument creator is also fun and as you play along you get new parts to add to your instrument (my guitar looks like a strat with my initials inscribed into the body a la Stevie Ray Vaughn). Finally the song creator is really innovative. So far I’ve made 3 songs, 2 of them being serious. The system is hard to get at first but eventually it gets really easy to use. You are given the option to create a drum, rhythm, bass, lead, keyboard part to the song or you can set a bass and drum line with tempos and styles and just jam out to those. My first serious song sounds cheesy and simple (it also repeats riffs a lot of times). However my second song where I had more experience was when I created a “What is Love” cover (it’s mostly solos). I do still kind of wish that the song creator would include a way to create a vocals part. All in all the game is fun but now that I beat it, I’m going to go back to RB2 (or Gears of War 2 (Review coming soon!!)). I would recommend renting it to the less serious players but if you enjoy the genre I would recommend purchasing the game (and if you really want to, buy the whole bundle but watch out for the instruments).

 

Guitar Hero World Tour

+Fun Creation system

+Great Set list

-Online is annoying to use

-Repeats RB2 set list

-Not everything added is really fun

 

GRADE (Out of 10): 8.0

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