After Rock Band stole music game headlines last year with its drum kit and expanded options, the folks at Activision knew they had to strike back big. Guitar Hero World Tour marks a giant leap forward for the franchise that jumpstarted the music game craze, featuring a drum kit and microphone but also a new guitar design and the ability to build your own tracks in a virtual studio.
The drum kit contains three drum pads and two virtual cymbals, which makes the percussion experience all the more realistic. The pads themselves are also velocity-sensitive, so the harder you hit them, the louder they sound. The new guitars are especially impressive: there’s a touch-sensitive patch on the neck that allows for sliding solos and more realistic hammer-ons, which allows players to look more and more like Eddie Van Halen (but hopefully with better dental work).
As for the song lineup, there’s an excellent balance between stone-cold classics like Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” (which is incredibly difficult to sing), Jimi Hendrix’s “The Wind Cries Mary” (which is equally difficult to drum) and Van Halen’s “Hot For Teacher” along newer hits by Tokio Hotel and the Mars Volta. But the most unique aspect of Guitar Hero World Tour lies in the new studio mode, which lets you put down up to five tracks on a single song, meaning you can birth anything from a minimal drum and bass track to a Neil Young-esque three guitar attack. Once those songs are recorded, players will be able to upload them and let the online community go to town on them. Guitar Hero World Tour hits stores on October 26.
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. cant wait for rock band. gonna be the best game of 2008 by far
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