Rock Band 2 vs Guitar Hero World Tour
Ever since their first Guitar Hero game release, Activision and RedOctane, publishers of Guitar Hero have been the top players in the music game industry, until just 2 years after their first game, Rock Band was released into America, this then became a mighty competitor.
Harmonix were the original developers of Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero 2, but after the release of Guitar Hero 2, Harmonix moved onto a new publisher, MTV Games and EA to see if they could find bigger better thigns, which they did. After the old developers, Harmonix left, new guys Neversoft moved in and started to create a new game, Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock, this was then released in the later part of 2007. The game proved to be a winner, until later that year, Harmonix came back into the business with their new game Rock Band. This game featured a whole new range of instruments including a guitar, drum set, bass and mic.
After a year of Rock Band being release, the competition started again because in November 2008, both publishers, Activision and EA both released a new music game into the market, just in time for Christmas. Activision has Guitar Hero World Tour and EA have Rock Band 2, let the battle commence.
For Guitar Hero, this was a whole new venture for them, a new range of different instruments that they had never made before, but after seeing the end result, it was clear that they hadn’t cut any corners. Their new drum set has 5 pads and a peddle whereas the Rock Band kit features only 4 pads and a peddle, their guitar also features a new touch bar which allows finger tapping during guitar solos. Aswell as a whole new range of shiny instruments, the game features a music maker where you can create and share your own songs.
From the Rock Band 2 side, Harmonix have not changed the instrument set up much. They have improved the drum set by making it velocity sensitive, basically the harder you hit the pad the louder the sound in game makes, they also changed the foot peddle to metal as people found they broke the plastic one. Apart from a few tweaks, not alot has changed instrument wise.
On the actual game side of things, they haven’t got a music maker, however, they do have one great thing that Guitar Hero does not; a huge selection of downloadable songs on top of their 80+ song set list. This also gets better, any songs that you have already downloaded for Rock Band 1, are still compatible with Rock Band 2 and appear on the set list when you load up the game. Another advantage is that for a small fee, under $5, you can transfer almost all of the 70+ Rock Band 1 songs onto Rock Band 2, giving you a minimum of 160 songs on Rock Band 2.
Now that the advantages to each game have been said, now comes the difficult part, deciding which one to get. With Christmas closing in, many people will just be choosing one game rather than both, plus many people will lack the space for 2 sets of instruments.
As both instrument sets are compatible with both games, many people will have to choose whether they want the larger and more expandable set list of Rock Band, or the new features and suited up instruments of Guitar Hero.
Although it’s a totally open stage, it’s hard to tell which game will come out on top. I personally prefer Rock Band 2 over Guitar Hero World Tour simply because of the very expandable set list and the layout of the srceen.
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