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Product DescriptionStart a Band…the Guitar Hero Way
Guitar Hero World Tour transforms music gaming by expanding Guitar Hero’s signature guitar gameplay into a cooperative band experience that combines advanced wireless instruments with online and offline gameplay modes including online Band Career and 8-player “Battle of the Bands,” which allows two full bands to compete head-to-head online. The game features a Music Studio music creator that lets players compose, record, edit and share their own rock ‘n’ roll anthems.
*Note: The instruments are sold seperately.
Be the Next Great Songwriter
Music Studio lets players express their musical creativity by giving them access to a full complement of tools to create digital music from scratch utilizing the guitar controller and drum kit. Players can create their tracks and then play them in-game or share the recordings with the entire Guitar Hero community through GHTunes. GHTunes allows other gamers from around the world to download and play the community’s original tracks. Available to Xbox 360 gamers is Line 6’s guitar tone technology, enabling them to use amps, cabs, and effects from the Line 6 POD.
Create the Band
Budding rock stars can live out their rock ‘n’ roll fantasies by playing either a single instrument or any combination of instruments, in addition to the full band experience. When rocking as part of a band, up to four players can jam together in quickplay or as they progress through a career. Both band and single-player careers feature non-linear progression giving artists the option to change difficulty and instruments with a variety of different gigs available at any time.
Never Jam Solo Again
Virtual musicians in need of band mates can take their careers online forming worldwide ensembles so no rock star ever has to play a gig solo. Plus, GHWT adds a “Battle of the Bands” modes, which allows eight players to join online and challenge each other band-to-band to establish global supremacy.
Customize Everything
The character creator allows gamers to create a rock star with style as unique as their own. Absolute customization from the clothes, to the facial and body structure, to the tattoos and accessories, players are encouraged to unleash their inner rock legend. The Rock Star Creator doesn’t just allow players to build the ultimate rock god; the in-depth creators include the ability to customize guitars, drums and microphones. Adding yet another layer of personalization, gamers can create custom logos for their instruments, band, or album covers.
A Set List for the Ages
The Guitar Hero World Tour set list is comprised entirely of master recordings from some of the greatest artists of all-time including Van Halen, Linkin Park, The Eagles, and Sublime. There are over 85 tracks, plus frequent downloadable singles and track packs. In addition to the killer track list, the game will feature rock icons such as Hayley Williams of Paramore and Travis Barker of +44 and blink-182.
The Full Set List
- 311 – “Beautiful Disaster”
- 30 Seconds To Mars – “The Kill”
- Airbourne – “Too Much Too Young”
- The Allman Brothers Band – “Ramblin’ Man”
- Anouk – “Good God”
- The Answer – “Never Too Late”
- At The Drive-In – “One Armed Scissor”
- Beastie Boys – “No Sleep Till Brooklyn”
- Beatsteaks – “Hail to the Freaks”
- Billy Idol – “Rebel Yell”
- Black Label Society – “Stillborn”
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – “Weapon of Choice”
- blink-182 – “Dammit”
- Blondie – “One Way or Another”
- Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – “Hollywood Nights”
- Bon Jovi – “Livin’ On A Prayer”
- Bullet For My Valentine – “Scream Aim Fire”
- Coldplay – “Shiver”
- Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Up Around The Bend”
- The Cult – “Love Removal Machine”
- Dinosaur Jr. – “Feel The Pain”
- The Doors – “Love Me Two Times”
- Dream Theater – “Pull Me Under”
- The Eagles – “Hotel California”
- The Enemy – “Aggro”
- Filter – “Hey Man, Nice Shot”
- Fleetwood Mac – “Go Your Own Way”
- Foo Fighters – “Everlong”
- The Guess Who – “American Woman”
- Hush Puppies – “You’re Gonna Say Yeah!”
- Interpol – “Obstacle 1″
- Jane’s Addiction – “Mountain Song”
- Jimi Hendrix – “Purple Haze (Live)”
- Jimi Hendrix – “The Wind Cries Mary”
- Jimmy Eat World – “The Middle”
- Joe Satriani – “Satch Boogie”
- Kent – “Vinternoll2″
- Korn – “Freak On A Leash”
- Lacuna Coil – “Our Truth”
- Lenny Kravitz – “Are You Gonna Go My Way”
- Linkin Park – “What I’ve Done”
- The Living End – “Prisoner of Society”
- Los Lobos – “La Bamba”
- Lost Prophets – “Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)”
- Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Sweet Home Alabama (Live)”
- Mars Volta – “L’Via L’Viaquez”
- MC5’s Wayne Kramer – “Kick Out The Jams”
- Metallica – “Trapped Under Ice”
- Michael Jackson – “Beat It”
- Modest Mouse – “Float On”
- Motorhead – “Overkill”
- Muse – “Assassin”
- Negramaro – “Nuvole e Lenzuola”
- Nirvana – “About a Girl (Unplugged)”
- No Doubt – “Spiderwebs”
- NOFX – “Soul Doubt”
- Oasis – “Some Might Say”
- Ozzy Osbourne – “Crazy Train”
- Ozzy Osbourne – “Mr. Crowley”
- Paramore – “Misery Business”
- Pat Benatar – “Heartbreaker”
- R.E.M. – “The One I Love”
- Radio Futura – “Escuela De Calor”
- Rise Against – “Re-Education Through Labor”
- Sex Pistols – “Pretty Vacant”
- Silversun Pickups – “Lazy Eye”
- Smashing Pumpkins – “Today”
- Steely Dan – “Do It Again”
- Steve Miller Band – “The Joker”
- Sting – “Demolition Man (Live)”
- The Stone Roses – “Love Spreads”
- Stuck In The Sound – “Toy Boy”
- Sublime – “Santeria”
- Survivor – “Eye of the Tiger”
- System of a Down – “B.Y.O.B.”
- Ted Nugent – “Stranglehold”
- Ted Nugent’s Original Guitar Duel Recording
- Tokio Hotel – “Monsoon”
- Tool – “Parabola”
- Tool – “Schism”
- Tool – “Vicarious”
- Trust – “Antisocial”
- Van Halen – “Hot For Teacher”
- Willie Nelson – “On The Road Again”
- Wings – “Band on the Run”
- Zakk Wylde’s Original Guitar Duel Recording
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Guitar Hero is a great thereputic tool!
If more people sat down and played games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band instead of the violence based games it wouold make for a happier world.
Guitar Hero World Tour
For someone who is not anywhere close to being a teenager or a video gamer, Guitar Hero World Tour has succeeded in becoming something parents can do with their kids, almost as well as they can! It’s really something to actually be ASKED by your 17-year-old son to join the band! Kudos to the designers of this game! Not only can I now enjoy the songs I got into rock music for, but I am learning to love a lot of the ones that the latest generation are loving!
Pales in comparison to Rock Band 2
I love music games, the progression from Guitar Hero 2 to 3 and then the Rock Band franchise have all been bigger and better than the last. World Tour picks up where GH3 left off in many regards, now there is character creation, the “full band” setup, more downloadable content, etc.
These changes are welcome, but after Rock Band 1 and 2, its almost required that you have those features just to keep up. I didn’t buy the new guitar, but I like some of the new features of the instrument, like the increased size, the quieter strum bar, and the main fret buttons which feel quick and responsive. I don’t really like the upper neck/touch pad part, when playing sequences like “The Joker” it seems like a “cheat” to just slide your finger around. The fact that it actually makes it harder to play “normally” with your older Guitar Hero controllers (I’m still using the explorer from GH2!) is even more frustrating.
I play on Hard difficulty and it seems like they’ve ‘tightened’ up the hammer-on/pull-off so that you have to be much more precise (compared to GH3’s “button mashing”). I think Rock Band’s is precise enough, World Tour is almost evil in how precise you have to be some times. Similar complaint for the Rock Out feature- you have to really move the guitar to get the overdrive/star power engaged- ideally you could change the sensitivity for your own preference.
However, those changes are minor compared to the heart of the game: the music. And in this regard, Guitar Hero World Tour comes up short. Not because there aren’t enough songs, but the songs available are boring. Wings? Willy Nelson? Beastie Boys? (Rock Band is guilty of having a Beastie’s song too) Lots of songs that repeat too much, or quite simply are dull. I think the problem is that these are popular songs to listen to, but when you have to play “The Joker” its just not as cool as over-emphasizing the chorus as you sing along to the jukebox. It seems like if its not catering to “hardcore” fans with songs like Tool, its catering to people in their 30s or 40s (sorry oldfolks.) Unfortunately, Tool songs are in the neighborhood of 8 minutes (or in music game terms: an eternity) I’m not saying Tool is boring, but having to play Tool on Guitar Hero IS boring.
I don’t think it helps matters that visually, Guitar Hero is an uglier game than Rock Band. The characters look like monstrous marionettes with frightening shark-mouths when they sing. Its like a bizarre mannequin dance party in hell. I created a female character and felt like I was designing an alien dressed as a human. If you plan on playing for an hour, you want something pleasing to look at- which World Tour fails at. Additionally, the venue design is weak, and the “encore” animation in which “something happens” (like fireworks or ghosts or something else stupid) changes the venue slightly, like it makes any difference at all- just slows down getting through the game and getting onto the next (boring) song.
The game is full of poor pacing, between the load times and dull songs, there’s little to love about World Tour. On top of it, Rock Band is heaping on downloadable content that has much of World Tour’s track list covered (if you care for so many dull songs). I was surprised that Guitar Hero took so many miscues all in one game.
One MASSIVE let down…
I’m a GH nerd, I’ve enjoyed the series since it hit the 360 but always wanted a little more. I wanted to see some artists in previous editions showcased such as 311, Tool, and Ted Nugent. I tracked the game’s development and when I saw those three artist listed I was quite amped for the release. I decided to rent before buying this one; had a gut feeling that this would be the one to kill the series for me.
I was right.
I took the day off from work and threw the disc in. Typical cartoony style menus meaning it looked like hot topic had their hands on it and engineered it for the local 14 yr old “emo” girl. Gag me. But I can overlook that, it’s a game after all. After I was done ridiculing the style to my fiance’s delight I started playing.
First track I really sunk my teeth into – so to speak – was Beautiful Disaster by 311. One of my favorite bands and songs, I had wanted this to be on a GH game for a while. On expert it was an absolute blast to play! Note placement, timing, tempo – it all felt sooooo right. I was thinking I should just go buy the game at that moment.
The next few tracks were lack luster and uninteresting to my, all were given a fair shake but were not actually fun to play. They were pre-cursors to Stanglehold by Ted Nugent.
Stranglehold is a guitar classic. Say what you will about Ted Nugent but that song is rock and roll gold. It’s just a bass heavy guitar opus in my opinion. A constant car shaker for me, love the tune. You can imagine how psyched I was. So the song starts off and I notice the guitar doesn’t sound right and the note placement doesn’t feel natural – whatever, it’s plastic guitar and it won’t be perfect, on to the next part of the song; the massive solo. That is where the game drops a fat turd on your expectations. It’s a cover tune. It’s not Ted shredding, it’s someone else. He’s not improvising, he’s missing notes all over the place. It sounds AWFUL. A gigantic dissapointment to me.
Now the game has paid out a highly expected track and destroyed another. It’s on even ground with me.
The Tool setlist came soon after. I’ve been a Tool fan for a while, I dig their work and was looking forward. ALL of the tracks felt akward and off in their notation ruining the setlist. The only saving grace was the backgrounds. They were inspired by Tool’s album art and videos. Those were absolutely gorgeous; well rendered, changed with the music. Fantastic right? Except for the execution of their tracks which is the core reason to consider a purchase.
I beat the game, the reamining tracks were mediocre. Rise Against had a good track on there and actually turned me on to the band with the song Re-Education through labor. Good stuff.
So I moved onto the music creator, another aspect I was psyched for. It sucks – plain and simple. I spent the next day on this music studio. The guitar tracks do not really sound like guitars for the most part. The interface itself is difficult to navigate through. The time/note limits to created tracks are another dissapointment. You are NOT permitted to covered any copyrighted tracks. Why? The RIAA are restricting your fun once again. A rant for another day
In general I cannot recomend this to anyone and I own all of the previous Guitar Hero releases. Why the three stars for the fun factor you might ask; I’m a 311 fan and playing Beautiful Disaster was a lot of fun. This one is not worthy of the GH franchise, but it would make for a fierce beer coaster. Pass on this game.
Buy Rock Band 2 instead, check my review for that one.
great game!
Wonderful Seller! It was received in perfect condition and very timely, thanks for the speedy delivery, i couldnt believe it came so fasst because it was in the middle of the christmas holidays.