Guitar Hero World Tour or Rock Band 2
Since their first Guitar Hero game in 2005, Activision and RedOctane, publishers of the Guitar Hero series, were the leaders of the music game industry, until, 2 years after their first game release, Rock Band came onto the stage.
The developers of the original Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero 2 games were Harmonix, but after they completed their second Guitar Hero game, they moved onto a new publisher, MTV Games and EA. After Harmonix moved on, Neversoft took their place and the first thing they did was release a new game, Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock which was released in the later part of 2007. The game proved to be a great success, until later that year Harmonix came back into the business with 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 released, the competition started again. Both EA and Activision released their new games within the same month, November 2008. Guitar Hero World Tour from Activision and Rock Band 2 from EA, let the battle begin.
From Guitar Hero’s view, it was a whole new game for them, they had to create a whole new range of instruments, but once they were done, it was clear that they hadn’t cut any corners. Guitar Heros new guitar features a touch sensitive bar which allows finger tapping during song sections and their drums also features 1 extra pad than the Rock Band drums. Aswell as a whole range of shiny new instruments, their game featured a music maker where you could create and share your own songs.
On the Rock Band 2 side, Harmonix haven’t changed their instruments 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 those changes to the drums, the rest of their instruments have stayed the same.
On the game side of things, Rock Band don’t have a music maker, however, they do have one thing that Guitar Hero does not; a huge selection of downloadable songs on top of their 80+ song set list. This also gets better, if you have previously bought any Rock Band 1 songs, they are all compatible with Rock Band 2 and they all appear on your setlist when you load up the game. Another great advantage to Rock Band 2 is that for a small fee of less than $5, you can transfer almost every Rock Band 1 song onto Rock Band 2, giving you a setlist of over 150 songs.
Now that you’ve heard the advantages to each game, now comes the tricky part, deciding which one to get. During the economic problems, many people will only have the money for one of these games.
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.
At the moment it’s hard to tell which game will come out on top to be the master of the music game industry, all I can say is, let the battle of the bands commence.
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