We've already seen plenty of
Guitar Hero World Tour's drums, but while we've heard
rumblings of a touchpad for the new guitar, this is the first time we've seen it in the flesh. IGN has a preview of all the new gear, and says the strip will be used for fiddling around with notes during sustains, tapping to play notes, and for interfacing with the new music creator. The guitar is also larger than its other toy guitar predecessors. In other news, the drums are pressure sensitive, the mic is pretty plain, and the music creation software is completely off the chain. Unfortunately, you won't be allowed to record vocals for songs, but otherwise you can pretty much build anything you'd want with the software. In even better news, the Wii version of World Tour will share all these features, and while we promised ourselves we wouldn't install two full sets of fake band gear in our living room, we're starting to get some serious cravings here.
posted June 19th 2008 10:18PM
I thought the extra sensors were for tapping and hammer-ons.
My living room isn't BIG enough for two awesome fake instrument collections. The temptation is enough already!
I think it's almost time to dedicate the basement.. or the garage..
That sunburst is seriously sweet.
nice.
mice
rice
Dice
christ
lice
Yes Child?
ice
sunburst on a real guitar is even sweeter.
Screw you. And I play guitar!
It will match my Sunburst J-Bass perfectly!
Is it compatible with gh3?! it'd better be! gh3 guitar better be compatible with gh4 too
Im holding off on buying another gh3 guitar so i can get a gh4 one
They state in the preview that Guitar Hero 3 guitars work in 4, so I Imagine it probably works the other way, as well.
I'm sure it will be, pcgecko. The real question is whether it (and the drums) will play nice with Rock Band the way the GH3 guitars do. If it doesn't, I'll go with the old model. They should get cheaper anyhow.
Great......add this to my other 4 guitar hero/rock band controllers! Seriously when are they gonna realize that we care more about the damn game itself than buying another controller with every new game!
when the world operating on money
dammit.
*stops operating on money
They have this one thing, where you pay $60.. and you just get the game.
It's amazing, I know.
Boo! Hiss!!! No Wireless Mic!
You want a Britney-style mike?
does he come bald or do you get an optional head shaver?
rock band is in TROUBLE!!! I've always like GH more than rock band
I like DDR more than Gaytar hero.
And before you tell me I have never played guitar hero, my sister has it, and I passed my first song, and it was on medium.
An don DDR I do heavy.
you passed a song on medium? whoa. i now consider your opinion to be more valid.
gather 'round everyone. let's see what else he can tell us
Bemani >>> Every other music game
MORE PLASTIC INSTRUMENTS FTW!!!!!
RB2 is gonna have some serious competition, and whoever comes out on top this round wins my vote (nd purchase), so far (since no word on RB2) GH:WT has mah vote
Looks nice, but I'm still curious to know what Rock Band 2 will look like, because I don't see much else in the new Guitar Hero other than Activision playing catch-up to Rock Band.
Except for the music creator. That's pretty damn sweet. Except you can't record vocals. That kinda sucks... And there's no way Activision will make any of their instruments interoperable. That also really blows...
Rock band can't really make any big mods to the controllers since they will alienate all those that already bought a ton of stuff.
I was going to buy Rock Band for Wii until they announced this. I still wanna see what happens with any of these huge boxes of plastic. I got a small house to buy both.
What about the PS2 version - will it have all the features (aside from downloadable content)? Specifically will it have the music creation stuff?
Will my current Wii guitar still work for this if I just get the game without new instruments?
According to the article, yes, your current guitar should work, you just wont have the new features of the touch sensitive part.
Got the Wii version on GH & I was thinking of looking @ RB when it came out but now I'm waiting to see when RB comes out in the fall. I find that I dont play much in the summer anyway so waiting till fall isn't a prob. Plus the GH guitar wouldn't be compatible with the RB set anyway so in the event of a tie GH will win for me.
Got the Wii version on GH & I was thinking of looking @ RB when it
came out but now I'm waiting to see when RB comes out in the fall. I
find that I dont play much in the summer anyway so waiting till fall
isn't a prob. Plus the GH guitar wouldn't be compatible with the RB
set anyway so in the event of a tie GH will win for me.