Guitar Hero World Tour's new gear gets previewed

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.

[Rob @ Jun 19th 2008 10:20PM]

I thought the extra sensors were for tapping and hammer-ons.

[inimitable @ Jun 19th 2008 10:23PM]

My living room isn't BIG enough for two awesome fake instrument collections. The temptation is enough already!

[computer.dude.28 @ Jun 19th 2008 11:35PM]

I think it's almost time to dedicate the basement.. or the garage..

[pbase @ Jun 19th 2008 10:24PM]

That sunburst is seriously sweet.

[Danakin @ Jun 19th 2008 10:24PM]

nice.

[andres @ Jun 19th 2008 10:45PM]

mice

[Magnificen7 @ Jun 19th 2008 11:12PM]

rice

[Brady @ Jun 20th 2008 12:51AM]

Dice

[Kero @ Jun 20th 2008 1:32AM]

christ

[alex Greenberg @ Jun 20th 2008 2:30PM]

lice

[Lordo @ Jun 20th 2008 3:13AM]

Yes Child?

[I'd tap that (iphone) @ Jun 22nd 2008 8:38PM]

ice

[Joe Anstine @ Jun 19th 2008 10:28PM]

sunburst on a real guitar is even sweeter.

[Magnificen7 @ Jun 19th 2008 11:12PM]

Screw you. And I play guitar!

[Luigi193 @ Jun 19th 2008 11:57PM]

It will match my Sunburst J-Bass perfectly!

[pcgecko85 @ Jun 19th 2008 10:34PM]

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

[Linkman2004 @ Jun 20th 2008 2:55AM]

They state in the preview that Guitar Hero 3 guitars work in 4, so I Imagine it probably works the other way, as well.

[Greg @ Jun 19th 2008 11:28PM]

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.

[Chris @ Jun 19th 2008 11:53PM]

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!

[lawyer bird @ Jun 20th 2008 3:39AM]

when the world operating on money

[lawyer bird @ Jun 20th 2008 3:40AM]

dammit.

*stops operating on money

[Hafk @ Jun 20th 2008 4:49AM]

They have this one thing, where you pay $60.. and you just get the game.

It's amazing, I know.

[raptorspike @ Jun 20th 2008 12:07AM]

Boo! Hiss!!! No Wireless Mic!

[KarlW @ Jun 20th 2008 3:23AM]

You want a Britney-style mike?

[Akio @ Jun 20th 2008 7:18AM]

does he come bald or do you get an optional head shaver?

[Vincent @ Jun 20th 2008 1:03AM]

rock band is in TROUBLE!!! I've always like GH more than rock band

[Haikibutsu @ Jun 20th 2008 1:43AM]

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.

[cranium @ Jun 20th 2008 3:37AM]

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

[Jhongerkong @ Jun 20th 2008 3:42PM]

Bemani >>> Every other music game

[Joshco10 @ Jun 20th 2008 1:24AM]

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

[Mike @ Jun 20th 2008 1:45AM]

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...

[Ridgecity @ Jun 20th 2008 3:33AM]

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.

[SteveJ @ Jun 20th 2008 6:36AM]

What about the PS2 version - will it have all the features (aside from downloadable content)? Specifically will it have the music creation stuff?

[frank @ Jun 20th 2008 9:46AM]

Will my current Wii guitar still work for this if I just get the game without new instruments?

[Mark @ Jun 20th 2008 10:48AM]

According to the article, yes, your current guitar should work, you just wont have the new features of the touch sensitive part.

[Mike @ Jun 20th 2008 12:07PM]

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.

[Mike @ Jun 20th 2008 12:12PM]

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.