Guitar Hero: World Tour has only officially been on shelves for
a day or so now, but unhappy PS3 customers are already making a fuss -- the game's new drumkit isn't compatible with Rock Band 2. That's a major disappointment -- having redundant guitars because Activision and Harmonix can't play nice is annoying enough, but two drumkits is downright ridiculous -- and it's doubly irritating because
Sony promised it would bring the hammer down and make sure all these peripherals were cross-compatible. The Xbox 360 kits seem to work with each other, so it's probably just a bug and Harmonix is apparently working on patch. In the meantime, you can probably take out your frustration with this crazy Gene Simmons axe-shaped guitar controller that's due out on Halloween -- we're not sure if we'd pay $80 for the privilege of pretending to be in KISS while playing a video game, but if you're in the Army, Amazon is taking preorders now.
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posted Oct 27th 2008 9:11PM
For a split second I thought it looked cool, then I saw his little face leering at me, tongue stuck out like a panting dog with rape on its mind, and it just went downhill from there.
How bout a pair of testicles at the bottom.
guitar gonads?
Isn't this the guy who said, "Every little college kid, every freshly-scrubbed little kid's face should have been sued off the face of the earth."
Douchebag.
Looks like PS3 users got screwed again...
I've heard, though, that the GH drum set is really fragile...can anybody support/deny these claims?
I can support that claim. My GH 360 drums have already broken since I purchased them on Sunday; twice.
Red Octane wanted me to pay to ship the drum kit back to them for repairs, which were supposed to take about 3 weeks. I said screw it, opened it up myself, investigated the problem, and fixed it. The wires that connect the circuit board to the drum pad are connected to the pad terribly. After a re-solder and throwing some Krazy Glue on top, it works well now.
That was on my green pad, yesterday. Today the same thing happened on my red pad. Same fix. Works well now.
They seriously wanted you to pay for it? Christ, Harmonix still ships out brand new sets for free and as long as you return them, there is no charge.
Just to follow up on my earlier comment, one of my cymbals started acting up this evening, too. The connection looked OK, but I re-soldered it just to be sure. Works better now.
The way these things were made, the wires are just barely soldered to the pad, and they are covered with some glue. The glue dried is more like a putty. I'm not surprised that the connections are breaking. After they break, the glue hold them together, but they don't register every hit since the only connection is glue holding the wire against the pad.
i think this might be the first third party guitar hero guitar worth buying. it looks pretty badass whether you're a KISS fan or not.
I'm sorry:
No, no sir - it does not.
how does the 360 drums compatibility work, given that GHWT has 3 drums and two cymbals while RB has 4 drums? seems like it would be awkward. also, RB drums is hard enough, dunno how hard the 5 buttons of GHWT would be.
no. kiss blows and this guitar looks like complete shit. there you go.
Dammit that was directed at cheng.
Just imagine how insane Rock Revolution's is then. Explains the low score it's been getting everywhere.
Whatever! Get a real guitar and play...
OMG!!! You're the first person to say this and its opened my eyes!
GFY, Mayer. What are you doing on Engadget anyway?
The title should say that it's only PS3...
the gh world tour drums work with rock band 2 on the 360 you just dont get to use the orange cymbol
Rivers Cuomo would be very happy.
Kiss sucks
We're considering buying a drum kit for my son's GHWT for PS2 - would we be better off buying Rock Band drums instead?
buy the guitar hero but wait a little bit because GH is going to put a patch in that will allow everything too work with eachother. Also, if I were you( I gotta lil bit of spare cash so I can spend it), I would buy both the games but just 1 bundle so then you get all the songs for only 260$. It's a pretty good deal if you ask me.
"controller not compatible with taste"
I was going to go all "Hey, thanks for reminding me what site I'm on, Engadget.."
..then I saw the picture. ..and I actually think I agree.
GHWT should be a PS3 exclusive (and yet another reason not to own one)
I used to totally rock to KISS man, then I turned eleven and outgrew them.
Saw Kiss a few months ago @ Download 2008 in the UK.
What an amazing show it was!
Gene used a guitar like that, awesome!
I have rock band 1 drums will it work on GHWT?????? please reply to my email at federerfan11@gmail.com
Which Drum kit is better? Buying tomorrow and the best drum kit wins? GHWT or RB???
does anyone know if the GHWT *GUITAR* for ps3 works for both rockband1 and rockband2?
ok, so Rock Band controllers, drums and all do work with Guitar Hero World Tour, tried it with PS3. Guitar Hero world tour not as good with songs, but it works, rented the game to try it
This guitar is great - some googling revealed an interesting behind the scenes story:
http://www.legacyengineer.com/portfolio-guitar.html
Looks like this company is the one who actually designed it for Gene Simmons - but the thing is - I2G/Gene stiffed them and never paid for the building of it. These people are the ones behind the Flashback 2 and other cool looking products as well - they build electronic works of art. If Gene played a concert - he'd expect to get paid, well these people built what looks like a great product, real shame that didn't get paid.
my son already has the drum set, now he wants the Guitar hero III drum set, does anyone know if the additional pieces will come out soon and can be added to xbox 360.
thanks
gh3 only has guitar it will never have drums or microphone
i heard that rock band 2 drums can work on guitar hero world tour but im not sure if its true....is it?
As musicians and songwriters, KISS are really pretty weak, but as far as live shows go, they blow just about everybody else away. I own no KISS CDs, but the concert was very cool. They have to be OK on some level if they can have been around 30 years and can sell mass produced guitars