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Granted, the RB kit uses a magnetic switch, rather than a piezoelectric sensor like in the WT kit, so WT Pedals use regular sensors.

I liked the WT kit when I had it, but getting a good one is a 50/50 chance (like the RB1 drums). I bet the GH5 kit will be much better. As long as it still has a MIDI in port, I will be happy. ]]>Jul 6th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 7th 2009 1:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/>> Guitar Hero. Neversoft just can't make music games like Harmonix -- heck, I don't think anybody really can. ]]>Jul 6th 2009 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/
]]>Jul 6th 2009 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/My roommate was a big GH3 fan, and eagerly awaited World Tour. In the meantime, we played my copy of Rock Band constantly.

When GHWT finally came out, he was extremely dissapointed with the entire set-up. He still uses his GH3 guitar over the GHWT one, since the GHWT one only seems to register buttons about 1/2 of the time. He also got a lemon drum set, and sent away for a replacement. The replacement he got was also broken in the same way (red pad completely unresponsive).

Since I never bought the hardware, my gripes were with the GHWT game itself. The band play was horribly disconnected, the UI was impossible to see on a standard-def TV, and the game felt sloppy and disorganized.

Thankfully, Guitar Hero Metallica fixed almost all of my gripes with GHWT, and seems much more solid, despite the fact that I can't play the songs to save my life.]]>Jul 6th 2009 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/
The drumset I got with GHWT has worked flawlessly from the day I got it, even after dragging it to a few LAN parties. I did get a DOA Mic, but I got it replaced in about 2 weeks.

Kevlar talked about his friend who had an unresponsive GHWT guitar, but had a perfect GH3 guitar. I've had the opposite experience. The GHWT guitar is the best guitar so far, IMO. My GH3 guitar won't always detect orange or yellow presses. I don't even use it anymore. When I have friends over, I use my GHWT guitar while my friends use one of the two Xplorers I got for $10 from Toys R Us.

As far as game vs. game, I still prefer GHWT, though I think the songs in all of the games have been slowly getting worse to appeal to more people. I loved GH2's song list. GH3's was okay. There are maybe 10 songs in GHWT I like, which is kind of saddening... I prefer GHWT's art style, too... Rock Band has always been a bit too dark for me. The game as a whole looks very grainy and I just don't like the style.

I'll be buying Rock Band 2 sometime soon because I want to play the Green Day packs that are coming out, though, so...]]>Jul 6th 2009 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 7th 2009 3:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/
Its a good way to twist and ankle!]]>Jul 6th 2009 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/
Microsoft's stupid EyeToy ripoff that they were caught faking demos for at E3 that is coming out MAYBE in late 2010 that requires the worst console ever made, the Xbox 360.

LOL!

Yeah, all those Guitar Hero and Rock Band players are going to be queuing up to wave their hands around in the air like idiots in front of each other at parties or with their roommates...

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And the bass-drum beater isn't there.

Then - what IS that thing at the bottom?? :D]]>Jul 6th 2009 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/
Also, to the guy on about the pedal - I've only seen a broken RB pedal.

Prefer RB tracklists tho]]>Jul 6th 2009 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 6th 2009 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Joystiq is over run with these posts.
These 2 games may be the biggest racket in video game history, charge people $200 to get it set up, then bang people a few more bucks a week to get more songs.

I liked guitar hero, it was fun for a while, but it's really just all the same game over and over, just with new songs. The developers barely have to do any work to add new content.
At least when you buy downloadable content on a first person shooter you get new maps to play for a while, even weeks or months. For your money in GH or RB, you get a song that takes good players 1 try to beat and then you never use it again.

I pity the people that keep sinking their hard earned money into these 2 games.
As far as i'm concerned the fun ended at GH3.]]>Jul 6th 2009 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/That's the stupidest thing I've heard someone say about these games, and there are a lot of whiners.
You do realize that some of these songs are challenging? Even to some of the best players, when you have a song like Good Morning/Black Friday by Megadeath, the drum track is insane to play, because it requires you to use one pedal for the bass drum, while you do as many beats as the drummer does in the song yet he had two.
So no, even when "good players" beat songs, them play them again, because it's fun. To say the fun stopped with GH3 made me want to throw up for a second there, because 3 was crap compared to 2 or 1, and the RB series is superior in so many ways to the GH series in terms of the quality, design and game-play that it's my personal opinion that you do not know anything about these games. Period.
GH is being milked entirely by Activison, but your comment was so crappy I had to respond. Sorry if I offend you.]]>Jul 7th 2009 6:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 9th 2009 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 7th 2009 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/
I should be able to move one drum closer to another if i like.

]]>Jul 7th 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/I've had 3 faulty WT sets, one functional RB1 set and one ION kit, but that's mainly for real drum practice and I much prefer the RB1 kit.
I think I'll get this one regardless of what the game is like.]]>Jul 8th 2009 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 9th 2009 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/06/guitar-hero-5s-drums-getting-a-rock-band-makeover/Jul 23rd 2009 12:59AM