Which Game Will Be A Rock Legend
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 hit until later that year a new game was released, Rock Band by the old Guitar Hero developers, Harmonix. 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 battle commence.
For Guitar Hero, this was a whole new venture for them, a new range of different instruments that they had never made before, but after seeing the end result, 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 new range of instruments, the new game features a music creator where you can create your very own music and then share it via the internet.
On the Rock Band 2 side, Harmonix haven’t changed their instruments much. Harmonix only made 2 changes to the drums, they made the peddle metal instead of plastic to make it stronger, they also changed the drums to velocity sensitive, basically, the harder you hit on the pads, the louder the sound you get in the game. Apart from a few tweaks, they haven’t changed their instrument range.
On the actual game side of things, they haven’t got a music maker, however, they do have one great 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 the advantages to each game have been said, now comes the difficult part, deciding which one to get. With all the economic problems, many people will only have the money for one of these games, plus the space for only 1 set of instruments.
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.
Although it’s a totally open stage, it’s hard to tell which game will come out on top. I personally prefer Rock Band 2 over Guitar Hero World Tour simply because of the very expandable set list and the layout of the srceen.
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