{"id":265,"date":"2008-12-02T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/guitar-hero-world-tour-impressions\/"},"modified":"2008-12-02T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T17:16:00","slug":"guitar-hero-world-tour-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/guitar-hero-world-tour-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Guitar Hero: World Tour Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I rented Guitar Hero: World Tour<\/a> over the long weekend last week and played through the guitar campaign, a big chunk of the bass campaign, and a little of the drums. My wife checked out the vocals for a bit and we tried a little online. I’m probably expecting to much after playing Rock Band 2 for a few months, but overall, I’m found myself frustrated and annoyed with GH:WT. Before I start ripping on all the stuff I did not like there were a few cool parts.<\/p>\n

– I like playing the bass and having open notes to play (with no fret buttons pressed down). It made it feel a little more like playing a real bass.
– I also liked how you can stop after any song in the middle of a set in the campaign and it saved your spot. It would nice to have that for some of the 8 and 12 song sets in Rock Band 2’s tour mode.
– The other nice little touch was the ability to change difficulty mid set if you’re having trouble. It came in hand when I was playing drums and hit a song with a lot of bass pedal action.<\/p>\n

While there were a few bright spots I was mostly just glad to when I finished the guitar tour and returned to Rock Band 2.
– The overall graphical style of the game drove me crazy. I much prefer Rock Band’s simpleness. I know that is just personal preference but it still bugged me.
– The song selection in GH:WT is lousy. Even my wife asked where all the good songs were. I probably only knew half of the songs in GH:WT and the half I did not know were not that fun to play. in Rock Band 2 the songs I did not know were still pretty fun.
– Even on songs I know and like the note charts feel weird. Like I’m not so much playing the song as trying to hit notes to the rhythm of the guitar. Rock Band 2 does a much better job of making you feel like you could actually be playing the song in my opinion.
– The music creation portion is brutally hard to use. Unless you’re really wanting to make your own song in GH:WT and have a lot of time and patience it is not worth the effort.<\/p>\n

Unless you’re a hardcore Guitar Hero fan I’d recommend skipping GH:WT and getting Rock Band 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I rented Guitar Hero: World Tour over the long weekend last week and played through the guitar campaign, a big chunk of the bass campaign, and a little of the drums. My wife checked out the vocals for a bit and we tried a little online. I’m probably expecting to much after playing Rock Band […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[78,4,7,5],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","tag-guitar-hero","tag-rant","tag-review","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}