Customer Reviews

PS2 Guitar Hero World Tour - Band Kit

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I bought the World Tour Band kit yesterday. Hooked it up to my PS2 and it worked like magic. Before you know it, I had my 2 year old singing, my wife playing the drums (my wife is a better drummer than me), and me rocking out on the guitar. The songs are great and I love how each person can play at their own pace. I'm at medium level on guitar, my wife is easy for drums, and my 2 year old is advanced on the singing (well, maybe not yet, but for now she is a beginner level). I have 2 frustrations with the game. 1) it is slow to start. Easy level on the drums is hard in my book, granted we haven't had any time to practice. But we often are not able to finish the song, so we have to start over. This takes what seems like a few minutes to reload. You'd think that if you already have the song loaded, that it would be a quick thing to start over. Frustration #2, there are alot of menus to go through. It took awhile to be able to set all 3 of us up to start playing. If I set myself as the leader of the band, I never could start the music with my guitar. I always had to set the drums as the leader so that we could start playing.

As I stated above, the game is great. It is a ton of fun and recommend it for every age group. I think over the next few years it will be a great game that my family can play together and have fun. It will really allow us to bond tightly. I recommend it for all parents with kids of all different ages to play it with their kids. They might be able to cream you at the game, but you can play it at beginner level, while they are at expert.

Here's what I did to fix the same problem on my PS2 (Slim model # SCPH-70012). This should work for all models of PS2's. (Slim or Fat). Sony says all models can read a dual layer disc. If the fix doens't work then you need to send in your PS2 for service.


1) Start up the PS2 with no disc in it.
2) Highlight the 'Browser' menu and press the 'green triangle' button.
3) Highlight the 'Console' menu and press the 'green triangle' button.
4) Highlight the 'Diagnostics' menu and press the 'blue X' button and select 'ON'.
5) Press the 'red O' button to back out of this menu.
6) Highlight the 'PlaystationDrive' menu and press the 'green triangle' button.
7) Highlight the 'Disc Speed' menu and press the 'blue X' button and select 'FAST'.
8) Press the 'red O' button to back out of this menu.
9) Turn off your PS2.

10) This step is optional.......I blew into the main unit to loosen any dust out of it and then carefully used my shirt to wipe across the lens at the back of the drive. I'm not sure if this mattered or not. Since I did this in conjuction with the above steps I can't say if this is needed.


11) Insert the disc and turn the PS2 back on. The diagnostics should run and automatically adjust your PS2 to play the game. I was amazed! Mine loaded right up after several previous days of nothing.

12) I checked the settings after the initial load and the Diagnostics and Drive speed reset to normal so it must be a one time run thing. My game has loaded everytime since and I haven't had to re-do the settings at all.

I hope this works for you too!!

When buying this game I had some concerned because a lot of people were saying that it sometimes came with the instruments not working, or that it did not play on certain PS2s, or that Rock Band was better. I can ASSURE you this game works perfectly fine, the track list is awesome, it is one of the best party games ever!
And if you just want to play and not care about "adventure mode" you can unlock every song with a cheat code and just play for fun!
Seriously, do not have a single worry about this game and buy it! It's the cheapest guitar hero world tour out there because it's on the PS2 and it is as good as the other ones, no difference! Enjoy!

My husband also owns Rock Band and says he still loves his Rock Band, but his favorite is the New Guitar Hero World Tour!

Really, I don't need to review the game itself, there are many reviews that cover that. I did want to say that my family was one of many that had drum kit issues straight off the bat. Our red pad had to be hit extremely hard to register.

Even if you are not having drum pad issues, I highly recommend going to Red Octane's Warranty Department ( [...] ) and asking for the free drum tuner MIDI cable. It's a quick download on Windows and works extremely well. We have a drum kit that responds beautifully now.

Kids loved it and had a blast....the only complaint I would have is that your system needs an extention to plug in all the instruments which I do think should have come with it. This was for the playstation 2.

We love this game; everyone is playing it. The microphone is a riot and you can fail if you miss enough notes, but my horrible voice got a 94%! The slide on the guitar is awesome and the drums are very realistic when you get to expert.
We have the Ps2 and it didn't work at first. when we contacted Activision, they told us we needed to download an upgrade for the Ps2 driver but that is not true. Google "Ps2 disassemble to clean" and pick a Youtube site that appears in the search and then pick "Fixing Disc Read Error" by protothps. It took 5 minutes to clean the laser eye and then everything worked. We've been rockin' all winter break.

Even though it is a funny game, the quality of the wires is very poor, also one of the usb receptor stopped working in short time and I cannot get this part alone.

Dear support team!
I bought the Guitarhero world tour game via AMAZON.
I received the game with one severe problem the PlayStation 2 Drum Pedal wire was damaged.
The wire of the pedal was melted and "eaten" by the OIL of the pedal spring. The oil melted the plastic! The Pedal was damaged and I cannot use it at all.
Please contact me.
I can send pictures how the Pedal arrived in the packaging.

This was a real bad experience. It was a Christmas gift from the "Big Guy" and it didn't work. It was a lot of hassle sending it back, and am still waiting for this issue to be resolved.