Customer Reviews

Guitar Hero World Tour

5 star:		(15)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(9)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

The other reviewers tell you everything you need to know about the game. It's a lot of fun. I couldn't find a clear answer before buying it to whether or not my rock band guitar and drums would work with it. Thus, the point of this review is to let you know that YES they will work. You don't have to buy a whole new set of equipment. This isn't meant to discourage you from buying them if that's what you want. I'm just letting you know you don't have to if you own the first generation or Rock Band equipment. I, personally, just don't have the space to house two drums sets. I wouldn't have bought the game if the controllers weren't compatible for that reason. My only small complaint is that some of the songs on Rockband 2 and GH WT overlap but there's enough songs that don't (Hotel California and Purple Haze) that it's worth buying both.

This is a good enough game for even those who can not pony up the dough for full kit or a new guitar, just get the game and play just bass and guitar, and let your inner rock fury go!

I myself purchased this band kit as soon as I could this morning the day of release, and it is well worth it. Here is what comes it the kit: Drum kit(3 pads, 2 cymbal risers, kick pedal) with midi in and expansion port, drumsticks, usb microphone, guitar with connector/usb splitter, stickers for guitar. All you need to connect in one box, no need for extra usb hub if you do not want it.

A bit about the drum kit, very playable, durable upper, kick pedal is a bit flimsy, but alright for my purposes.

A bit about the new guitar. This features detachable faceplate, extended neck, larger strum bar, longer whammy bar, and the tap/touch pad. this guitar is not necessary for any features in the game, but for advanced gamers, they may find it a new fun way to bend the sounds on long notes, or get through hammer-ons and pull offs faster. I'm pleased I can get through this on the old Les Paul.

Now, about the game itself, see song listing above, it's amazing. Just a ton more songs available in the game, only a few to "purchase" in the game, the rest unlock. The venues and graphics are all sharp and fantastic to look at. The animation of the Guests who come in are spot on, such as Ted Nugent riding in on a Bison, or Zach Wilde's attitude behind the 6 string. There are many other guest such as Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumkins, the Lead Singer of Paramore, and the drummer from Blink 182. Overall the game play will keep you busy for many hours (took me almost 4 hours to get 50% through, minimal breaks). The head to head battle's with guitar legends is now replace by guitar challenges with masters like Ted Nugent And Zach Wilde where you don't try to cut strings and stuff, you just try to keep up with them and make yourself and them look good. If you do, you play an encore with them.

Also, there is a recording studio that allows users to make and play their own music, a first like this for this genre (though rock revolution tried). And much like legends of rock, there is online team play, head to head battling.

If you do not have another "Band Kit" and are looking to have one, this is an excellent choice, and having played Rock band and Rock Band Two, this is at or above both of those, especially since they are all "Master Recordings", no covers, and it has plenty of great songs fulfill my need to thrash, rock, or pop my way about stage.

This is a good game but it falls short in a couple of areas:

Pros (always good to stay positive at first):

Music that just isn't available anywhere else
Death Magnetic Album (tight)
Recording Studio is kinda cool I like how you can pick scales and effects with your axe (more on that in Cons)
Create Rock Star is really in depth
Compatibility with RB instruments (biggest plus)

Cons

DLC Content is practically non existent (yes it is new but at least support all of GH:3's content would have made up for it)
Graphics are not as good as they could/should be
Recording Studio is like a create your own ringtone studio......vocals should be in there in some medium......maybe they just can't publish vocals on the net
The instruments don't sync that well with the TV and Calibration does little to fix this



Overall GH:WT is a fun game and its worth it if you just love this genre of games to own as it gives you more songs to play. I just think Activision should have stuck to what they were doing before. People love the GH games and with the Artists that they always get they will sell games. I think GH: Aerosmith is cool and I am sure GH: Metallica will sell a lot of games.

This one i can qualify it as essential, and in my oppinion, it has the best playlist on all GH games, even of the most recent ones. The playlist is incredibly varied, so i can say that anyone will like it.
You have Metal, Hard rock, pop, grunge, Gothic rock, Country and Dance music, there are other genders but i don't know how they are called.
So anyway, if you're a Guitar Hero fan or collector, this one will be an essential one, and if you're about to start in Guitar Hero world, this is the best edition to start with.

First off, love the songs. Out of the box, GH has the best songs period. The download content is also great if you want more.

However the gameplay was either too hard or too easy. Even with the 5 skill level, the game just seemed to be too large a jump in skill levels. The speed the notes come and the notice you get before they were even on medium makes the game very hard unless you learn and memorize the songs.

Also unlike Rockband, you can not simply add older games songs into the library of music. That was a huge selling point for me since we want as many songs as possible.

The slider was pretty cool for the guitar but does not get much use. Its kind of a gimmick IMO and not really needed.

The graphics were not as good as Rockband either nor is setting up to play. It felt like it took a lot longer to select songs and play. Though the graphics do not matter much for a game like this, being able to get into a game quick with friends is critical.

Overall not a bad game but just not as good as I had hoped. Not sure if I would by another GH game after this one, as when people come over we all play Rockband.

I'm really not sure what to make out of this game - I purchased this New for [...] bucks, so I can't complain too much. I bought GHWT shortly after purchasing and getting to the end of GH3, figuring that the gameplay would be as much fun, but I was sorely mistaken. First and foremost on my list of gripes (I know I said I wouldn't complain too much, but...) it doesn't save unless you complete an entire set, which I don't always want to do. Sometimes I come home from work and just want to play one song to add to my career - I can't do that with this game.

I'm not a total nub to gaming, but even choosing a gig doesn't seem that intuitive. I seem to keep winding up on screen that wants me to play some Swedish death metal gig. What's up with that?!?

As other reviewers noted, there is a vast chasm between difficulties here. It's too boring to play on Easy but then you ramp it up to Medium and the notes are flying at you like crazy. With RB, I generally play guitar and drums on Medium, bass on Hard and vocals on Expert. I can't do anything above Easy on any of the GH games. Perhaps, this has something to do with the syncing/calibration of the instruments, which doesn't seem to be as dead on as RB. To be honest, this may be more of an issue with the PS3 because I've played GH2 on Xbox 360 and the guitar seemed to be completely lag-free. But alas, even with GH2, Medium is much harder than it should be.

Couple that with graphics that just don't seem to be as good as GH3 (especially in the 'choose a gig' area - I've seen Flash games that have better visuals), World Tour just seemed like something that Activision knocked out quickly to earn a few bucks.

Now I will say that GH does have a more solid stable of songs and artists than the Rock Band franchise - at least that's my own personal preference.

Another comment about the music, I can't fault either franchise for overlap in tunes, but I don't like having some of the same songs on both RB and GH, it feels like a bit of a rip off. But that's coming from someone who likes a vast array of music and would generally like to be playing something new all of the time.

So this game sat on my shelf with all of the other PS3 games that I figured I would get around to eventually. I'm not even sure if I'll try to play it again, since I've now purchased Rock Band 1 and 2 and definitely prefer the gameplay there to any of the GH games that I've tried.

Sure, I'll probably pop in GH3 from time to time to play a couple of my favorite songs on there, but I don't honestly forsee myself even attempting to complete World Tour, unless I find myself laid off from my job with a lot of free time on my hands.

It's not completely horrible, but there are better options out there. The best thing I can say is that this is a cheap way to kill time.

It is a good game, the only thing that makes it bad is when using a high definition TVs, songs aren't well processed, even if you use automatic synchronization.

The release of this game, especially with the release of the bass, mic, and drum controls was pretty epic! A lot of people, including myself, bought this up and had a great time hashing out songs with their friends and family. I know I did! There are many great songs on this game, but I feel the only one real problem with this game is that several of the gigs have some really crappy songs in them! Many of my friends, my wife, and I agreed that there were definitely some poorly chosen songs in areas of this game. After this the songs on following games were all a lot better, so I think after that whole thing they learned better of putting outlandish songs on Guitar Hero, and stick with more well known music. However, that being said, this game was all around awesome, and I enjoyed playing through it, whether on my own or with my friends. I also very much enjoyed the addition of the Tool playlist that you could earn with some of your in game dollars. It was about $8,000 in game...a price I was more than willing to earn up to play them. Tool typically keeps a pretty low profile and doesn't give in a whole lot to a lot of media and exposure, so I was not expecting to have seen that, but it was pretty awesome. The animation for the duration of the 3 song set is pretty cool too. I imagine anyone on drugs would have really freaked out playing those songs, LoL! Overall, with the exception of a handful of crappy songs, this was an awesome Guitar Hero game!

Decent songs. There's not a BIG difference in how then notes (colored buttons on the screen) look and scroll, but there is a slight difference which, for me, makes it a little more difficult to play. It's pretty much same as all the others with a different set list (songs that are on the game). So if you like guitar hero and the set list than, this is pretty much for you.

this game was a lot of fun, very easy to pick up and very hard to put the guitar down or the drums