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17 Aug, 2009
Guitar Hero World Tour: Complete Guitar kit.
I was brought into the band game phenomenon with Rock Band 2. I and my family have enjoyed it very much, so when I saw a chance to pick up a spare guitar and Guitar Hero World Tour for 20 dollars on eBay, I jumped at the chance.
The game: The game itself has much more readily recognizable tracks then RB2. The graphics also seem to be superior than the competition. For me, that is where the pluses stop. The game is fun to play, but the controls seem to be much tighter and much more unforgiving than RB2, even after using the calibrate feature, which is a must out of the box if you play on a large screen LCD or Plasma. The presentation and whole "band" experience is something that was just slapped into the game play, and their is no real sense of achievement like there is in RB2. Also, the team that worked on the "tabbing" (the colored tabs that scroll on the screen for each song) seemed to think that OVER tabbing was the only solution to making the difficulty levels for the songs, instead of combining more tabbing and multiple finger placement.
The guitar: Compared to the RB2 guitar, the GH:WT guitar feels like a beast. It's heavier and thicker all around, including the neck, and that makes the buttons that much more awkward to play if you started out on Rock Band guitar. The neck buttons just increase the difficulty of being able to play some of the faster songs. The RB people got it right by making the WHOLE fret bar a button on their guitar, instead of just centering a smaller button like the GH guitar has.
Overall: Better songs and graphics. Game experience and controller is far less superior then the RB2 game and controller. I would recommend getting the game just to experience playing some of the songs available in the library, but if you are looking to add a second guitar to your RB2 set, I would find another RB2 guitar and then just buy the game separate from any of the instruments offered in the GH line.