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85 out of 100

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6.2 out of 10

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  • Summary: Guitar Hero World Tour marries Guitar Hero's guitar gameplay, with a cooperative band experience that combines the most advanced wireless instruments with revolutionary new online and offline gameplay modes. The game features a slick newly redesigned guitar, a genuine electronic drum kit and a microphone, as well as an innovative Music Studio music creator that lets players compose, record, edit and share their own rock and roll anthems, along with online Band Career and 8-player "Battle of the Bands." Guitar Hero World Tour is comprised entirely of master recordings from some of the greatest classic and modern rock bands of all-time including Ozzy Osbourne, Van Halen, Linkin Park, The Eagles, Sublime and many more. Additionally, the game offers significantly more localized downloadable music than ever before on all of the next-generation consoles. Budding rock stars are also given creative license to fully customize everything from their characters’ appearance and instruments to their band’s logo and album covers. Featuring three drum pads, two raised cymbals and a bass kick pedal, the drum controller combines larger and quieter, velocity-sensitive drum heads with soft rubber construction to deliver authentic bounce back and is easy to set up, move, break down and store. Virtual musicians can live out their rock and roll fantasies by playing either a single instrument, or any combination of instruments, in addition to the full band experience. Guitar Hero World Tour introduces Battle of the Bands mode which allows eight players to join online and challenge each other band-to-band to determine who is the best of the best. In the Band modes, up to four players can jam together, online or off, as they progress through the game, and in single-player Career Mode, players can jam on any of the instruments in branching venue progression enabling them to rock out in the order of their choice. The game's Music Studio lets players express their musical creativity by giving them access to a full compliment of tools to create digital music from scratch, utilizing all of the instruments, and then play their compositions in the game. Music creators can share their recordings with their friends online through GHTunes where other gamers can download their unique compositions and play them. [Activision]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 63 out of 67
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 67
  3. Negative: 0 out of 67
  1. BigPond GameArena
    100
    Pure, unadulterated joy.
  2. PGNx Media
    97
    Ultimately, all of Guitar Hero World Tour's components come together extremely well.
  3. Edge Magazine
    70
    Perhaps its greatest achievement is defying comparisons to Rock Band and emerging as its own game. GHWT might be a little rough around the edges, but it's a good stab at reinvigorating the franchise. [Christmas 2008, p.96]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 44
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 44
  3. Negative: 16 out of 44
  1. StevenH
    10
    Very excellent game, Only reason I see low votes is because of people who say it has the same songs as Rock Band 2, but in my opinion, the better songs are on Guitar Hero, then on Rock Band, plus... new intro to play styles for each instrument was nice, gives a variety, the drums are excellent, the songs are not impossibly hard, Unlike Rock Band 2s starting boring songs, Guitar Hero starts it off with a bang, and ends it with a bang. Character Customization is excellent, compared to RB2, and you can custom your own music instruments! Even make your own song, its very nice. Loved the music, gameplay, even the 4 seconds you get when you pause, to be back on track, they thought of everything you need to surpass RB2. Few more metal songs would of been nice, but still you can always add downloads on xbox market. Love the calibrate thing, keeps people from complaining, I see no flaws, no lagg, just a big competition for RB2. Guitar Hero makers, keep it up, you just need to release your next game before RockBand does! lol...… Expand
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  2. AnonymousFTW
    6
    Good not great. As a first effort, it doesn't even compare to the first Rock Band, let alone the refined second iteration. Easier than GH3 overall, which I think is better for the group in general, but the whole HUD is confusing/counter-intuitive. Maybe that's just me, though. I'll stick to my already 200+ track RB2 library, thanks.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. ChazD.
    4
    Game itself lacked a lot of what makes Rock Band 2 a better game, having no prior "full band" titles Guitar Hero WT is entering a Rock Band owned market now, with hardly any DLC, no previous games to import into the new track listing and things missing like such as "no fail" mode which Rock Band 2 has and is great for get togethers Myself I returned the whole kit because of problems with my drums AND guitar, both were hitting notes when I didn't even touch them and the drums would also add notes after I hit the red and yellow pads, IMO this is in-excusable for a $200 purchase and already owning Rock Band 2 and its hardware there was really no reason to keep the Guitar Hero bundle, very disappointed to say the least.… Expand
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