Guitar Hero takes on Rock Band

Mike Bantick
Friday, 23 May 2008 07:57

Your IT - Entertainment

Activision have announced the next generation of Guitar Hero, now with added drums and vocals.  Please welcome to the stage Guitar Hero World Tour.

Bringing Drums and Vocals to the Guitar Hero mix, adding music editing and allowing in-game downloadable content for the Nintendo Wii;  Guitar Hero World Tour is set to take on Rock Band for control of the living room stage.

From the release:
When the house lights go down this [southern] spring, a new generation of axe shredders, drummers and fearless front men will come together and rock with Activision, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) Guitar Hero® World Tour.  The latest instalment from the #1 best-selling video game franchise of 2007, Guitar Hero World Tour will transform music gaming by marrying Guitar Hero’s® exhilarating guitar gameplay, with a cooperative band experience that combines the most advanced wireless instruments with revolutionary new online and offline gameplay modes.  The game will feature 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.”

Delivering the largest on-disc set list in a music-rhythm game to-date, Guitar Hero World Tour is comprised entirely of master recordings from some of the greatest classic and modern rock bands of all-time including Van Halen, Linkin Park, The Eagles, Sublime and many more.  Additionally, the game will offer significantly more localized downloadable music than ever before on all of the next-generation consoles.  Budding rock stars will also be given creative license to fully customize everything from their characters’ appearance and instruments to their band’s logo and album covers.