Why Rock Band 2 Will Beat Guitar Hero: World Tour

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http://www.gamersplatform.com/2008/07/28/why-rock-band-will-beat-guitar-hero-world-tour/

Lately, there has been a lot of fighting over what music game will be better. Whether it will be Rock Band 2 or Guitar Hero: World Tour. Sure, Guitar Hero: World Tour has a few new cool things: Create your own songs, make your own guitars and drums sets. These are some nice new additions, but what it really comes down to is what game is going to be able to keep the players hooked the longest. It’s simple really, Rock Band 2 is going to be the victor.

To start off this argument, lets look at the facts. Guitar Hero 1, developed by Harmonix. Sure, it had its problems. Hammer-ons weren’t the best, and it didn’t have pro-face off or co-op. Aside from those things, the game was great, it had great songs, and it was fun, everyone loved it. Then Guitar Hero 2 came. It was still developed by Harmonix, and it pretty much fixed everything. The Hammer-ons were better than ever, the songs were great (they had Freebird), they had both pro-face off and Co-op, the future was bright from Guitar Hero.

Then Guitar Hero 3 came. No longer developed by Harmonix, now it was developed by Neversoft. Everyone had high hopes for the game, but if you’ve every played the first two Guitar Hero’s, then you know how much worse this one is. Its song were…eh, could be better. They ended up making the hammer-ons a little too easy (in my opinion) and honestly, the game was nearly impossible to beat on expert, unless you were some Guitar Hero freak. It seems like Neversoft was more worried about making the game difficult to beat, more than making it fun for the gamers, that they just chose popular songs that people liked, even if the Guitar sucked.

Although I think Guitar Hero 3 was a disappointment, there was still hope. For Rock Band was being made, by none other than Harmonix! I was jumping with joy when this news was revealed. When Rock Band was released, the game didn’t disappoint. It was the merchandise that disappointed. If you own Rock Band, then you know what I’m talking about. Although the merchandise could have been better, the game was amazing. It has awesome songs on it, making them fun on all the instruments (not just the guitar). You could now make your own character, and you actually had a World Tour Co-op mode, where you would travel the world, gaining fans as you went and playing in various places.

Now Guitar Hero expects to step in Rock Bands way, with Guitar Hero: World Tour. I don’t think they stand a chance. The first and second Guitar Hero games were outstanding, and it’s obvious that Harmonix has showed us that they can do amazing things. I think that GH:WT is going to be Guitar Hero 3 with drums and singing added into the mix. Neversoft is going to make the game way harder than it needs to be. They are going to choose popular songs, even if they have horrible guitar, drums, and singing altogether. We’ve already seen Rock Band 2’s set-list, and its looking better than ever. Now where’s Guitar Hero: World Tours set-list? I’d like to see Neversoft just try and top Harmonix.

 

I think that the music creator will make GHIV better