| SHMUPGurus said: RedOctane/Neversoft, on the other hand, is having a COMPLETE change to their engine, creates a completely new guitar and drum kit (with 6 buttons). Sure, you might say it's ''copied'' and shit, but look at Harmonix trying to make their drum ''touch-sensitive'' right after that Guitar Hero: World Tour presentation this last E3, or other things like that (Beginner mode comes in mind as well). I have to say though, competition is a good thing in this market, and it seems to me that World Tour is trying to give us more of what we like here: A music editor that can double, even quadruple (and even give us the whole Rock Band 2 soundtrack while we're at it), the current number of songs available on the disk, the same Battle of the Bands style of multiplayer, some better controller-compatibility for Wii/360 (maybe PS3) owners at some extent (huge selling point here), NO TIMED-EXCLUSIVITY, etc. Too bad reviewers might not see it that way though, since it's not Harmonix. >_> Harmonix might have recreated the whole genre, but never forget that without RedOctane, there wouldn't have been Guitar Hero in the first place. Harmonix doesn't seem to know where they want to go with all this rythm game genre. I have to admit though, I'll be playing Rock Band 2 one way or the other because my brother is getting both games anyway...! o_o |
.....Do you realize that Harmonix was the company that made Guitar Hero, and the underlying games that led to Guitar Hero (Amplitude & Frequency)?I know RedOctane came to them to pitch parts of the idea, but Harmonix was still the spearhead of GH.
Harmonix knows exactly where they want this to go. They sold the rights to Neversoft which whored out the series thanks to Activision. GH3 sucked and had nothing new in it, whereas Rock Band was the next logical step in where rhytmn games needed to go - Why didn't RedOctane/Neversoft do the whole World Tour thing with #3 instead of wait another year?
Either way, Rock Band is the superior series. This is like comparing Saints Row to Grand Theft Auto when we're talking about full band implementation - Rock Band has #2 out before Guitar Hero even does #1. RB is a phenominal game, and I don't "get" why people would be upset at a 9.0 rating (however, it is Goldstien, which I can understand the hatred of).
Once I get RB 2, I will have around 175 songs available to play on my X360. That's all the while Activision/Neversoft screw Guitar Hero >3 owners by allowing almost 0% cross-compatability. Outside of the guitars, all that cash was flushed down the toilet, while 100% of every dollar I spent on Rock Band 1 works with Rock Band 2 products.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
