Personally, I don't like the feel of the new World Tour guitar controller. In fact, I regret buying it (complete guitar game). Figured it was only an extra $40 with the game, but I would rather have just bought one of the new Rock Band guitar controllers instead.
I don't like the touch sensitive fret bar. It has no feedback (no raised fake frets) and it's only active during fret slide sections. Since there is no fret slide game play in Rock Band, they serve no purpose in that game. Lastly, the fret board is too thick. When a toy controller is thicker than a real electric guitar, it's too thick. And the strum bar is too clicky.
While I'm sure plenty of people like it, after using the Fender controller, I wouldn't want to use anything else.
WT drum kit looks better since the "cymbal" layout on the standard RB set is weak, but the new RB drum kit with the additional cymbal kit would probably be even better still (unfortunately it adds another $40).
Since the WT drums don't work with RB, and the RB drum kit works with WT... if you have both games, it's pretty obvious which one should be bought (RB drums don't work with WT drum tutorial mode).
As for the games themselves, I'm playing RB2, and WT is not being played at all. The recording studio is the one innovative feature, but composing tracks is a bigger chore and much clunkier than say composing tracks in Garage Band for the Mac with poorer sounding results.
From a track selection standpoint, Rock Band has a huge back catalog of DL songs, whereas WT has just started creating a catalog (since all GHIII tracks were guitar only).
If you have the original RB, it's totally worth paying $5 to transfer 55 tracks to the RB2 play list. With the additional 20 free DL tracks, that's a huge play list to start out with, even before you've started unlocking RB2 tracks in tour mode.
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