/start rant
They contradicted themselves on Best Music/Rhythm Game:
"While Rock Band 2 doesn't quite have the massive amount of updates that Guitar Hero World Tour promises, it does have an absolutely killer soundtrack."
Aside from the fact that the award is about the best game and not the best set list its also kind of pointless that they are comparing a released set list against an unreleased set list. Of course a complete list is going to look better than the incomplete list, if you choose 80+ popular songs and compare it to my list of 15 popular songs and we ask people which they would rather have they are going to choose the 80+ songs because there are at least 5 times as many songs to meet their tastes in music. But that's not even what the award is for to begin with.
And of course Harmonix gets a pass on the fact that they utterly failed to deliver for the Wii while GH:WT delivered what they couldn't and then some. But honestly I'm willing to bet this was written by someone who plays it on the 360 and only looked at it from the perspective of a 360 gamer (which of course means he gets it 6 months ahead with full features where as PS3 owners wait and Wii owners wait and still don't get the full features). Don't get me wrong I'm happy for 360 owners and I hope they enjoy the game, but this isn't "Best Music/Rhythm Game for the 360" its for all consoles, and the Wii version is crippled and that should count against the game but apparently doesn't in his mind.
From an objective standpoint Guitar Hero World Tour is simply a better game. They will both have great set lists, they will both have identical online play, they will both have tons of paid DLC, etc... But RB lacks many of the deep customization features for guitars, drums, characters, etc..., it lacks a full featured music editor, it has a smaller drumkit without raised cymbals, and it lacks a free DLC community. The good news is that RB2 will still be a fantastic game and admitting that World Tour has some awesome features will in no way diminish that.
I understand that folks don't want to buy another set of instruments and are already financially dedicated to RB via instruments and DLC and that's fine, I totally understand you have to budget as a gamer. But that doesn't mean you plug your ears and pretend World Tour doesn't exist (and most of you guys aren't, this is just my rant against this guy so don't take it personal). And again the good news is that if you tough it out with RB2 and wait for RB3 I'm confident they will add these missing features and then go a step further by adding awesome new features of their own. But until then please...just give credit where it is due.
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Ok I feel better 