Rock Band 2 or Guitar Hero World Tour: What should you buy?

[Elliot B.]

Guitar Hero World Tour

Pros:

- Track creation mode for beginners and high end users alike

- 3 drums, 2 cymbals

- Quieter than RB drums, also pressure sensitive drum pads

- Compatible with GH

- New guitar with touchpad keys

- All characters from GH2 & 3, plus new real rock stars

- Massive custom character & instrument creator

- Online & offline band career mode

- Room for 100 custom tracks, can download 200 custom tracks and upload five at a time

- Set list including Van Halen, Linkin Park, Sublime, Foo Fighters, Billy Idol (over 85 songs)

Cons:

- Creation lacks ability to use vocals

- Not compatible with Rock Band

- GH3 downloadable songs not compatible with GHWT

- GH3 DLC came in a slow stream, will it improve for GHWT?

Rock Band 2

Pros:

- Downloadable content is backwards compatible

- Improved instruments, less noise

- Old RB instruments will work with RB2

- Rumored Band World Tour online

- Massive library of DLC already, 156 songs

- Rumored solo mode for various instruments

- Full album downloadable content

- Rumored songs include Cheap Trick, Megadeath, System of Down, Linkin Park, (at least 80 songs)

Cons:

- No user created track mode

- No confirmation of wireless 360 guitars (yet)

- Delayed release for PS2/PS3/Wii, 360 first, others later

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[Nic]

Thanks for this. I'll be buying both, but this is a very nice list showings the pros and even the cons.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

GH for me it looks like (Y)

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

I've pretty much set my mind on GH, the drum set looks sweet :yes: Plus creating custom tracks pretty much means anything on Rock Band can be created in GH anyways.

[gigapixels Veteran]

I'll probably go with RB2 as it won't make my wallet hurt as much.

[j.r.l.]

It's Megadeth, not Megadeath.

[Numpad]

i got guitar hero 3 and loved it... to me rock band is an imposter :p

so its always gonna be GH all the way

[+shift. MVC]

Probably going to get RB2 whenever I get around to saving up for a PS3.

[PyX]

Hmmm, I like my Rock Band a hell lot more than Guitar Hero. I really love the singing and the drumming features.

Don't worry about the wireless guitar on the 360. (well it was wireless for Rock band 1, right? cuz it is on my ps3...)

The guit has no improvements to me in RB2. Let's wait for the new drum, it better be more silent.

Also, DLCs are a lot better in Rock Band...

[magik]

Freaking, I hate the fact that the instruments are not cross-title compatible. Even more annoyed that RB2 won't have a create-a-song feature since that is, without a doubt, the biggest incentive for those two games. I'm really tempted to lose the money on the RB stuff that I already bought just for this feature. Man, gonna be a tough decision. :no:

[+Mystic MVC]

Thanks for this. I'll be buying both, but this is a very nice list showings the pros and even the cons.

Wow, just wow. That is over $300 for 2 games. How can you ever bring yourself to spend that much money for the same cost of 5 games or a whole new system, not to mention the millions of other possibilities $300 will get you. :blink:

[DreadBoat89]

i wonder if GH World Tour will still have the difficulty edge over RB2

[Boktai1000]

Anyone that plays this on a Wii is going to want to choose GH over RB, I have a Guitar Hero 2 guitar for the 360 and the rock band drums, but hoping this guitar is compatible with rock band 2 ill probably get both games and not buy the instruments (except mabe the guitar hero drums because rock bands probably wont work)

[DrDrrae]

i got guitar hero 3 and loved it... to me rock band is an imposter :p

so its always gonna be GH all the way

You know that Rock Band and Rock Band II is created by Harmonix (who developed Guitar Hero 1, 2, and Encore: Rocks the 80s) and Guitar Hero III and Guitar Hero World Tour was created by Neversoft, right?

[+Mystic MVC]

i wonder if GH World Tour will still have the difficulty edge over RB2

I hope it does, but to a certain extent. GH III's difficulty was insane near the end of the expert campaign and Activision even admitted to it. I think this turned off a lot of players, so now Activision has to find a happy medium which is close to impossible. :p

I think for it to be a success (GH III), it has to be tougher than RB 2.

[morficus]

custom track creation?

GH takes the prize in my eyes

Freaking, I hate the fact that the instruments are not cross-title compatible.

yeah.. that ****ed me off from GH3 and RB1 originally... if they gear was cross-title compatible.. I would have gotten them both with out a doubt, and I'm sure I'm not the only one what would have

[Ayepecks]

Harmonix > Neversoft, easily.

I doubt I'll get either, though.

[+Mystic MVC]

I forgot to add earlier something I thought about the other day concerning GH III's custom song creation.

The system has been detailed yet and all we have been given is very short briefs correct? I know a lot of people (especially in this thread) are banking on the custom song creation, but if it just plain sucks, then what? I think people just need to hear a little bit more about the system before deciding if you have choose one or the either.

[Ajapi]

It is absurd of them not to allow cross-compatibility between titles. A vast majority of current Rock Band users would purchase upcoming Guitar Hero installments in a heartbeat if they could use their instruments with it, and vice versa. Software sales would skyrocket, since there is a very limited group of people willing to buy both sets of games and keep separate instrument kits. Not only is it expensive, but also unwieldy!

They don't lose anything at all by enabling compatibility across their platforms, since they'd just induce sales they wouldn't have gotten in the first place had the consumer been forced to chose between one or the other.

[magik]

Except, how is GH4 going to make money on DLC when you could just make your own songs? There's got to be a catch.

[Ji@nBing]

Except, how is GH4 going to make money on DLC when you could just make your own songs? There's got to be a catch.

The DLC will have vocals, and be the original recordings. Custom tracks will not.

[PyX]

Yeh, that custom track creation and the ability to download others' tracks will surely boost the sales of guitar hero 4 of a good 2000%.

[CactuzJak]

Definitely will be getting GH4, undecided about Rock Band 2 though, I really despised the guitar for Rock Band, if it's anything remotely similar I won't be getting it.

[Guest]

Will the GH instruments work with Rock Band 1 & 2? The GH3 guitar works with Rock Band if I'm not mistaken.

If that is the case, that'd seal the deal for me.

[Matrix XII]

I'm done with those games. I played GH2 and 3 till my fingers were in horrible pain. One day I stopped playing, and haven't even thought to since.

Essentially they are the same games over and over with minor tweaks and new songs.

If I were to choose between the two however I'd go with Guitar Hero. I found RB quite easy, and I really wasn't into the whole drum or singing thing.

To me, the novelty has worn off, and it will happen to others as well.