You can never hate a rhythm game, unless it's Rock Revolution. If the game has a solid soundtrack, good gameplay, and somewhat good graphics, then it's almost impossible to hate it. But to say it's alright well... let's just get on with the review. Guitar Hero: World Tour is the 4th installment in the main series, as some spin-offs have been created, (like Guitar Hero: Aerosmith). This is Neversoft's 3rd console-based Guitar Hero game, and so far they seem to have done a nice job. The new features in Guitar Hero: World Tour are of course the addition of a drums and vocals part. Some others are fully customizable characters and instruments, and a Music Studio mode, where you can create your own songs. Playing the guitar part in GHWT is of course going to be the best out of all the instruments, because well, the series was made for the guitar in the first place. The drums are solid as well, but some expert drummers may feel disappointed if they have been playing Rock Band because the drum parts in World Tour seem a bit easier than they do in Rock Band. Now the vocals. First of all, I do wanna say that I played Rock Band vocals first instead of WT, so if I didn't than I would probably have a different opinion. Now then, the vocals in World Tour are broken, muddled, and a complete mess. Now in Rock Band, the game tells you if you're going the hit the phrase you are singing so it is much easier to 100% songs. But in WT, the game doesn't even tell you how well you hit the phrase until the end of the song. And even if you THINK you hit it perfect, you probably didn't. The game expects you to hit every single note in the entire phrase to 100% it. So then it is basically impossible to FC any song on vocals. Well, mabye the Beastie Boys song, but you would still have to be ultimately perfect to 100% it. Speaking of the Beastie Boys, let's talk about the song list. Guitar Hero World Tour has a good song mix of rock, pop, metal, and even some rap that is actually decent. But one thing, why do we have to have the foreign songs in the mix? I don't have any clue what they are saying, so it makes vocals even more difficult. I guess they are there to make the setlist more diverse, but most English speaking people buy the game anyway, so what's the point? The Music Studio seems the most disappointing though. It is difficult to make songs in it, and even when you have something made up it sounds terrible anyway. The graphics really hasn't changed a bit, but at least the characters on stage have a bit more motion and just don't stand there like robots when playing Scream Aim Fire or something. I guess it's time to wrap up. Guitar Hero World Tour definitely took a big step with the series, but other games like Rock Band have done things much better, and didn't include foreign songs in their setlist. Stupid La Bamba.
This is my first review ever for anything, so hopefully that speaks to how I strongly I feel about this game. First off, I'll mention this. I'm a HUGE Rock Band fan, so you won't get any GH fanboy bias here. Simply ... Read Full Review
i thought wrong. A total waste of money when rock band 2 is the 10 times better than this.. DO NOT BUY GH4... RB2 is way better. The drums in GH4 were supposed to be great but the gameplay is horrible and the touch s... Read Full Review
