Guitar Hero: World Tour is released over here on November 7th, and we’ve been assured that you’ll be able to buy the disc and instruments separately, as well as everything together in a big pack.
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If you’re interested in the full track listing, you can see it here. Every song is a master recording, too, which is a huge bonus compared to the original game’s covers – as good as they were, they don’t sound too great these days. Ozzy Osbourne, Blink 182, The Eagles, Steely Dan, Korn, Fleetwood Mac, Van Halen, The Doors, The Cult, Jane’s Addiction, Stone Roses, Motorhead and the Sex Pistols are all involved, as are dozens more. The list of artists involved is mind-boggling. The track list – which spans some 86 songs – covers the gamut: The Enemy line up alongside Nirvana, System of a Down and Michael Jackson. Hotel California and Livin’ on a Prayer sit alongside What I’ve Done, by nu-metal whiners Linkin Park, and Misery Business by the emo-lite Paramore. While it’s always going to be a somewhat subjective choice, there’s no denying that the latest instalment of Guitar Hero offers plenty of quality songs, both classic and modern. So, the instruments are spot on and it’s a stunning party game – but the success of World Tour lives and dies, arguably, on its track listing. This meant that it was often obvious when a guitar note had gone wrong thanks to the loud clunky sounds, whereas it was more difficult to tell when you’d screwed up the bass.
This was true, no matter what the instrument, too – although some are harder to hear than others, with some songs drowning out the bass a little to favour the guitars.
We tried a variety of songs – including Slide Away by Oasis and Livin’ on a Prayer by Bon Jovi – on a several difficulty levels (there’s now a new ‘beginner mode’) and found that the note charts were spot on, accurately representing the song we were playing at the time.
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In-game, World Tour was polished, professional and a ludicrous amount of fun. While the graphics retain their usual cartoonish charm, they’re somewhat wasted when you always have to concentrate on other things. The same criticism can be levelled at World Tour here, though – if you’re in the midst of a solo you’re just not going to notice the intricate animations that are going on behind the fret boards. Career mode will have the usual raft of new venues, and there are a few new musicians (including a Mod-type rocker and more) that should add a bit of variation to proceedings. Our time with the game – on Xbox 360, although we expect all the major console revisions of the title will follow the same formula – revealed that the core gameplay hasn’t changed much. It obviously helps to have a voice that’s vaguely in tune, but it’s really just like singing karaoke, although with the obvious benefit of having the backing band in the room with you. While the three instruments scroll vertically at the bottom of the screen – lead guitar, drums and bass respectively, from left to right – vocals travel across, horizontally, with the pitch of the notes attached. Singing works in a manner similar to that of the hugely successful SingStar franchise – evidently, developer Neversoft (of the Tony Hawks games) has obviously decided to not fix what isn’t broken.
The microphone still needs a USB connection, but any USB microphone will work with the game. The guitar is still wireless, as is the drum kit. It’s especially important when you’re prancing around the living room trying to be Eric Clapton. The buttons felt a little tougher and less liable to break, as did the whammy bar – there’s a bit more resistance, now, but this just makes the plastic guitar feel that little bit more real.
Our hands-on time with the guitar revealed that any changes were minor rather than sweeping. Towards the body of the guitar, though, is a new pressure-sensitive area for particularly enthusiastic solos: in the middle of a solo, if an entire fret glows a certain colour – rather than just the note – it’s a signal that you can wave your finger up and down the touch-sensitive pad to create customised solos. It’s the same size as the Guitar Hero 3 unit, too. The guitars are broadly similar – five buttons at the top of the neck, a strum bar and whammy bar for showing off. While the cymbals and other enhancements do mean that the drum kit is arguably more realistic than the set offered by the Rock Band franchise, it does mean that the drums are the hardest instrument to pick up and play – it’ll take a few failed songs before you get the hang of the basic rhythms required and, in our experience, it was the toughest instrument to get the hang of.
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