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I just picked this up last night and so far so good! The new guitar is sick and comfortable to hold and it feels more substantial than the previously issued ones. I didn't get the whole set, drums, mic and all, but I did get the game and guitar set and it's deff some fun stuff.

I do have 2 complaints so far, the on-screen fret board is about 3/4 the size of all the previous ones... so if you have a smaller tv 32" or less, it makes things a little difficult. You can still make everything out ok and play the notes just fine, but it doesn't need to be that small IMO (hopefully they will have a DL fix for it). The 2nd of my complaints is that the hammer-ons and pull-offs have gotten harder again! In GH3 you could have a button held down before the hammer-on note passed by, well in this you have to hit the note dead on, if you hold the button down early it wount count it. boooo. but im sure it'll just take getting used to.

The track list for the game is pretty decent, although it was made for more than just the guitar peeps to enjoy. It's not a "guitar hero" track list persay with songs that have 3-4 awesome guitar solos, but rather a nice well rounded list. The list resembles a rock bandesq play list, where all the songs they chose have a nice mix of drums, vocals and guitar.


here is the EXTENSIVE list

Quote: 311 - "Beautiful Disaster" 30 Seconds To Mars - "The Kill" Airbourne - "Too Much Too Young" The Allman Brothers Band - "Ramblin' Man" Anouk - "Good God" The Answer - "Never Too Late" At The Drive-In - "One Armed Scissor" Beastie Boys - "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" Beatsteaks - "Hail to the Freaks" Billy Idol - "Rebel Yell" Black Label Society - "Stillborn" Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - "Weapon of Choice" blink-182 - "Dammit" Blondie - "One Way or Another" Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - "Hollywood Nights" Bon Jovi - "Livin' On A Prayer" Bullet For My Valentine - "Scream Aim Fire" Coldplay - "Shiver" Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Up Around The Bend" The Cult - "Love Removal Machine" Dinosaur Jr. - "Feel The Pain" The Doors - "Love Me Two Times" Dream Theater - "Pull Me Under" The Eagles - "Hotel California" The Enemy - "Aggro" Filter - "Hey Man, Nice Shot" Fleetwood Mac - "Go Your Own Way" Foo Fighters - "Everlong" The Guess Who - "American Woman" Hush Puppies - "You're Gonna Say Yeah!" Interpol - "Obstacle 1" Jane's Addiction - "Mountain Song" Jimi Hendrix - "Purple Haze (Live)" Jimi Hendrix - "The Wind Cries Mary" Jimmy Eat World - "The Middle" Joe Satriani - "Satch Boogie" Kent - "Vinternoll2" Korn - "Freak On A Leash" Lacuna Coil - "Our Truth" Lenny Kravitz - "Are You Gonna Go My Way" Linkin Park - "What I've Done" The Living End - "Prisoner of Society" Los Lobos - "La Bamba" Lost Prophets - "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)" Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Sweet Home Alabama (Live)" Mars Volta - "L'Via L'Viaquez" MC5's Wayne Kramer - "Kick Out The Jams" Metallica - "Trapped Under Ice" Michael Jackson - "Beat It" Modest Mouse - "Float On" Motorhead - "Overkill" Muse - "Assassin" Negramaro - "Nuvole e Lenzuola" Nirvana - "About a Girl (Unplugged)" No Doubt - "Spiderwebs" NOFX - "Soul Doubt" Oasis - "Some Might Say" Ozzy Osbourne - "Crazy Train" Ozzy Osbourne - "Mr. Crowley" Paramore - "Misery Business" Pat Benatar - "Heartbreaker" R.E.M. - "The One I Love" Radio Futura - "Escuela De Calor" Rise Against - "Re-Education Through Labor" Sex Pistols - "Pretty Vacant" Silversun Pickups - "Lazy Eye" Smashing Pumpkins - "Today" Steely Dan - "Do It Again" Steve Miller Band - "The Joker" Sting - "Demolition Man (Live)" The Stone Roses - "Love Spreads" Stuck In The Sound - "Toy Boy" Sublime - "Santeria" Survivor - "Eye of the Tiger" System of a Down - "B.Y.O.B." Ted Nugent - "Stranglehold" Tokio Hotel - "Monsoon" Tool - "Parabola" Tool - "Schism" Tool - "Vicarious" Trust - "Antisocial" Van Halen - "Hot For Teacher" Willie Nelson - "On The Road Again" Wings - "Band on the Run" If this isn't enough, you'll be able to use any of your existing Guitar Hero III downloadable content. When World Tour hits shelves, wannabe rock stars will be able to download a variety of new songs, including a Classic Rock Track Pack featuring Foreigner's "Hot Blooded," Boston's "Rock and Roll Band" and Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl." Xbox 360 fans will get a bonus treat with exclusive R.E.M. songs "Horse to Water," "Man-Sized Wreath" and "Supernatural Superserious," though PS3 owners will get their shot at them two weeks later. Also on deck are unannounced Jimi Hendrix tunes (we're crossing our fingers for "Foxy Lady" and "All Along the Watchtower") and a Smashing Pumpkins pack that includes "G.L.O.W.," "The Everlasting Gaze" and "1979." The music wars have begun, and thankfully, it's gamers who will reap all the rewards.

In many ways, Guitar Hero: World Tour is like the younger, brattier brother to Rock Band 2, full of in-your-face attitude, aggressive competition and always one beat away from picking on your performance. And like your little brother, he's just better at almost everything -- or at least thinks he is. Guitar Hero is back in all its splendor, though not without some flaws, as it attempts to be the master of all music games. New to the Guitar Hero series is its full-band set up, featuring a wireless drum kit and guitar alongside a wired mic. The drums are very well made, quiet and with raised cymbals that make all the difference in drumming versus playing Simon. The guitar feels better than any other plastic instrument on the market, outdueling Rock Band's mushy Stratocaster knock-off. The gear is simply great. More than gimmicky hardware, these new instruments actually affect the gameplay; for example, new transparent notes can be played by simply tapping on the touch-sensitive slide bar on the neck of the guitar. Naturally, none of this is a real surprise, as RedOctane has been making quality instruments for some time now, but it's nice to see it in practice. After starting World Tour, your first stop is the Rock Star Creator, the new character customization tool used to build your rock star avatar and design your own instruments. While not as robust as, say, Second Life, it goes a step past Rock Band by allowing you to tweak weight, face shape, nose bridges, etc. As you beat gigs, you'll unlock new wearable gear and new variants for your instruments, though having to buy items you've just unlocked is a drag. The core of Guitar Hero: World Tour is simple: Jam through a series of gigs around the world, playing pre-determined set lists to open more gigs to play more sets, and so forth. There are no specific challenges, though some gigs need to be purchased before play. This aspect of the game is a bit underdeveloped, as despite its attempt at being open-ended, it's rather straightforward and leaves few options. Of course, no one's buying the game to manage a band; they've come to rock, and here's where World Tour excels as a wonderfully authentic Guitar Hero experience that's both deep and accessible. For casual players, songs can be skipped and difficulty changed at will per player, while the more hardcore can focus on cash rewards for great play or dig into stats to see exactly where they're having trouble. On higher difficulties, World Tour is a more complex music game than Rock Band 2, adding in elements like a sixth note for bassists (an open strum), and freeform vocal segments where singers match pitch for bonus points. The truly daring can shred it out against the rabid Guitar Hero community. World Tour offers local and online co-op and band play, a Battle mode where you attack the other player with power-ups, and the good old-fashioned Face-Off. Nothing is more eye-opening than struggling on a Hard song while watching your buddy grind Expert. It's a shame you can't earn anything but bragging rights in these modes, but they are a lot of fun. A music game is only as good as its music, though, and World Tour rocks an 86-song set that reaches far and wide. Recent hits like Linkin Park's "What I've Done" and 30 Seconds to Mars' "The Kill" balance older tunes like Bon Jovi's "Livin' On A Prayer" and Pat Benatar's "Heartbreaker," leaving plenty of hard rock like Black Label Society's "Stillborn" and Ted Nugent's "Stranglehold" for guitar fans and, of course, Van Halen's shred-fest "Hot For Teacher." As its name implies, Guitar Hero: World Tour emphasizes strong guitar play over all else, with some songs picked predominantly for their guitar solo opportunities versus the generally recognizable party favorites of Rock Band 2. Unfortunately, in the quest to keep true to Guitar Hero, the interface suffers. Every important element of the song is tucked away on a Rock Meter to the side of the screen, so if you want to see how much star power you have or how close you are to failing out of the song, you need to look up and away from the music highway -- not a deal breaker during solo play, but problematic if you're jamming with friends. When playing in a band, individual performances are smaller slivers underneath this meter, making them difficult to follow. Worse yet, there's no way to tell how you're doing on a song as star ratings are handed out once you're done. Feedback is important, and in this case, Rock Band 2 does a much better job keeping the game transparent to its audience. Graphically, World Tour looks like a crisper version of Guitar Hero III, but what really shines are the character animations. Certain songs have specific animations tagged for the roles, so a lead singer will bust a move like Michael Jackson during "Beat It" or look into the camera during a key moment of "Crazy Train." Using headliners like Sting and Billy Corgan is fun, especially when they're miscast. You haven't lived until you've watched Ozzy Osbourne belt out "La Bamba." Of course, you could always try to write your own rock classic using the game's innovative Music Studio. The suite of recording tools is an impressive step forward into the world of user-generated content, a very deep, robust music creation engine similar in many ways to the legit recording program Pro Tools. That being said, it's so unwieldy that maybe 1% of all gamers will use it, and only a fraction of those will likely make something worth a listen. The average player may get frustrated with the complexity required to craft a quality song, while the absence of lyrics and poor overall quality of most user-generated stuff makes it hard to want to add any of these tracks to the already-strong set list. We'd love to be proven wrong, however. Either way, virtual musicians looking for a different way to rock will no doubt be pleased with Guitar Hero: World Tour, especially with the new instruments and gameplay mechanics. We played with hardcore and casual rockers alike, all of which had loads of fun regardless of what songs we were playing. Whether you want a good time with friends or a tense battle of the bands, Guitar Hero: World Tour offers an unparalleled experience. Just check your ego at the door.

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stangman

I'm buying this today....

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Charlie

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Therapist

DO WANT, along with COD5 also I saw a behind the scenes look at cod5 and... I gotta have it now

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B00STED4V

deff doooo! i only played it for about 20min last night, but all 20min of it were uber win

do you have a link to said behind the scenes look?

Im preordering the CoD5 collectors edition today after work. You get the CoD5 beta, a code to unlock the M1A1 Garand, AND with the collectors edition ONLY you also get 1 full week of double XP and unlock another gun that is a level 45+ gun. So you get a bunch of stuff when you pre-order it, but it has to be done through Game Stop ONLY. www.gamestop.com

per-ordering the regular edition also gets you the beta and the m1a1, if you dont want to shell out another $20 for the collectors edition

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Therapist

no it was a 1/2 hour deal on spike tv that went and talked to the creaters and showed a bunch of cool shit

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B00STED4V

damn. did they talk about the story line much?

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Therapist

yea its all over ww2, alot of the pacific side of the war and again, theres a hidden mission you unlock at the end of the single player game OH and the best part, theres 2 player co op mode, but get this, you can play it online with your homies rather than having someone sit next to you!!!

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FreeBird

want this, COD5 and Rockband 2 please... with both rockbands new KICKASS guitar, and GH:WT's guitar, id be set. that and the drum kit for one of them is supposed to be 100% badass too. forget which one though...

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FreeBird

oh yeah and this...

Amazon.com: Rock Band Drum, Guitar Skin Combo, Fits Xbox 360 / PS3/2 Rockband - Weeds Black: Video Games

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B00STED4V

hell yeah thats sick!!!

the drums for this are supposed to be badass x's2! raised cymbals and such

Im going to try the music maker part of this when i get home tonight, see if its any good and then try the world tour/campaign part

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B00STED4V

shit yeah! thats so full of win

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FreeBird

drums look ok, but im not sure about the symbols cause they make there be a total of 6 "buttons" the 3 drums, 2 symbols and the footpedal... checking to see if RB drum set for either is compatable with both.... if one is we'll get that one, if both are... i dunno that would just be epic!!!

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Therapist

the unlockable mission is kinda like headquarters only you and your team are holding down a room surrounded by nazi zombies (no I'm not kidding) they come in waves and infinately grow in size and ferocity and even the makers only made it to wave 28...

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FreeBird

holly shit in waves.. that never end... id play that stage for evers trying to find ways to get farther and farther

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B00STED4V

awesome!

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FreeBird

please tell me its got like 50 waves, where wave fifty they litterally come so quick it turns to a cut scene where your character offs himself rather than fight

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B00STED4V

calymores everywhere!

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FreeBird

claymores.. fuck that. you room houses the nazi's exerimental nuke, and you have the option of setting it off...

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Therapist

yea I saw it and I was like the only way it could be better is if they were zombie nazi pirates fighting zombie nazi ninjas

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B00STED4V

that would be epicly epic

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Therapist

its infinate... if you can stay alive it'll go to infinity... and beyond

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FreeBird

perif compatability for RB and GH games, for EVERY CONSOLE!!!!


http://www.joystiq.com/Instrument-Compatibility-Matrix/#Xbox360

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Therapist

you didnt know this?

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FreeBird

no, some of the backwards info has been wrong all over teh net, in the little holes that i frequent... some saying certian perifs didnt cover other things... this list just goes into UBER EPIC detail about what does work with what... just wish i didn't have the few "?" in the mix

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B00STED4V

sweet!

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