Guitar Hero: World Tour trailer promises 'most realistic drums,' other stuff

Playing fake instruments was cool when you were racking up high scores on a Konami arcade machine. Owning fake instruments was cool when you were the only kid on the block to own Samba De Amigo shakers for the Dreamcast. But it's gone too far. Everyone and their mothers owns Guitar Hero. Rhythm games have lost all their underground coolness.

The part I hate most is people's illusion of being rockers. No, you're playing a toy guitar and drums. A TOY! Back in the day, there was no illusion of being a rocker. The cool part was because it was a quirky Japanese game that few people even knew about, and even fewer were good at.

if the get some proper DLC, im sold. Rock band is taking to long over here, i have to wait even longer for the PS3 version.

Its all a bit shish.

Or maybe ill just stick with GH3 on Pc and custom tunes

No Neversoft.

You're not making me buy ANOTHER set of plastic instruments.

NO.

Alright! Lame actors and Lenny Kravitz, talk about dissuading your customers.

So wait...people now get to create and record their own music? So I get to serf through sites like YouTube and not only do I have to avoid people playing the songs that are already in the game like crap I get to avoid them playing even worse songs like crap? God help us all.

If this has Battle of the Bands (as advertised), Rock Band has no excuse not to include it in an update.

First the DS commercial, now this... when did the Disney Channel kids take over Guitar Hero? I'm older than 15, this ad makes me think I should just stick to growing beards and buying M-rated shooters.

Fernando Rocker: There was a time when I would have agreed with you, but I gotta say that with me being as good as I am at Guitar Hero now I must say that GH3's harder difficulty is quite appealing There are times when Rock Band is, dare I say it, boring for me. Don't get me wrong, I love the party experience, especially the drums, but I do feel that the guitar parts are at times inferior to GH3.

I think the whole "record your own single" thing looks pretty tight...

The drum set looks like its alot better then the Rock Band one but I don't have any more room for more fake instruments, especially another drum set.

Dear guitar hero,
Where do you get off? Just when I write you off, you make a very attractive looking package and suck me back in. Who do you think you are? If you haven't realized by now, I have nothing but positive things to say about your upcoming game.
P.S. I'm not buying another drum set, and guitar and DLC. You were too late. Rock Band ftw.

will guitar hero support the dlc with more then 3 songs every other month ? i think whoever has the better dlc will probably win . i just want to know what company will put out the drum set with the chimes ,cowbell,and gong. add anything else i forgot to the drumkit .

Safe to assume Lenny Kravitz "Are You Gonna Go My Way" is in the new game? I say it is...

This only makes me want Rock Band 2. With new songs, stats screen & BAND VS./BWT mode online. They already nailed the gameplay.

I love how they start the trailer:

"The Guitar Hero experience... reinvented."

That's really funny-I thought that the Guitar Hero experience was reinvented in November 2007... when Rock Band started shipping...

That commercial/trailer makes me not want to buy that game. Hope I don't look that retarded when I play. Good thing I'm drunk whenever I play.

Anybody else thing "Guitar Hero: World Tour" is just stealing "Band World Tour" mode from Rock Band? Personally I wish these companies would stop fighting on hardware (is Konami REALLY putting out different drum set with 6 hit pads?) and just make them all compatible. Gamers in the music genre would just buy all the games then. I guess they have to try and force their competitors out of business, which will end up each of them getting a smaller piece of the pie.

Lenny Kravitz=FAIL

hey you guys! i hate guitar hero too! i love rock band! i don't own it, but i love it! it's so cool! guitar hero sucks! can i be your friend? please? can i? you guys are so cool!

Unrelated, this song reminds me of some good, old days with GT3.

I bet this is going to come out before the PS3/Wii versions of Rock Band in the UK...

They're just following a trend more than they're pushing it.

um, for those of you who were bashing RB's lack of guitar difficulty, RB is meant to be more of a party game, not solo. That's why GH3 is much harder. It focuses ONLY on the guitar. RB has all four parts of a band, and have narrowed it to focus on that one intrument. Besides, what do you expect with GH: WT? That the guitar will be as hard, if not harder than before? because if so, it'll lose alot of customers

i dont get what everyone likes about these games? I went to my sisters friends house and played rock band for a couple hours and I was bored as hell. Of course its all they wanted to play, all people who dont play other video games.

My brother also owns GH3, and ive played that, but get bored after playing a couple songs. I mean the gameplay is the same thing over and over, and its just hitting the buttons at the right time. I would rather play a game with actual gameplay and just listen to music from my mp3 player/radio.

hey i just went to home depot and went to the tool section and strangely all the shells were covered with this video.

guitar hero sucks now
rockband is and always will be the shit

this is the saddest excuse of trying to make a more popular product. neversoft blows penis balls at making music games. metal sucks balls. guitarhero 3 nearly made me throughout all red octane related games but then i realized that harmonix made them to so i stoped.

JJ Rooster,

I don't think this is a knockoff attempt. If what they say is true, as in the expert mode being exactly how the real drummer plays the song on real-life drums, then this may actually help drummers learn to play their favorite songs on real drums. I think Activision has the right idea here.

I'm glad that they they made a statement that the controllers for this game will be in good quality. My wireless controller on GHIII for 360 has a few frustrating problems. I'm buying the big bundle since I need 2 guitars anyway.

I don't see why everyone complains about guitar hero coming out with drums. If you already have rock band. DONT BUY GUITAR HERO!! that simple. You don't have to whine about how your going to have to lose space and money for a second set of everything, when really, you don't HAVE to get it. I'm also sure if they didn't make the next game a little harder than the last one, no one would really take an interest to it, it will just be another list of songs. Also, the whole DLC thing, who cares how many songs you can download?? If you have to download songs every week, then the beginning playlist must've sucked, so they have to shoot out other songs to appease all their little "rockers" lol. Also, people who complain about people thinking they are rockers, they are playing a freakin video game, im sure they know they aren't really rocking out at a concert. Shut ur freaking mouths and stop complaining about everything.