See first screens from Guitar Hero: World Tour

I just got a the new game informer with a cover story about Guitar Hero 4. Is this the same thing?

Am I the only one who has lost all interest in this series? I was hyped for GH2 on the 360, got it played it, got bored and don't plan on buying any more.

I'm not trying to start any flames here, I know its a great series. I was just wondering as I seem to be the only one that has lost the love for these games...

Activision is making Guitar Hero the Tony Hawk of the music genre.... the first couple games were fun and new but you get tired of it when they are releasing like two games a year... I'm happy I switch to Rock Band, much better music...

that's neat.. you can customize your character AND your gear. like, literally. We finally get to see the chart maker too. Looks like all the shit made is going to be just that.. charts. all Midi songs? It looks like you have a wide range judging by the shot but at the same time...

let's see a video before I make anymore assumptions, heh. might not be as big of a seller as it sounds though.:\

either way, it's looking good, if not extremely familiar

Hmm, no pic of Clive Winston yet, this does not bode well.

Huh, the post says that "...the new screens from Guitar Hero: World Tour represent a slightly more grown-up look for the series...", but I can't help but notice that the featured screen shot is in a Frat house. With balloons. And Christmas lights.

Will we get to play kids' birthday parties as well?

Is that punk guy floating in mid air?

One problem I see with the drum kit is that, unlike the Rock Band kit, there's no place to anchor the foot pedal. It looks like it's just free to go wherever.

This is good in the aspect that I can place it anywhere that's comfortable, but bad in that it will start sliding around during heavy usage.

They should have just released 1 and added support for more instruments, songs and graphics and DLC.

Except, that wouldn't really work for the Wii.

Nor would they make the ridiculous sums of money off sequels and spinoffs.

Taking a quick glance at the screenshots I noticed some composing options, scales ,etc. Undeniably, it's an interesting implementation but seems rather complicated and perhaps finally justifying the usual "zomg liek y dun u lrn real guitar instead kk" comments.

Meh.

Well considering we still don't have Rock Band here in Australia, there's a good chance that this could be released before, or around the same time as Rock Band.
I've also got a feeling that it'll be cheaper.

On another note, I donno why people are complaining about this game. It was pretty obvious that this was gonna happen after rock band came out...how else would Activision be able to stay compeditive?
I can understand why the people who already have rockband won't be getting this(who honestly expects that the new drums will be compatible?), but for the people who haven't got it already, it gives them choice.
In the end, more choice it better for the consumer as it(should) drive prices down due to competition.

The other thing I hear someone saying was about exclusive DLC tracks. I would have thought that having your song on both Rockband and GH would make more sense since you'd be potentionally expanding your consumer base...in which case, if you went exclusive, you'd wanna be getting a pretty massive cheque to compensate for lost sales from the other game.

I donno...in the end I just hope it's not shit and that it actually gets realeased here. Rockband in September for $1000AUD?(what EB Games is asking for atm) Get real.

A slightly more grown up look. Amazing, where does Activision get their ideas?

Oh yeah. From Rock Band.

Why own a copy when you can own the original?

And yet, the thing I'd REALLY like them to copy from Rock Band is the DLC content and pricing/packaging.

The note chart stuff is definitely interesting, I just don't see Activision pulling it off. I wouldn't mind being wrong here, though.

Wow!! This looks amazing! I was let down by Rockbands graphics and filter use. I always liked GHIII graphics better and their single player was much more fun. If GH's drums are as good or better than Rockbands, than for sure I'll be selling Rockband and getting GuitarHero World Tour.

They'd better not cut Izzy Sparks. :P

Nah they wouldn't cut Izzy...but if they cut Lars, so help me I will...well I don't know what I would do, but you can bet it would be something I would regret.

At least they chose to downscale from HD to SD for the Wii and PS2, instead of upscaling for the Xbox and PS3.

That was just a really dumb move in GH3.

I think it's funny that the graphical style looks lifted from RockBand. I mean I understand that Guitar Hero 3 looks ugly and awkward in comparison to Rock Band, but you'd think they'd just tighten up their graphics instead of charging head first after Harmonix in that style department too.

I don't know. The games are still fun to play, but like when the 360 version came out. I remember being all crazy siked for it. Now its like, Oh? They released a new one? Cool. I like them all, there good party games most of us normally split up which one you own between the freidns and when you get together for your little keggers you have all the GH games and RB.

None the less I think this will still be a good game. Almost no matter what EVERYONE is going to be like "There trying to hard I hate this series now" SO I think as long as there like dont try to do anything crazy with it it'll be good.

THe music selection in all the games are good. You can't really blame them for that, you know how hard it must be? Plus to get the licenses and crap just to have the games on there? No chance that Zeppelin will ever make it to GH (though we can dream) but Zep. wont let them use there songs, and everyone says NEEDS MORE ZEPPELIN!