Wii Warm Up: Rock Band 2 vs World Tour

Yep, too early.

And the least you could do is make a poll for us to complain and whine about ;)

You'd need two drum sets? The only thing you'd need two of would be guitars.

ummm... lol rockband 2 has plastic guitars and mic but the drums are real man, money worth spent.

VGChartz, at least, doesn't have sales numbers up except for last weeks numbers, and Rock Band Wii isn't in that list... As it got released last Tuesday, I bet we won't see any numbers for its sales for another few days...

VGchartz released their figures:

http://www.vgchartz.com/aweekly.php

In America, Rock Band Wii sold ~131,500... Doesn't sound like that many units to me, but for the price they're charging, I guess that's decent?

131,000 units is probably not bad, actually. Especially given the price.

First I was waiting to see if GHIII or RB had a better product.
Then RB announced that it was stripping out modes.
Then GHIII went down in price.
I bought GHIII.
I will be buying GH:WT.

Few of your points are true about the games on Wii, though. RB is not well-polished or well-made, and it has no DLC. On Wii, RB is the sloppy cash-in and GH is the polished game.

I'd give RB the award on 360/PS3, but on Wii, Harmonix has screwed the pooch.

GH3 isn't actually any more polished on the Wii, it's just that Harmonix got lazy and ported the ps2 version over to Wii instead of the full versions that 360/ps3 got. Rock Band still has the better note charts.

However, after playing Aerosmith, I am much more satisfied with Neversoft's charting. They are learning. I told people to give them another chance, and they have indeed improved.

Also, we have Hyperspeed online, and the online Co-op bug is fixed!

i liked neversofts note charting all along...

i have both rock band and guitar hero 3.

i found rock band easy compared to guitar hero and in single player i found guitar hero much more fun, because of the note charts! i think their difficulty made the game much more fun to me, for most of rock band i was falling asleep! also aerosmith i found way too easy too, kinda a dissapointment in the difficulty department.

either way i'll be getting guitar hero:)

but rock band just bored me, and i didnt buy much dlc for the 360 version cos i actually chose to buy the guitar hero 3 stuff instead, since that was the game that actually was resonably hard! and it still makes me feel great when i play it, activision got that game near perfect imo, as a guitar only game anyway.
rock band annoys me, especially the small rectangles, they just seem to be harder to hit or something:s
and don't say it's because the note windows bigger on guitar hero because even with precision mode i nail the majority of them.

either way i'll get guitar hero and then probably rb2 (game only) when it releases in europe (next year?)

To each his own, I guess. But I don't know a single person who agrees with that sentiment.

I can't wait to see what Harmonix does to try to "one-up" Guitar Hero.

Agreed.

If RB2 isn't gimped, and I have full access to DLC...AND if I can use the RB2 instruments on RB1 (that way I can just get the disc alone)...then it'll be a tough choice. Harmonix would also have to improve the quality of the instruments and include damn near everything that GH:WT has. I really don't see it happening, but they're free to prove me wrong.

Question, though. Will the GH:WT guitar be compatible with GH3? 'Cause I never got a second GH3 guitar, and it'd be nice to unlock some of those songs in co-op mode (a couple of the game's best songs are in there).

Luke,

I don't know if you are against cheats but there is a cheat for getting all the songs in GHIII. That is the GH:WT guitar isn't compatible you can use that! Here is the link:

http://cheats.ign.com/ob2/068/899/899094.html

Luke,

If they don't work with GH3 there is always the cheat that gives you all the songs!

http://cheats.ign.com/ob2/068/899/899094.html

"I think they would steal a lot of customers who were going to buy GH:WT"

You mean reclaim, right? Cause Harmonix did GH before Activision bought Red Octane. Activision hasn't added anything to the genre. They bought GH, and just copied Harmonix with the full-band experience. Of course, Harmonix screwed up pretty badly with Rock Band on the Wii, so I'm not committing to a purchase of RB2 until I see that all the features have made it into the Wii version.

"Activision hasn't added anything to the genre."

Maybe not with GH3 (which didn't bother me because it was my first GH game), but that's definitely not true in the case of World Tour. Adding other instruments was an inevitable and obvious decision; it's not copying Rock Band any more than Harmonix copied Konami's GuitarFreaks.

GH:WT has vastly improved the drumkit and included a song-creation mode, and I much prefer the Wiimote-integrated instruments (instant wireless with no extra batteries). While we're on technical stuff, Activision/Vicarious Visions did what Harmonix claimed was impossible by allowing DLC to be saved and read from an SD card.

Those are some pretty significant additions, all of which Harmonix has yet to do. And again, I have a feeling that RB2 is rushed; I'll be surprised if they make the September release with a high-quality product intact. It'll be good, but not groundbreaking enough for me to choose it over GH:WT.

lol well gh wt will have broken drums,i think the cymbals will break, i think the pedal with bust in half, gh wt is just a copy of rb1 because if gh wt was smart, they would put metal on there pedal. And if your a drummer or wanting to learn drums, get rockband 2, if u just wanna i dono play something easier on drums but harder on guitar then i guess gh wt. but i am dissopointed in gh, they should have kept it as the guitar and rock band as the band but those dumb asses had to become a band but it's gonna fail, i just know it. Rockband has better graphics, i think, cause gh3 had terrible graphics and rb1 looked amzing cause they moved better but some band members looked weird but still good. Harmonix is a good company and actually know there intruments and all that jazz and the drums have 4 pads, 3 cymbals(cymbals sold sepratly) and is a real electronic ion drum kit man ,metal pedal and looks better and is harder and is good for drumming in life or in a game. bam.

lol well rb1 did have broken drums. i went thru 3 sets cuz they're so freaking fragile. another thing, what makes you so sure that the drums are easier on ghwt compared to rb1 or rb2? do even understand the concept of charting? it's not like the guitar, where the notes are always changing with the sound. the drums remain consistent and only change to accommodate different parts of the drums (more toms and cymbals). also, the drums for rock band are the same as the first ones. they're just wireless, velocity sensitive, slightly more quiet, and of course, your important, game making metal pedal. there are 3 cymbals that can be added to the stock set, but it most likely won't even be that big of a deal on account the game will prolly still keep the same sounds (hitting yellow/high-hat will still most likely make a tom noise on fills and finishes). the ion drum set is a seperate accessory that is compatible with the game and prolly still will keep the sounds same among the colors. The guitar hero world tour drums will have proper sounds matching with the instrument more consitent compared to rb. BAbam.

im indifferent between these games, i just read that last reply and saw a lot of missing and incorrect information. so i thought i'd give my five cents worth on this. :D

im with you!
i really really really do love guitar hero 3 to death!
it is probably my most played game. ever! i got rock band too, but was immidiatly dissapointed, and aerosmith was alright, too easy imo.

can't wait for world tour though, and everlong. everlong! EVERLONG!!!!