Guitar Hero: World Tour lacks a 'No Fail' option

by Ross Miller on Sep 3rd 2008 7:00AM

Serving as a great anecdote for the old saying, "You don't know what you got 'til it's gone," an Activision representative has confirmed that Guitar Hero: World Tour will be lacking Rock Band 2's party-friendly "No Fail" option, either as a menu option or as a cheat code. Also interesting is that you can't save your bandmates should one fail; instead, you can comparatively miss more notes than in RB and stay alive.

The lack of a "No Fail" option certainly isn't going to be a game-changer -- after all, its predecessors (including RB1) sold very well without it. And although the virtual rock elitist might scoff at the notion that it's now harder to fail songs, GH:WT does have the added bonus of presenting a detailed analysis of your performance after each song (we've placed an exemplary image after the break Update: Now it really is after the break). We'll have more on our time at PAX 2008 with the game, specifically the drums, later this week.

Tags: ghwt, guitar-hero, guitar-hero-world-tour, PC, PS3, rock-band, rock-band-2, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (55)

I think this "NO FAIL" option thing is getting blown out of proportion. I'd rather not choose a side seeing as how GHWT hasn't even come out yet, but it seems as though they keep saying "We are better/we do it better" at everything RB does.

For those against the No Fail option, remember that it can be turned OFF. In fact, it's probably OFF by default so one would have to turn it on to use it.
I wonder if you can turn on NO FAIL for just certain instruments, that would be cool.

Anyhow as someone said before, it seems like GHWT is 4 players playing simultaneously instead of together... if it's true, then 'meh' to that. RB is a party game, one that has my friends who NEVER play video games get up and play.

News Flash: GH3 has lax fail requirements as well, mostly to make the absurd note charts more tolerable.

I do wish Rock Band would get the detailed performance reports, though. I don't know why Harmonix ditched 'em.