Rumor: Guitar Hero 5 drum set to look an awful lot like Rock Band's

by Ben Gilbert on Jul 6th 2009 5:30PM

Is the drum kit above (to the right) what Guitar Hero 5 will be shipping with when it hits this September? We're not 100% sure, but a trusted source at our sister site Engadget sent in the blurry shot, leading us to believe it could very well be.

The new set bears a strong resemblance to that other full band music/rhythm game -- hey, there's even a lower bar support where the kick pedal could possibly hook on! Additionally, as Engadget rightly points out, the system controls have been moved in front of the pads. The back of the set allegedly features two kick pedal jacks and a "mysterious black mini jack" as well. We've asked for comment from Activision for confirmation of the set and have yet to hear back.

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Tags: activision, drums, engadget, guitar-hero, guitar-hero-5, guitar-hero-world-tour, Microsoft, neversoft, Nintendo, rock-band, rumor, Wii, Xbox-360

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OH SNAP!

The shit is all the same.

With now 60% less plastic!!

So..... Activision copies Harmonix yet again? That's a shocker.

Activision? Stealing from Harmonix? That's impossible!

Harmonix? Stealing from a crapton of different Japanese music games? Saywhat?

why was roto downvoted...?

Because he speaks a hard truth.

Because people don't want to admit that he's actually correct. Harmonix can do no wrong, you know. (Even though people bitch about the DLC every single week because their Hannah Montana dreams still haven't been realized.)

And I guess I do, too. Downvote if you like puppies!

The truth hurts, bitches.

In Harmonix's defence, the Japanese have done jack shit in North America (don't know about Europe) to cultivate their rhythm games. There were a few games release but the only major one I know of is Rock Revolution which did badly at retail.

I'm not a fanboy, I think there are things Harmonix could do better in RB2 like being able to change the difficulty of a song after making a custom setlist. right now, i lose the setlist completely, that or try 5 times to beat a song before raging.

How does that defend Harmonix, exactly? Do you think it's only someone's idea when used in their own country?

cuz we're americans... and we don't steal from other americans... you can get death for that... in texas... anyways, stealing from the japanese is something different entirely

yeeee haaawww

/sarcasm

I fail to see the big deal. A drum set looks like a drum set. Of course there are going to be a lot of similarities between the two. And the only things that are different between the World Tour drums and the GH 5 drums is the bar for the foot pedal and the cymbals.

But also notice the support legs. Even those look very similar to Rock Band's.

Not only that, but the placement of the controller buttons.

Okay, true talk. It don't think Neversoft is trying to steal Harmonix's thunder (with this drum set, anyway), but whenever they try to be different, it just does not end up working. This is why a lot of the "improvements" of the Guitar Hero franchise (full band, the vocal track differences in GHM, "band moments," character customization, constant DLC/DLC being carried over, and now this drum set) are really just them reverting back to the original Rock Band features. It doesn't take that much brain power to see this...

People complain about GH not having certain features that are in RB. But when they are added, (DLC/song transfer, character customization, etc.) then they complain that they are copying Harmonix.

That's definitely true. But I don't think the same audience of people complaining about GH's lack of Rock Band-esque features are the same as the group wanting uniqueness.

I think that Neversoft/Activision need to take the time to start coming up with some unique features for Guitar Hero that actually makes the consumer want to buy Guitar Hero over competition. The "music studio," party play, and maybe the "touch pad" can be seen as a step in the right direction, but I don't want to shell out $60 for those things alone when I already own Rock Band, if you catch my drift.

Not only that, their guitars look the same too. They both have bodies and necks and colored buttons with a strum bar and a whammy bar.

+1

I found that genuinely funny, honestly.

Not the first time someone's stolen the idea for a guitar. Gibson made the Les Paul, then Fender was like "hey, good idea" and made the Stratocaster.

@WRYYYYYY

Way to not know anything about the history of those guitars.

The strat isn't anything like the les paul. And it's based off the telecaster.

Next you're going to say that fender's Precision Bass is a ripoff of gibson.

More like Fender made the Telecaster, then Gibson was like "good idea" and made the Les Paul, then Fender was like "better idea!" and made the Stratocaster, and then Gibson was like "really better idea!" and made the SG.

You speak a hard truth.

Actually... Les Paul made the Les Paul... and Adolph Rickenbacker was actually one of the first to market a solid body electric guitar, before even Fender. Gibson created a guitar mimicking Les's guitar, and presented it to him. He liked it an endorsement deal was done. Also, the SG was designed to be the 'new Les Paul' but Les himself saw it in a window at a store didn't like it, so they called it the SG 'solid guitar' instead, and he ended his endorsement deal.

Fender's Precision Bass is a ripoff of gibson.

Well... HMX were the real innovators of those music/rhythm games....

Which is what I try and tell everybody! I respect Harmonix for what they've done. I don't respect Activision for what they've capatalized on.

....er....I think you mean Konami and their "mania" games were the innovators.

Innovators and inventors aren't the same thing. Just because you came out with it first doesn't mean someone else can't innovate it.

Agreed, Frequency and Amplitude were amazing games, and Rock Band is their modern descendent (and thus every other modern music game is by extension a copy). They weren't the first, but they really jumpstarted the genre.

Yeah, I'm sure Konami never intended their games to be all that popular. They just wanted to foresee companies stealing their ideas in a future time.

All those big ass arcade games were just props to prepare us for the coming of shitty wireless guitars that get $5 at Gamestop.

Those new drums are too blurry for me to use.

They don't look blurry to me. Do you close one eye while masterbating?

*ack*

Why, thats just the Keith Moon Special Edition drumset

I suppose Big Foot is too blurry to be real too.

Well, that's what happens when you don't have a single original idea within your entire company.

Wait, so the drums are flat, and it's missing one? I think I'm looking at the wrong picture.

ION drum set. Best. Set. Ever.

Wow, I can't believe people are crying over this.. Wait until people realize the microphones look the same.

In other news today, a kid was suffocated in his own room when he was unable to exit due to plastic gaming peripherals blocking his path.

I have a feeling this is fake and that the supposed GH5 were more of a prototype of the Rock Band drums. But, I'm a girl, so I'm just feely sometimes.

Feely huh? We should hang ou *SLAP*

I have a feeling that this and all Guitar Hero/Rock Band games suck ass and should be burned.

EDIT: Wow! Sexual harassment through the internet! Fantasic! Do it again and you're banned.

^^ I was just kidding guys, geez!

this gen is making hate and love games both at the same time. activision is leaning me towards the hate tho.

...

Looks like someone just traced a blurry circle around the cymbals. I think they actually have the same shape as the GHWT cymbals. Take a closer look at that picture.

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