Thursday, December 11, 2008

Guitar Hero?

During my gameplay of Guitar Hero 3 I felt like a god(ess). The songs were fast-paced and challenging. When I 5-starred Raining Blood on the Medium difficulty I felt like my life was complete. Passing Through the Fire and the Flames on Hard gave me immortality! Recently, a new addition to the Guitar Hero family was bestowed upon us. World Tour was a fair attempt at copying Rock Band (who copied GH to begin with). There is a drum set and a microphone to go along with the bass and lead guitars now. You can have a band in your own living room :O! I was impressed with the song list at first; there were many songs that I knew and were excited to play. Once I got about halfway through the story mode however, I realized that it felt like I was playing on Easy! The songs didn't get hardcore and difficult. I even switched up to expert and didn't fail a song until near the end! I could never imagine playing Guitar Hero 3 on the expert... after the first few sets I started failing every song! I felt like I was accomplishing nothing while playing World Tour. I ended up going back to good ol' GH3 and I felt like I had mad skillz again. Thank you, GH3, thank you. <3

1 comment:

TheBoxNinja said...

They are similar (Rock Band and Guitar Hero) because both the games were developed by Harmonix.

Well... kind of.

GHI was developed primarily by Neversoft.
GHII was developed primarily by Harmonix.
GHIII was developed primarily by Neversoft as well.

Since Harmonix was displeased with GHIII they went "lets make one better" and made Rockband.

However, saying that Rockband copied Guitar Hero is like saying that Team Fortress 2 copied counter strike.

Since Rockband is just the same genre of game, it isn't really a copy, they did change the ideal drastically. They took a guitar and went "look DRUMS, and a MIC, and a BASS. YAY TOGETHERNESS".

It can be said however that World Tour was lame. It was taking their idea and going "yay! we can... pretty much paraphrase Rock Bands!"