Since the very first Guitar Hero game in 2005, Activision and RedOctane have been the leaders of the music game industry, until, 2 years after the Guitar Hero release, Rock Band was released into America.
Harmonix were the original developers of Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero 2, but after the release of Guitar Hero 2, Harmonix moved onto a new publisher, MTV Games and EA to see if they could find bigger better thigns, which they did. After the old developers, Harmonix left, new guys Neversoft moved in and started to create a new game, Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock, this was then released in the later part of 2007. The game proved to be a winner, until later that year, Harmonix came back into the business with their new game Rock Band. This game featured a whole set of instruments, guitar, drums, bass and mic.
After a year of Rock Band being out, both publishers, Activision and EA both released a new music game into the market. Guitar Hero World Tour from Activision and Rock Band 2 from EA, let battle commence.
From Guitar Hero’s view, this was a new venture for them, a new range of instruments, but they certainly hadn’t cut any corners. Their new guitar has a brand new touch sensitive bar to allow easy finger tapping during song sections, their new drums also feature 5 pads and a foot peddle instead of the 4 pads and foot peddle on the Rock Band drums. Aswell as a whole new range of shiny instruments, the game features a music maker where you can create and share your own songs.
On the Rock Band 2 side, Harmonix haven’t changed their instruments much. They have improved the drum set by making it velocity sensitive, basically the harder you hit the pad the louder the sound in game makes, they also changed the foot peddle to metal as people found they broke the plastic one. Except for a few minor changes, not alot has changed instrument wise.
On the game side of things, Rock Band don’t have a music maker, however, they do have one thing that Guitar Hero does not; a huge selection of downloadable songs on top of their 80+ song set list. This also gets better, if you have previously bought any Rock Band 1 songs, they are all compatible with Rock Band 2 and they all appear on your setlist when you load up the game. Another advantage is that for a small fee of less than $5, you can tranfser most of the songs from Rock Band 1 onto Rock Band 2.
Now comes the difficult decision, after each game has had its advantages listed, it comes to deciding which ones you should spend your money on. Considering all the economic problems recently, many people will only have the money for one game, plus the only the space for one set.
Because both sets of instruments are compatiable with either game, many people will be deciding whether they want the new features and suited up instruments of Guitar Hero or the large expandable set list and experiance of Rock Band.
At the moment it’s hard to tell which game will come out on top to be the master of the music game industry, all I can say is, let the battle of the bands commence.
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