Guitar Hero World Tour (PS3) (Game Only)

Gamecow’s Price	RRP $89.95     Save $40.00 $49.95
Availability
Genre	Party Games
Platform	Playstation 3
Release Date	12/11/2008
Rated

Guitar Hero World Tour totally rocks.  This is one of those must have party games which everyone, no matter what their age, will have hours of fun playing.

Here is to scenarios where the Guitar Hero World Tour will come into its own:

1. Your kids have their friends over and there will be kept entertained for hours jamming.  This is a great fun game for kids to live out their inner rock star.
2. Your mates come over, you have some beers, order a pizza, and afterwards you all play this game.  You will have so many laughs playing this game.
3. It is family games night, parents and kids can pretend they are in their own band, just like the Partridge Family (without bad clothes, a stupid bus and David Cassidy)

Guitar Hero World Tour is the ultimate is party game.

Guitar Hero World Tour (PS3) (Game Only) Product Information

Guitar Hero World Tour delivers more ways to play than ever before. Virtual musicians can live out their rock and roll fantasies by playing either a single instrument, or any combination of instruments, in addition to the full band experience. In addition to all of the online gameplay modes from Guitar Hero® III: Legends of Rock, Guitar Hero World Tour introduces Battle of the Bands mode which allows eight players to join online and challenge each other band-to-band to determine who is the best of the best.

In the Band modes, up to four players can jam together, online or off, as they progress through the game, and in single-player Career Mode, players can jam on any of the instruments in branching venue progression enabling them to rock out in the order of their choice.

The game's innovative new Music Studio lets players express their musical creativity by giving them access to a full complement of tools to create digital music from scratch, utilizing all of the instruments, and then play their compositions in the game. Music creators will also be able to share their recordings with their friends online through GHTunes™ where other gamers can download their unique compositions and play them.

Guitar Hero World Tour (PS3) (Game Only) Review

The Guitar Hero franchise reinvigorated the music game genre in the Western world. The genre was once dictated by the Beatmania and Guitar Freak releases from Japanese developers that had little appeal towards a Western audience. When RedOctane and Harmonix joined forces to develop Guitar Hero, they created a beast that would soon become a phenomenon across the world (except in Japan, where “cutesy” Japanese pop beat titles still infect store shelves).

With the latest edition to the franchise, Guitar Hero World Tour goes in the direction of Rock Band to provide the ultimate band experience. With an enormous track list - all of which are master tracks - some new controllers and decreased difficulty, is Guitar Hero World Tour worth the price of admission?
The career mode will take you a few hours to get through and the Guitar Hero diehards will find plenty of challenge in the later gigs. It’s a massive track list and with the certainty of future downloadable track packs, WT offers plenty of value in career mode.

Playing as a band in career mode is a different story though. Overall, it’s a confusing and illogical set-up. The career mode layout is fine for solo gameplay, but when you’re playing with mates in a band, it just feels as like the game should offer a little more than extra tracks.

Guitar Hero World Tour is still a hell of a lot of fun to play. The guitar and bass gameplay is still as enjoyable and challenging as it has been in previous GH titles and with the addition of the drum kit and microphone for lyrics, WT offers a really fun experience.

If you’ve at all followed the development of WT, you’ll know that it has a very impressive track list. It felt as if Activision were announcing a new famous rock artist every week, from Jimi Hendrix to Blink 182 to Van Halen and Tool. Even better is the fact that every single song in the game is a master recording, not a cover. While the covers in previous GT titles got the job done, nothing can compare to the real thing. GHWT has an insanely good track list
The singing part of WT hits a high note, with an enjoyable and perfectly developed system that is enjoyable as well as challenging. Each song's high and low pitched words are generated onto the screen through a string the dips up and down depending on the note. The words are broken up just like in any good karaoke game and overall, the microphone and singing part of WT is a great addition.

The Final Verdict

Guitar Hero World Tour is a really fun game to play. It expands on Guitar Hero III with a deeper and better track list, all of which are master tracks. The inclusion of the drum kit and microphone add plenty of value to a series that was already known for its lastability. The drum kit isn’t perfect but it’s a hell of a lot of fun to play with. The lyric system is fantastic and overall rounds out a band experience that is on-par with Rock Band. The recording studio has its problems with lag, but it’s a feature that Neversoft should definitely expand on it future iterations. The presentation maintains the wackiness and cartoony feel from previous GH titles. Overall, with plenty of downloadable content to come, an awesome track list and great instrument controllers and gameplay, Guitar Hero World Tour is a show you just have to experience from the front row.

Full review MYPS3