Guitar Hero IV World Tour First Look (Looks Sick!)

[ipodmini]

Man this looks so good:
http://au.ps3.ign.com/articles/882/882949p1.html

Main Points:

Release Information:
-Tentative release date of 10/27/08
-Tentative Full Band kit: $189.99/$179.99 (360 and PS3/PS2)
-Tentative Guitar Only kit: $99.99/$89.99 (360 and PS3/PS2)
-Tentative Game only: $59.99/$49.99 (360 and PS3/PS2)

Instruments
Guitar:


Drums:


Microfone:



-There will be a new guitar, bass, microphone, and drum kit. Unique bass guitars will be used (probably for the open notes), and USB microphones are used. The microphones are the only wired instruments.
-Guitars are no longer licensed by Gibson and are custom made
-The guitars has the first ever touch-sensitive neck slide located higher on the guitar neck, allowing you to "shred how you want" in your solos.
-The old guitar controllers will still work. However, they say that you might miss out on some of the new play mechanics.
-Drum kit has 3 pads, 2 raised cymbal pads, and a bass pedal. Drums are velocity sensitive; in other words, softer hits will result in a softer sound, and harder hits will result in a louder sound.
-Star power for the drums can be activated at any time by crashing both cymbals at once.
-No announcements as of now have been made on whether Rock Band instruments will be compatible or vice/versa. However, this seems unlikely because of the non-compatibility issues in GH3 and the fact that the drum set has a different number of pads.

Gameplay
-The new "Easy Rhythm" mode for kids and newbies, where instead of having to push in frets, you simply strum along to the wide bars that are normally used for the bass drum.
-The boss battles are back, but they've been altered significantly. They are less about attacking and more about playing the song back and forth.
-GH3 Battle Mode is still in the game, but it's only for multiplayer and online now
-In band play, note streaks are combined across all players
-The wide bars (the "clear notes" as referred to in the article) will be used during the bass segments to signify "open string", meaning that you strum without pushing in a fret, adding a new spin to how the bass is played.
-Full bands are able to create "gigs" that will allow for up to seven songs to be played back to back with no loading in between
-In full band play, money for performances is divvied up depending on how well each player does

Career Mode
-There will be a world-tour style career mode where you choose a location and tracks you want to play at that venue, similar to Rock Band
-Unlike Rock Band, the interviewee claimed that you will "never be playing the same tracks over and over"
-5 separate careers have been confirmed: guitar, bass, drums, vocals, and full band
-The drum tour will add "drum solo" sections where the camera zooms in on a drummer and allows a freestyle solo

Tracks
-GH:WT is confirmed to have 85+ tracks
-The Neversoft employee claims all tracks will be masters
-Van Halen, Eagles, Linkin Park, and Sublime are confirmed to have tracks in the game.
-Dream Theater is mentioned, but not confirmed to have a song.
-Lenny Kravitz's "Are You Gonna Go My Way" is played in the trailer, and gameplay of this song can be found in the ATD6 video
-On June 15th, a press announcement was made, mentioning Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Korn, System of a Down, Ozzy Osbourne, Interpol, and Muse as having tracks in the game.
List of confirmed songs in-game:
Sublime - "Santeria"
Billy Idol - "Rebel Yell"
Foo Fighters - "Everlong"

Characters/Customization
-Have the ability to create rockers, instruments, and logos, much like in Tony Hawk
-All of the characters from GH3 and the characters from GH2 that were absent from GH3 are confirmed to return to the game
-Their will be more special guest (real artists), but no one has been announced.
-Ted Nugent has mentioned via a radio interview that he has been mo-capped for the game and has rumored a song similar to Stranglehold being used somewhere in the game

Music Creator
-Jam Over mode has been removed from the game
-Advanced Studio mode: a program, said to be like Apple's Garage Band, that will allow you to create your own music tracks, along with note charts for them. AS mode has an editor for guitar which can reportedly do electric or acoustic notes with a variety of sound effects, one for drums that has a normal drum kit along with Latin percussion instruments
-Vocals cannot be charted
-As a song is created, the difficulty where you lay down all of the notes will be the hardest difficulty. The note track will be scaled down for the easier difficulties.
-GH Mix is Neversoft's mixing studio where you can loop sections, edit out pieces or copy and paste a chorus
-GH Tunes allows for you to save 100 of your own recorded songs locally, upload 5 songs at a time (with positive reviews, this number can increase to 10) which can be swapped out for songs at any time, and download 200 of other's recorded tunes.
-The Wii will have the same potential as 360/PS3
-Activision has licensed the technology from Line 6, which will add full amp and cab modeling to the mix

[Billy32]

I personally think the Guitar was enough. The game sounds and looks unreal but I don't have enough room to store it all.

[Milan]

I don't like any of the songs/artists mentioned but if it's Hotel California by the Eagles, that's gonna be a fun one to play. I like the sunburst Stratocaster looking guitar. It's probably a Gibson Kramer again.

[EH15]

lol Rock band was the biggest waste of money ever.

[YungAI]

Originally Posted by Billy32

I personally think the Guitar was enough. The game sounds and looks unreal but I don't have enough room to store it all.

I agree.
My room is not a studio. ______________

[Imadogg]

Originally Posted by EH15

lol Rock band was the biggest waste of money ever.

Disagree. I plan on buying it soon.

[AI3]

Gonna be another great game. Can't wait for this also. They have put alot more stuff in here to compete with rock band. I think this is gonna be heaps better. ( Rock Band still isn't out here)

[ipodmini]

Originally Posted by Billy32

I personally think the Guitar was enough. The game sounds and looks unreal but I don't have enough room to store it all.

Yeah man that's the only thing, i already have a real drum kit and guitar in my room as well as 2 guitar hero guitars lol :laugh: Oh well that aint stopping me :cowboy:

Originally Posted by Milan

I don't like any of the songs/artists mentioned but if it's Hotel California by the Eagles, that's gonna be a fun one to play. I like the sunburst Stratocaster looking guitar. It's probably a Gibson Kramer again.

Nope they haven't got a deal for the Gibsons anymore. It's a custom made Guitar not based on an actual guitar (even if it does look similar to another guitar).

Originally Posted by EH15

lol Rock band was the biggest waste of money ever.

It's not if you have friends to play with/like music...

Originally Posted by Imadogg99

Disagree. I plan on buying it soon.

Dude, you should wait for GH4, did you read any of that shit? It's superior in every fashion, i mean download 200 custom songs of your choice for free, C'Mon!

Originally Posted by AI3

Gonna be another great game. Can't wait for this also. They have put alot more stuff in here to compete with rock band. I think this is gonna be heaps better. ( Rock Band still isn't out here)

Yeah i reckon it'll be heaps better too. One of my friends has Rock band though, got it from the UK. It's a sweet as game, but GH IV is only gonna be bigger and better :love:

[Imadogg]

Originally Posted by ipodmini

Dude, you should wait for GH4, did you read any of that shit? It's superior in every fashion, i mean download 200 custom songs of your choice for free, C'Mon!

Read it and can't wait.

Which is why I wanna get Rock Band soon. Cannot wait. This summer is hot and boring as ****

[Iverson373]

Could you put your on songs on the CD , cause someone told me you could.