Rock Band 2 Vs. Guitar Hero World Tour

Rock Band or Guitar Hero it has always been a debate which one is the better game. Both Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band 2 were released during the holidays this past December. This created a huge frenzy between kids and teenagers to choose which game they were going to ask for a gift for the holidays. In my case, I chose Rock Band 2 for my PS3. My reasoning for this was that Guitar Hero is not made for PS3 in the first place, the song selection had much more variety and the drums were much simpler to use. In comparison, Guitar Hero also has a wide range of great songs to play, from Jimi Hendrix to some Sublime. Guitar Hero World Tour was the first to include the drums, guitar and microphone, out of the whole series. However, before Guitar Hero, Rock Band had already created their full set of instruments and got a head start on the competition. Even though Rock Band had a head start it gave the creators of Guitar Hero to make changes those instruments by: creating a touch pad for guitar notes, extra pieces to the drum set by having 5 notes instead of 4 on Rock Band and new/innovative game modes than Rock Band.

Rock Band Positives/Negatives:

Positives: Graphics are very realistic in comparison to Guitar Hero, where the characters look more like cartoons. The song selection is amazing for every person it mixes some darker, louder bands with some light, easy listening songs for the girls. Drums are easy and simple to use.

Negatives: Switching difficulty of songs is annoying because if you want to switch in the middle of the song, you will have to reload to the beginning page all over again. Guitar is much harder to use than the Guitar Hero ones.

Guitar Hero Positives/Negatives:

Positives: The wide range celebrity characters you can chose to rock out with. The new drums, which create a new challenge for the player to experience and the new, touch pad for keys on the guitar.

Negatives: The clunky guitar, which is bigger than the old version of the Guitar Hero guitar, the smaller one was much easier to handle and play with. The drums seem to break fairly easily in time, and are not covered under a good warranty.

In conclusion, if I would choose out of the two games and I had an Xbox 360 I would purchase Guitar Hero World Tour as it provides a fun and more entertaining format for players.