07-29-2008, 05:00 PM
Release Date
October 27, 2008
Number of Players
Offline- 1-4
Online- 2-8
The Basics, Along With Some New Stuff
Guitar Hero World Tour is the fourth instalment of the Guitar Hero series. It will continue to support similar game play that the previous titles have brought. This time around, drum and microphone peripherals will be added, a new addition to the series, so it will play much like Rock Band. Common elements such as star power will return, the basic Career Mode will be remodeled. A new "Beginner" difficulty setting will be made along with the regular [Easy, Medium, Hard, and Expert] difficulties. Five instrument career modes will be in the game: lead and bass guitar, percussion, vocals, and online/offline full band.
Instruments
The Guitar
RedOctane has developed a new guitar controller for the game. This new peripheral features a new touchpad under the normal five buttons on the guitar. This allows the player to alter the tone of sustained notes as well as tapping to replace strumming and simulation slapping a bass. Guitars from older Guitar Hero games will work with WT.
The New Instruments
WT will be adding two new instruments: drums and vocals. It is revealed that a wireless, velocity-sensitive six-piece drum controller is being developed. This will feature two cymbal pads, a snare, two toms, and a bas drum pedal. The velocity sensitivity, during song creation, will allow players to alter the sound of their drum. The set will also feature a MIDI port in the back, allowing users to connect compatible equipment, such as a second bass drum pedal. The official microphone uses a USB connection instead of a wireless one, although players may use any USB microphone.
Videos:
Guitar Hero World Tour: New Guitar Features
Guitar Hero World Tour: Drums
Guitar Hero World Tour: Microphone
Customization
Customization
In the "Create-a-Rocker" mode, similar to "Create-a-Skater" from Neversofts Tony Hawk series, players will be able to model the avatar's poise, clothing, tattoos, makeup, and even age. Characters previous Guitar Hero games will be available as templates for character creation. As a result of a lawsuit with Gibson Guitars, the player will also be able to customize their own guitar for the game to a high degree. Drum sets and microphones will also be customizable.
Character models, in addition to the game and player's characters, based off famous musicians will be included in the game. Hayley Williams, Jimi Hendrix, Billy Corgan (of The Smashing Pumpkins), and Travis Barker (of Blink-182 and +44 fame). A rumor suggests that the game will feature the band Tool, Ted Nugent, Sting, Ozzy Osbourne, and Zakk Wylde.
Videos:
Guitar Hero World Tour: Create-a-Rocker
Guitar Hero World Tour: Make an Instrument
The Music
Setlist
The disk will carry 86 songs, the most ever on a single disk in any rhythm game. All 86 tracks are master recordings, a first in the series. Downloadable content has been confirmed, but any downloaded songs from Guitar Hero III will not be playable in World Tour. Neversoft has now released the full Guitar Hero: World Tour track list which can be found below.
The following is the full track list for Guitar Hero: World Tour.
- 311 - "Beautiful Disaster"
- 30 Seconds To Mars - "The Kill"
- Airbourne - "Too Much Too Young"
- The Allman Brothers Band - "Ramblin' Man"
- Anouk - "Good God"
- The Answer - "Never Too Late"
- At The Drive-In - "One Armed Scissor"
- Beastie Boys - "No Sleep Till Brooklyn"
- Beatsteaks - "Hail to the Freaks"
- Billy Idol - "Rebel Yell"
- Black Label Society - "Stillborn"
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - "Weapon of Choice"
- blink-182 - "Dammit"
- Blondie - "One Way or Another"
- Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - "Hollywood Nights"
- Bon Jovi - "Livin' On A Prayer"
- Bullet For My Valentine - "Scream Aim Fire"
- Coldplay - "Shiver"
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Up Around The Bend"
- The Cult - "Love Removal Machine"
- Dinosaur Jr. - "Feel The Pain"
- The Doors - "Love Me Two Times"
- Dream Theater - "Pull Me Under"
- The Eagles - "Hotel California"
- The Enemy - "Aggro"
- Filter - "Hey Man, Nice Shot"
- Fleetwood Mac - "Go Your Own Way"
- Foo Fighters - "Everlong"
- The Guess Who - "American Woman"
- Hush Puppies - "You're Gonna Say Yeah!"
- Interpol - "Obstacle 1"
- Jane's Addiction - "Mountain Song"
- Jimi Hendrix - "Purple Haze (Live)"
- Jimi Hendrix - "The Wind Cries Mary"
- Jimmy Eat World - "The Middle"
- Joe Satriani - "Satch Boogie"
- Kent - "Vinternoll2"
- Korn - "Freak On A Leash"
- Lacuna Coil - "Our Truth"
- Lenny Kravitz - "Are You Gonna Go My Way"
- Linkin Park - "What I've Done"
- The Living End - "Prisoner of Society"
- Los Lobos - "La Bamba"
- Lost Prophets - "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)"
- Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Sweet Home Alabama (Live)"
- Mars Volta - "L'Via L'Viaquez"
- MC5's Wayne Kramer - "Kick Out The Jams"
- Metallica - "Trapped Under Ice"
- Michael Jackson - "Beat It"
- Modest Mouse - "Float On"
- Motorhead - "Overkill"
- Muse - "Assassin"
- Negramaro - "Nuvole e Lenzuola"
- Nirvana - "About a Girl (Unplugged)"
- No Doubt - "Spiderwebs"
- NOFX - "Soul Doubt"
- Oasis - "Some Might Say"
- Ozzy Osbourne - "Crazy Train"
- Ozzy Osbourne - "Mr. Crowley"
- Paramore - "Misery Business"
- Pat Benatar - "Heartbreaker"
- R.E.M. - "The One I Love"
- Radio Futura - "Escuela De Calor"
- Rise Against - "Re-Education Through Labor"
- Sex Pistols - "Pretty Vacant"
- Silversun Pickups - "Lazy Eye"
- Smashing Pumpkins - "Today"
- Steely Dan - "Do It Again"
- Steve Miller Band - "The Joker"
- Sting - "Demolition Man (Live)"
- The Stone Roses - "Love Spreads"
- Stuck In The Sound - "Toy Boy"
- Sublime - "Santeria"
- Survivor - "Eye of the Tiger"
- System of a Down - "B.Y.O.B."
- Ted Nugent - "Stranglehold"
- Ted Nugent's Original Guitar Duel Recording
- Tokio Hotel - "Monsoon"
- Tool - "Parabola"
- Tool - "Schism"
- Tool - "Vicarious"
- Trust - "Antisocial"
- Van Halen - "Hot For Teacher"
- Willie Nelson - "On The Road Again"
- Wings - "Band on the Run"
- Zakk Wylde's Original Guitar Duel Recording
The following list contains downloadable songs for Guitar Hero: World Tour
Metallica Album: Death Magnetic
- Metallica - "That Was Just Your Life"
- Metallica - "The End of the Line"
- Metallica - "Broken, Beat & Scarred"
- Metallica - "The Day That Never Comes"
- Metallica - "All Nightmare Long"
- Metallica - "Cyanide"
- Metallica - "The Unforgiven III"
- Metallica - "The Judas Kiss"
- Metallica - "My Apocalypse"
- Metallica - "Suicide & Redemption J.H."
- Metallica - "Suicide & Redemption K.H."
Smashing Pumpkins Pack
- Smashing Pumpkins - "1979"
- Smashing Pumpkins - "The Everlasting Gaze"
- Smashing Pumpkins - "G.L.O.W."
R.E.M. Track Pack
- R.E.M. - "Horse To Water"
- R.E.M. - "Man-Sized Wreath"
- R.E.M. - "Supernatural Superserious"
Custom Songs
Guitar Hero World Tour will allow players to create their own tunes and distribute them to others over Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, and Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Vocals are not supported due to copyright reasons. Originally, this was to be a "Jam Over" mode where players would make new over already existing songs on the disk, but Activision stated that it had been taken out of the game.
"Advanced Studio" mode is used to create new, original pieces and-according to Game Informer-is similar to Apple's GarageBand software. Players can create tracks of each song in real or slowed time, with the game quantizing notes to the nearest beat set to by the player or the tracks can be made one note at a time. Both guitar and drum effects can be set and changed throughout the song. Notes played by the user will be set at a default "Expert" difficulty while recording, and that lower difficulty sets will be generated by the game. Guitar Hero World Tour will be using Line 6 POD technology for better guitar sounds.
Custom songs will be uploaded to the "GH Tunes" service, which will let players everywhere to rate songs, and to search and download songs via ratings, and will include a Showcase by Neversoft to show off the best of user's works alongside new songs from popular groups. Players will only be able to upload five piece to the service at the start, but players with highly rated songs will gain the ability to upload more. The PlayStation 2 version will support custom song creation, but users will not be able to upload songs to the service.
Videos:
Music Studio Part I
Music Studio Part II
Music Studio Part III
'GH Tunes' Walkthrough
UPDATE!!
Online
As friend codes are almost unavoidable in any online enabled Wii game (thank you, EA Nation!) it should come as no surprise that those dreaded numbers will be rearing their ugly heads in Guitar Hero: World Tour as well. However Vicarious Visions seems to be one of the few Wii developers sincerely interested in squeezing every last bit of power out of the system and it's evident in their approach to playing online and downloadable content.
Always online
Guitar Hero: World Tour will allow you the option to be constantly connected online, even when only playing locally, or just browsing the menus. You will now know instantly when any of your friends have booted up the game and be able to invited them to join you for a song or two. For those incredibly paranoid of letting other know what they're playing and when, you can choose to keep yourself invisible.
Downloadable Content
Downloadable content will be available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii versions. This, perhaps, is the first game-if not just in the Guitar Hero series-to support downloadable content to the Wii. Users will be able to download to the Wii's internal memory or directly onto an SD card into a "Rock Archive", and will be able to play songs directly from their SD cards and create custom playlists with them. Players will be able to download songs directly from the in-game menus, without the need to visit the Wii Shop Channel first.
At Microsoft's E3 2008 press conference, it was revealed that Metallica's new Death Magnetic album would be downloadable content, and that three R.E.M. songs from their album Accelerate will be released in October: "Horse to Water", "Man-Sized Wreath", and "Supernatural Superserious". Jimi Hendrix songs, in addition to the ones already on the disk, have been confirmed as DLC.
Wii Exclusive Features
Aside from making use of the Wii remotes in the guitar and drum peripherals Activision has announced that the Wii version of Guitar Hero: World Tour will include a "Mii Freestyle" mode, allowing players to bring their Miis into the action and provide an easier play experience for those who want it.
"Mii Freestyle gives you the power to freely improvise and create music on the fly, but is very simple to use -- so you don't have to know a thing about music or music theory to sound good. You can play single-player or multi-player with your own Mii as either a guitarist or drummer in your band. You can use the guitar controller, the drum controller, or even just a Wii remote and nunchuk to play air drums." - David Nathanielsz, executive producer.
