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RB vs. GH:WT

Published: Sat 27 Sep, 2008 | 34 Comments
Tags: Dave Mustaine, Marty Friedman, Dave Ellefson, Nick Menza

Rock Band and I have a long history. From what began as huge anticipation, later turned to contempt when I heard the game I was looking forward to late last year... Would not be released here for a good, long time. Harmonix went from my favourite developers, to my most loathed. I closed my account at the Rock Band forum, and proceeded to throw a giant tanty any 2 year-old would be impressed by. Many a toy was thrown.

So at this stage, as dissatisfied as I may be - I was probably still going to get it. Then news of Guitar Hero: World Tour came out. Whoa, the drums looked sweet, and custom songs sounds like a potentially infinite amount of songs! This was the final nail in the coffin for Rock Band. Up yours Harmonix, I'm buying this.

_{You buy Guitar Hero: World Tour with it stupid!}

Now with both games coming out very soon, I have a look at the prices. GHWT is $400. Sweet as. Rock Band is... Wait, $269.95?! The RRP is $319.95 and there's a $50 off special with preorders! I originally heard it was going to be something ridiculous like $420? All of a sudden Rock Band has come back into the frame. Sure, we've waited for far too long for this game. But the time we've waited, it's continued to release downloadable content. There's heaps of content there, even some Megadeth stuff! Sure, it's off one of my less-favoured albums, but beggars can't be choosers right?

Wrong. GHWT has a custom songs feature. So theoretically - this game has EVERY Megadeth song. All the expensive Rock Band downloadable content in the world can't match the fact that if Guitar Hero doesn't have a song you want... you can make it. Sure, you won't be able to play as the vocalist. That doesn't matter when a)I play Guitar and b)I don't wanna hear any of my mates sing. So when it comes to song list vs. song list, Guitar Hero wins.

 

So I'm still swaying towards GH. But $269.95! At the moment RB's $150 cheaper. That's a lot of money. What do you get for the extra $150? Well, first and foremost theres the custom song creation. This is huge IMHO. I expect custom DragonForce appearing on YouTube in no time. Whether it's any good or not is a different story. Then there's the 25% bigger guitar controller. Um, don't care. Moving on. It has a touch pad that sounds a little confusing. Meh. Now, the drums. They look way cooler than RB's drums. I'm talking comparing the Fonz with Ritchie. Yeah. WAY cooler. But is that and the custom songs $150 cooler?

Well, for me they are. I can't forget the rage I felt when Harmonix snobbed me - and the chance to play with a song editor is an old dream since the original Guitar Hero come true. For a while you almost got my attention back Rock Band. But you're still fail. Booooooo.

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