Guitar Hero World Tour Fan Review
Guitar Hero: World Tour
Guitar Hero World Tour is one of the latest releases into the franchise, by Activision, and it has had great reception over all with the whole fanbase. Most reviews made on this game has been extremely positive.
Guitar Hero World Tour has all of your favorite instruments up for grabs. You are able to make use of the drum set, the guitar (which doubles as a bass instrument) and the mic. All of these instruments will have their own range of difficulty settings, ranging from beginner to expert. There is also that one special song in the game that will really put your skills to the test.
But putting the information about the instruments on hold for a second, the musical selection for Guitar Hero World Tour is very well picked. I generally always find at least 4 or 5 songs that I will take a liking to with each Guitar Hero game that is released. This is no exception, there are some older hit titles such as SpiderWeb by No Doubt. Then they have some hidden goodies, such as Re-Education Through Labor which is a song that I never heard.
The game progresses in a way that trains your skills for future challenges to come, in the game storyline anyway. Anyone with a shred of dexterity in their fingers will most likely find beginner through hard manageable. But hard is definitely what I recommend all GH players with a guitar to start at. Hard mode prepares you for all the finger shifting that you will come to encounter in expert. As well as the many confusing finger combination button presses you will have to go through, which is definitely something that may slow you down. You have to especially watch out for those country-like songs, they can get quite tricky.
Besides the confusing button combination’s implemented to trip you up, you will also need to make use of hammer on’s and be prepared to take on a mass of guitar notes coming towards you. This is not so apparent in the beginning songs that you will play, but the last couple of songs, when you get the dream team of Ozzy Osbourne and Travis Barker, will really put your skills to the test. With such a cast of team members, you can expect nothing but ridiculous songs that you will have to beat. Over all, the story mode in Guitar Hero World Tour is well made, it does a great job of preparing you for the harder songs that you will encounter.
The singing portion of Guitar Hero World Tour is actually quite realistic. I can see people actually benefiting from actively singing on career mode. The harder modes will require you to make changes in tone, whether subtle or drastic in order to reach the notes. This is pretty representative of real life singing, and it really lets you get into the moment. Like when singing an epic song and you get to the increase in tone and you begin screaming the lyrics out as you use your star power.
However, the drumming portion of Guitar Hero World Tour, I will not be able to comment on. I originally just wanted this game so I could use the drums, but I was not able to cough up the money on time. However, I can tell you that the drumming experience in GH World Tour is as authentic as it can get. Take a look at some videos on YouTube of some of the more epic and demanding songs available and you will see that you really need hand-eye coordination to play it.
All in all, I definitely recommend that you purchase Guitar Hero World Tour. It is an amazing game and a worthy member of the franchise that does a good job at recruiting people to different genres of music. Be sure to purchase GH:WT some time soon if you have not already.
