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Rock Band with World Tour drums for PS3

Draupner — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:30:47 +0000

I got “Rock Band” for Playstation 3 today and was hoping to play all my instruments from Guitar Hero World Tour. I read “official” compatibility charts for all instruments and the games so I knew it should work, but it didn’t. Rock Band does not recognize the drums of Guitar Hero World Tour, atleast not yet. There is hopefully a patch coming for the game on PS3 to make this happen soon, as you can read here. It is unclear if Rock Band 2 will recognize the drums, but I hope it will work right out from the box when it comes. If not they will just have to fix this, and fast, since they’ve pretty much promised both these games will work with the World Tour drums if I understand the situation. But right now, I can only use the guitar and microphone with Rock Band.

“Guitar Hero World Tour” vs “Rock Band 2″

Draupner — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:41:30 +0000

I’m so looking forward to this! This fall both Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band 2 are released, both with guitar, microphone and drumset. But what are the differences between the games and what will I get? I have read that Guitar Hero is generally a more difficult (and fun) game to play, if you master GH on “hard” level, one would have no problem with RB at all. GH WT also adds new elements to the guitar playing experience with chords that does not all start and end at the same time, but you have to “strum” between them. The compatibility between the games and instruments may differ abit depending on platform, you can play both games with either instruments, but some features might be disabled, like the fifth drumtrack on GH WT if you don’t have their drumset, atleast so I’ve heard. However GH WT have better instruments than RB.

Guitar Hero World Tour

Create your own tracks.
Drumkit with 3 drums and 2 symbals.
Pressure sensitive drumpads.
Compatible with Guitar Hero.
Custom characters and instrument creation.
Touch sensitive pads on guitar for tapping etc.
Online career mode.
Drums are quiter than Rock Band’s.
About 85 songs (download and upload of custom tracks).

Rock Band 2

Lots of downloadable songs and albums.
About 80 songs (up to 200 downloadable).
Backwards compatibility with instruments and songs.

I already have Guitar Hero 3 (Legends of Rock) so I have now pre-ordered Guitar Hero World Tour, even though Rock Band have better songs, but WT seems like a better game. I’m looking forward to World Tour very much :) – about 3 weeks left and counting. I’ll be back with a review of it.

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Guitar hero

Draupner — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:13:09 +0000

Earlier this week we had an afterwork at the office with beers and various games, such as Guitar Hero & Sing Star. It was surprisingly funny with Guitar Hero so I decided to get Legends of Rock for my PS3 also, in waiting for Guitar Hero World Tour with a drumset, mic and second guitar.

I have managed to master the easy level pretty quick so it’s time to move on to medium difficulty. It’s also pretty fun to do online battles and face-offs.