Guitar Hero vs Rock Band 2
Since the very first Guitar Hero game in 2005, Activision and RedOctane have been the leaders of the music game industry, until, 2 years after the Guitar Hero release, Rock Band was released into America.
Harmonix were the original developers of Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero 2, but after the release of Guitar Hero 2, Harmonix moved onto a new publisher, MTV Games and EA to see if they could find bigger better thigns, which they did. After Harmonix left, Neversoft took their place and the first thing they did was release a new Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock, which was released in the later part of 2007. The game proved to be a hit until later that year a new game was released, Rock Band by the old Guitar Hero developers, Harmonix. This game featured a whole set of instruments, guitar, drums, bass and mic.
After a year of Rock Band being out, both publishers, Activision and EA both released a new music game into the market. Guitar Hero World Tour from Activision and Rock Band 2 from EA, let the battle begin.
From Guitar Hero’s view, this was a new venture for them, a new range of instruments, but they certainly hadn’t cut any corners. Their new guitar has a touch sensitive bar to allow finger tapping during song sections, their drums feature 5 pads and a foot peddle, one more than Rock Bands. Aswell as a whole range of shiny new instruments, their game featured a music maker where you could create and share your own songs.
On the Rock Band 2 side, they haven’t changed their instruments much. They have only made 2 changes the new drum set. They have made the drum pads velocity sensitive, as you hit the drum harder you get a louder in game sound, and they also changed the foot peddle to metal as many people found that they broke the old plastic one. Except for a few minor changes, their instrument range has stayed the same.
On the actual game side of things, they haven’t got a music maker, however, they do have one great thing that Guitar Hero does not; a huge selection of downloadable songs on top of their 80+ song set list. It gets better, any songs that you have previously downloaded for Rock Band 1 are compatible with Rock Band 2 and appear on your set list when you load up the new game. Another advantage is that for a small fee of less than $5, you can tranfser most of the songs from Rock Band 1 onto Rock Band 2.
Now comes the difficult decision, after each game has had its advantages listed, it comes to deciding which ones you should spend your money on. With Christmas closing in, many people will just be choosing one game rather than both, plus many people will lack the space for 2 sets of instruments.
As both instrument sets are compatible with both games, many people will have to choose whether they want the larger and more expandable set list of Rock Band, or the new features and suited up instruments of Guitar Hero.
I personally prefer Rock Band 2 simply because of the set list and I prefer the layout of the screen, but as for which one will become the top player in the music game industry, it’s an open stage.
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