Rock Band veterans will certainly find themselves getting confused to begin with (well, assuming they’re not just playing with the Rock Band kit, of course), but with a bit of practice it soon starts to make sense. The choice to include raised cymbal pads, which initally feel like they were shoved on just to avoid a lawsuit from Harmonix, have actually turned out to be a really nice addition. ![]() ![]() The drums, with their velocity-sensitive pads, feel more like an entry-level electric kit than a video game peripheral. What’s important to know is that World Tour still has what it takes to get you on your feet and shaking your head like a crack addict with palsy. It feels somehow wrong and unfair, but it’s the only frame of reference you’ve got, and you keep doing it even though the first girlfriend has put on a load of weight and had her first child at the age of 21 since she left you. It’s kind of like when you’re in a relationship with someone who you love dearly, but you keep comparing her to your previous girlfriend. With World Tour‘s addition of a drum-kit and microphone, it and Rock Band are in a league of their own. Having spent the last 6 months or so playing the excellent Rock Band, however, it’s incredibly difficult not to spend every moment with the game analysing the similarities and differences between the two – something we’ll do an awful lot of during this review. The changes made to the fourth installment (fifth if you count Aerosmith – we don’t) in the series are pretty epic when compared to the transition between Guitar Hero 2 and 3, but that’s not to say that the general character and feel of the game aren’t still very much rooted in what made Guitar Hero great. However, finally coming into contact with World Tour, the latest in the series, has given us ample reason to breathe a sigh of relief. Approaching Guitar Hero yet again brings about a multitude of feelings – once a revolutionary step for rhythm action games, now a fully-fledged gaming institution with new instalments arriving often more than once a year, it’s difficult not to see it as a total cash cow.
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