Product Description:
We've all dreamed of being in a band, but unfortunately, not all of us are so musically inclined. At least you can pretend with Guitar Hero World Tour! This is the Complete Band Game package for PlayStation 3: it comes with the Guitar Hero World Tour game, wireless guitar controller, wireless drum kit, and wired microphone. Get ready for a whole new set list of awesome songs to rock out to, including Michael Jackson's "Beat It, " Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" and more. The best part? They're all master tracks, no lame covers! The wireless guitar features a neck slider for tackling those intense solos, and a dedicated star power button and re-designed controls to further enhance your finger work. Quiet surface, pressure-sensitive pads and an authentic arrangement make the wireless drum kit as close to the real thing as you can get. You can choose to play solo, with the band, or play 4 vs. 4 Battle of the Bands play. And once you've dominated all the songs in the game? Go ahead and create your own recorded content! The Guitar Hero World Tour game package offers endless hours of interactive fun, so hurry up and order today!
Product Details:
- Complete package includes: Game, Wireless Guitar Controller, Wireless Drum Kit & Wired Microphone
- For PlayStation 3
- Game compatible with all Guitar Hero guitar controllers for PS3
- Rock out solo, with the band, or play 4 vs. 4 Battle of the Bands
- Compose, record, edit & play your own created content
Customer Reviews:
Good, with a caveat By B. Vaughn
I preordered this game from Amazon, but impatience got the better of me, and I bought it from Wal Mart on opening day. My review is based on that band kit, but I will be taking it back today. Why, you ask?
I played this game through two songs (Sweet Home Alabama and The Joker) and realized something wasn't right. I'm normally a 95% player on medium (On Rock Band 2) and a 90% player on hard. Yet I was scoring in the 60's on medium. After checking my calibration settings, I went over into the training mode, and realized that I couldn't even make it through the basic training because the red pad was not registering every time, and was not registering hard hits at all!
I switched over to the song recording mode, and it verified that the red pad was intermittent at best, thus the reason it's going back, and I will hope the one from Amazon is a better copy.
Now, let me say, overall, I give the feel of the drums two very big thumbs up. The pads felt much better, and they were much quieter than I was used to. However they get a thumbs down on quality. And before you think that this is just one bad experience, check around. There is a very big issue, first with the sensitivity of the pads (Apparently a program is coming out to allow you to change the sensitivity using your home PC) and second with the pads working intermittently. This second issue (Which I experienced) seems to be the most concerning, and from other sites, it looks like I am just the tip of the iceberg. I'm reading about people having to go through 2, 3, even 4 drum sets to get a good one. Many of the stores are not sold out, but are returned out. And this apparently stems from the wires to the drum pads simply being held on with silicone which is not holding everything together.
I really really can't wait until they get this set completely fixed, but since Activision is requiring YOU to pay for shipping if it's broken out of the box, might want to delay, at least for now.
Also, since I bought this game based on the promise of cross-compatibility, it should be stated that the drums do NOT work with Rock Band 2 at this point! Hopefully it's just a matter of a patch coming out, but it's a little disconcerting.
*******EDIT 11/10/08*******
As I was still having problems with a cymbal, I did contact the nice support people, who sounded quite exasperated, but immediately sent me out a tuning kit. This kit allows you to modify the sensitivity of each drum pad (Or cymbal, or pedal) to where you want it to be. Too sensitive, it may trigger when you hit another pad. Not sensitive enough, it may not trigger it all.
Now, I previously stated that some sites had talked about loose wires causing problems. In an effort to be thorough, and since my cymbal wasn't working, I did take apart the cymbal to look at the sensor. At least for my cymbal, I noted that the wires were definately SOLDERED. I was relying on information previously supplied by someone else in stating that the wires were not soldered, and I still do not know the condition of the wires on the drum pads themselves. As I said, this was my individual yellow cymbal. Since then I have sent it back through the RMA process, which, yes, did require me to send it (insured and traceable!) at my own expense.
Also, as of this date, the GH:WT drums are still not working with Rock Band 2, which is still a bit frustrating!Faulty Equipment By Jack Aroout
Let me say that I own Rock Band 2 as well as purchasing this first thing Sunday..I used to be a bigtime Guitar Hero fan.
However, I soon round out, like many others, that the drum kit doesnt work well. Not only that...it does a HORRIBLE job at letting you know how other people are doing, so you may randomly fail while playing through a song and you could be thinking that you were doing awesome. Not so. Dissapointment...now I'm stuck with this broken drum and they are asking that I pay shipping charges. Not going to happen. I'm going back to Rock Band 2 and never picking this up again.Great game !! and Did I mention lots of fun? By Sam Klein
So we were out yesterday and we found a local store that was open late and they were selling GHWT on the day of release and we thought we could pick it up, so we did and then when we got home we started thinking wether to open the box or not?!
First this is maybe our 4th or 5th rythem/music game. we have GH3 RB1, and some other karoke games. Our greatest concern was that we dont need anymore instruments than we already have (3 plastic guitars, 5 mics and 1 wired drum set)
RB2 or GH-WT? it really depends how much your willing to spend because you can always get both!! but I think if you already have RB1 just pick up the RB2 standalone game the instruments though much improved dont warrent the investment from my point of view. GH-WT instruments on the other hand especially the drum kit have something relatively new to offer.
So the big question for us was do we open it or not? should we get RB2 instead? we decided to go ahead and open the box!! and we are glad we did, very positive experience so far.
The actual hands- on review broken down to diffirent sections:
1. standalone game: GH-WT is a great addition to the GH series with a lot of really great tracks, graphics are cleaner but cartonish as usual( which has some kind of special appeal to it). There is also the compostion mode which allows you to creat your own playble tracks, I looked into briefly and I would say it has a lot of potentialin it. There is also the added bonus of publishing your tracks online which may help uleash your inner composer.
I still havn't tried online play so maybe I'll update this section later.
Overall the game alone is really worth getting but the important part is wether to get the band kit or not?
2. Instruments:
A. The Guitar has a nice feel to it, it has been redesigned with removable face plates which can make it really customizable. they also added a slide bar which could be helpful for nailing some of the difficult solos.
B. Drum set: You get a wireless drum set that feels and looks really well made, its heavier than RB1 set(which makes it feel even more solid) but not too heavy though, and it Looks better than the new RB2 drum set. The presence of cymbals also adds a nice touch of authenticty and enhanced game play. I tried it with RB1 and until now its not compatible with it( treated like a regular controler not as a drum set)
c. Microphone: its your standerd wired rythem game mic nothing fancy here.
RB Vs GH instruments compatibility:
I only tried the GH kit on RB and doenst work, ill be cross testing soon and updating this review.
So overall its highly recommended if your into rythem games and if your not then maybe its time to get started! its really great for when you have friends or relatives over or maybe a family activety with your kids.
what are you waiting for? add to cart :)
Update: I faced some issues with the performance of the drum kit so I contacted activision and they sent me a cable to adjust sensitivety, now its working great no issues, so beafore you take it back give it a shot.
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