Posts Tagged ‘Guitar Hero: World Tour’
By: Jon Christensen on January 24th, 2009 am31 2:42 am
/Gamer reader Rocky was cruising around Xbox Marketplace and checking out some of the Xbox 360 themes. He came across a Guitar Hero: World Tour theme that is presented by KFC. While reading the description, Rocky noticed a couple of words that were misspelled and he snapped a photo for us.
As you can see above, the last sentence had two typos. Not only did Microsoft screw up on the word Guitar by spelling it “Gutiar,” they also messed up on World by calling it “Wold.”
We’re guessing that Microsoft demoted the guy who was responsible for the “Red Ring of Death,” and gave him the “typing of the theme” job title.
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By: Jon Christensen on December 24th, 2008 am31 1:08 am
Guitar Hero: World Tour owners, get ready because the boss is coming as a FREE download. That’s right, Bruce Springsteen is going to be included for GH as DLC. It will be made available around the same time as his new album “Working on a Dream,” which will be in stores on January 27, 2009.
The DLC will feature two songs, “Born to Run” from the same record name and “My Lucky Day,” which is on his next album. The songs will be on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and the Wii.
Source: Kotaku
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By: Jon Christensen on November 21st, 2008 am30 1:38 am
Remember the awesome video named ‘Bike Hero‘ we posted a few days ago? Well, it’s not nearly as cool as we thought because it was created by an production teamed named Droga 5. The team works with Activision and they plan working with them in the future doing similar things.
In a weird kind of way, I feel Activision has completely lied to us and I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to forgive the publisher…Okay, I think maybe I’m going overboard because it was just viral marketing and guess what? It worked. Almost a million people have watched the video and it got the internet thinking about Guitar Hero. We were fooled this time by Activision, but hopefully when they do their next lie, we won’t be. However, we probably will. 
Source: MTV
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By: Jon Christensen on November 10th, 2008 am30 4:42 am
Activision has just released the new theme song for James Bond 007: Quantum of Solace for Guitar Hero: World Tour. The new Bond theme is called “Another Way to Die,” and features the artistes Jack White (White Strips) and Alicia Keys. It has a jazz/R&B/alternative sound. Basically, I think it kinda kicks ass and by far the most unique 007 theme. Listen to it up top.
The song sells for $1.99 (160 MS Points).
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By: Jon Christensen on November 6th, 2008 am30 5:01 am
Remember back in the day when we all thought EA was the evil empire in gaming? Recently, I’ve seen the company changing its strategy and the last few months, I’ve been excited about some of their new projects. Because of that, we thought all is good in the gaming world. Sadly, that is not true because Activision Blizzard is starting to become the new ‘immoral’ company.
Bobby Kotick, who is the CEO of Activision Blizzard, recently spoke about one of Guitar Hero’s features — the user created songs and how they could make money off of them through ‘GH Tunes.’
“The ability to offer these songs on a subscription basis may very well result in the newest subscription opportunity in our portfolio.”
Yes ladies and gentlemen, you have read that correctly. Kotick and Activision seems like they are possibly looking into ways for us, the consumer; to purchase songs that fellow gamers created. I’m sorry but this is crap. Its crap because us gamers are creating these songs for free. The only reason for any company to charge gamers for DLC isn’t just because they want to JUST make money, but because companies pay to develop the content. And with music games — companies need to also pay record companies to license off the music they use.
With the ability to upload songs, Activision Blizzard is taking advantage of us. They decided to take our hard-work and profit from it. And of course, the ‘artist’ who makes the music gets NOTHING. Of course since they own the feature — they can do whatever they want. But again, I feel in the end — they’re raping the gamers.
On top of that, the feature to create music and upload them was supposed to be free for anyone who wanted to try it through a download. But because the company saw 25,000 user generated songs already uploaded and they expect to see over 100,000 by the end of the year — they want to now charge. If they decide to go through with this new proposal, I urge everyone not to even bother with it. As the crazy Bill O’Riley says, “Speak with your wallet,” and don’t buy any of that content!
On top of that, the user content doesn’t even sound that great and was considered by many reviewers; a disappointment.
Oh, and a tip to Activision Blizzard — Rock Band is better. 
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By: Jon Christensen on November 5th, 2008 am30 3:28 am
Here’s another commercial featuring Guitar Hero: World Tour directed by Brett Ratner. But instead of seeing Kobe half naked, we get to see actress/model Heidi Klum in her bra and panties. After talking to Peter over at /film, Activision and Ratner filmed a series of advertisement for the game similar to this one. So, expect to see even more, which is AWESOME…of course I’m being sarcastic.
Unless of course Ratner convinced Hayden Panettiere to wear something close to what Klum is showing off above, then for a limited time only — he’ll become my favorite director of all-time!
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By: Jon Christensen on October 30th, 2008 am31 3:18 am
Remember the Guitar Hero commercial featuring some of America’s favorite athletes (besides A-Rod) that we posted a few days ago? Well you’re not going to believe who directed it. Thanks to /film who found out, Brett Ratner (Rush Hour) was the mastermind behind the commercial. Of course when I use the term mastermind I use it loosely…very loosely.
Seriously, how could a director as big as Ratner create utter rubbish? The production looked like some kid on youtube produced it. Oh wait, I know why it sucked so much — Ratner made it, duh! If this is any indication of how he wants to create the Guitar Hero movie he’s been pitching around to the media — then god help us.
Just remember kids, he is officially signed on to direct the God of War movie. You know — more and more I think about it, Uwe Boll doesn’t sound so bad anymore. Of course I’m only HALF kidding.
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By: Jon Christensen on October 29th, 2008 am31 2:58 am
As we already know, Guitar Hero: World Tour is about to get one of the greatest guitarist of all time — Jimi Hendrix but Activision is also adding Jack White’s (White Strips) band The Raconteurs as a DLC starting on November 13 and 20th respectively. Even though the overall reviews for Guitar Hero are not measuring up to Rock Band 2 — just having Jimi Hendrix alone could be worth my investment for the $180 GH package. Okay, maybe that’s a bit of a exaggeration, but playing some of his classic songs is still pretty awesome.
Jimi Hendrix DLC will include a live version of “Fire,” and studio tacks of “Little Wing” and “If 6 was 9.” The package will be available for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 for $5.49 (440 MS Points). Apparently, while Hendrix was on his death bed, he requested not to be on the Wii because he felt it was to “kiddy.” Sorry Nintendo fanboys, it was his decision so, blame him — not me.
The Raconteurs’ songs will only be sold separately for $1.99 (160 MS Points). However, the Wii will get love from Jack White because if you spend 200 Wii Points, you’ll be able to at least play some Raconteurs.
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By: Jon Christensen on October 25th, 2008 am31 4:41 am
Activision has started to air a their commercial for Guitar Hero: World Tour. Their approach was rather interesting because they used athletes to be the stars of the advertisement. Kobe Bryant, Michael Phelps, Alex Rodriguez and Tony Hawk do their best impersonation of Tom Cruise in ‘Risky Business.’ Although, I find the ad amusing — Activision must have paid a pretty penny to get these guys in the studio.
No word yet if the pressure got to A-Rod and he failed out of the song…but we’re assuming he did.
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By: Jon Christensen on October 23rd, 2008 am31 3:01 am
For those who wanted to be a rock star but never achieved their dream, but pretend every night when they play Guitar Hero – this could be for them. Logitech has created a wireless guitar officially for Guitar Hero: World Tour.
The reason why we’re posting about this accessory is because it’s unique. The guitar features a wooden neck, metal fret buttons, rosewood fingerboard and even tuning peg handles (why? We have no clue). Basically it feels like a real guitar. You can have all this for only $250…
Logitech promises the controller will last for “hundreds of hours” on just two AA batteries. But as of now, it only works for both the PS3 and PS2 version of the game and no word yet on a Xbox compatible guitar. Logitech expects the guitar to be in stores sometime in December.
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By: Jon Christensen on October 22nd, 2008 pm31 11:42 pm
The drummer from the popular band Metallica, Lars Ulrich has spoken once again. This time he talks about why the band decided to go with Activision’s Guitar Hero as opposed to EA’s Rock Band.
“We had to make a decision, and it was one or the other, and we felt that Guitar Hero were more suited for what we were looking for. They were ready to step up on a number of fronts and it’s been great. You probably have heard a few birds chirping about the potential of a Metallica game at some point in the future, and who knows what’s gonna lurk next year, but it’s pretty exciting.”
What he really means when he says, “We felt that Guitar Hero were more suited for what we were looking for,” is code for making more money. Not because they feel Guitar Hero is a better platform for people to enjoy their music — but really for them to make as much cheese as possible. First I want to say, I’ve got no problem with people making a decision based off of financial reasons, but please ‘don’t beat around the bush.’ The whole world knows Lars is a money grabbing ‘little person,’ so maybe next time for once Lars — don’t spin the situation.
He also mention from the quote above, Activision’s plans on still possibly developing a Guitar Hero Metallica game, something similar to the Aerosmith version that came out earlier in the year. We assume the company will take advantage of each instrument included in Guitar Hero: World Tour. Of course you know what people say about the word assume — you start to look like Lars.
via kotaku
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By: Jon Christensen on September 18th, 2008 am30 3:43 am
Coke vs Pepsi, Nike vs Rebook, and the WWF vs WCW are some examples of epic battles of companies competing against each other. One that has brewing for about year now has just gotten a little more vicious. While speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVII Conference, bigwig at Activision Bobby Kotick talked about how the Guitar Hero franchise is far superior than EA’s Rock band.
“We’re outselling [Rock Band] 6:1. When you think about the access we have to 30% of the world’s music at Universal, we have a unique advantage there. I would also say when you look at resources, you know, our next-nearest competitor has a couple of hundred people working on these projects, we have close to 2000 people just dedicated to the Guitar Hero note tracking, introduction of new hardware, introduction of new software, and so we just have a lot more in the way of resources available to us to continue to dominate the category.”
If you’re like me and enjoy Rock Band more than Activision’s Guitar Hero, you might want to put away you fanboyism while you read this. It’s true, Guitar Hero has in fact sold better. At the same time, the brand name is much more recognizable for the casual gamer. And we all know, casual gamers make companies richer, thus they seem to focus on them more. And for good reason.
But it’s also unfair to say GH is going to outsell Rock Band in the future. There is a few other reasons why GH has moved more games. One of the biggest reasons why we feel GH sold more units than its arch rival, isn’t because most people feel it’s a better product. In fact Rock Band ended up getting considerably more favorable reviews according to critics. But I believe the real reason why GH was more profitable was the fact it was cheaper and many people already owned the hardware.
The bundle of the original RB debuted at $169.99 last November — compared to Guitar Hero III’s price of $99.99. Not only that, Guitar Hero had the option of purchasing just the game and without the hardware. You would have to believe at least half of the consumers who bought GH purchased just the game for $69.99. When you compare $69.99 to $169.99 and the casual gamer has the choice to pick either or — what do you think they’re going to select?
When Guitar Hero: World Tour finally makes it’s way to the stores and it competes ‘head to head‘ with Rock Band 2, then we can actually make claims which is more profitable. We truly feel when it’s all said and done, Rock Band 2 will become king of the rhythm games.
Thanks to Kotaku
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By: Jon Christensen on September 12th, 2008 pm30 4:48 pm
Activision has sent out a press release that entails every single song included with Guitar Hero: World Tour for the PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, and PS2. Even though I felt Harmonix did a little better job of recreating the riffs to make it feel like your playing an actual song on a plastic guitar, Neversoft did do decent job for their first time. And considering this is Neversoft’s second attempt, it should feel even better.
Looking at this list for GH:WT, I think I’m personally going to enjoy Rock Band 2′s track list a tad more. Although, Guitar Hero: World Tour is no slouch either. With songs ranging from ‘Hotel Califorina‘ by The Eagles to ‘Hey Man Nice Shot‘ by Filter, I’m looking forward to getting my sweaty hands on it on October 26.
After the jump, check out the full list (more…)
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By: Jon Christensen on September 2nd, 2008 pm30 2:11 pm
This is when we know video games are really starting to take over world. The Smashing Pumpkins new single G.L.O.W. will debut exclusively for Activision‘s Guitar Hero: World Tour. According to the press release,
“This marks the first time a band has recorded a new song exclusively for the franchise which will be released afterwards, giving Guitar Hero fans exclusive access to Smashing Pumpkins music before anyone else.”
The music Industry really is betting off of songs to become popular because of the success of Guitar Hero and Rock band. But why wouldn’t they be, bands like Flyleaf saw their album sell to the platinum mark after they allowed their song “I’m so Sick” in Rock Band last December.
G.L.O.W. will be bundled with two other tracks from the Smashing Pumpkins, “1979″ and “The Everlasting Gaze.”
Watch the video up top and get glimpse of how the song sounds, before you play it this fall.
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By: Jon Christensen on September 1st, 2008 am30 2:03 am
This months Entertainment Weekly came out, and because of /film we get a subscription. An article that was featured talked about the release of the two blockbuster music games Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour, and their significance on how they’ll help shape the music industry.
During the story, they had a small piece of what ‘famous’ real life rockers think about the two games. After the jump, read what they said. (more…)
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