Which Game Will Be A Rock Legend

Ever since their first Guitar Hero game release, Activision and RedOctane, publishers of Guitar Hero have been the top players in the music game industry, until just 2 years after their first game, Rock Band was released into America, this then became a mighty competitor.

The developers of the first 2 Guitar Hero games were Harmonix, but after they released their second Guitar Hero game, they moved onto a new publisher, MTV Games and EA. Once Harmonix had left, new guys Neversoft moved in and started to create a new game, Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock which was released in the later part of 2007. The game proved to be a great success, until later that year Harmonix came back into the business with Rock Band. This game featured a whole new range of instruments including a guitar, drum set, bass and mic.

After a year of Rock Band being released, the competition started again. Both EA and Activision released their new games within the same month, November 2008. Guitar Hero World Tour from Activision and Rock Band 2 from EA, let battle commence.

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. Guitar Heros new guitar features a touch sensitive bar which allows finger tapping during song sections and their drums also features 1 extra pad than the Rock Band drums. Aswell as a whole new range of shiny instruments, the game features a music maker where you can create and share your own songs.

From the Rock Band 2 side, Harmonix have not changed the instrument set up much. Harmonix only made 2 changes to the drums, they made the peddle metal instead of plastic to make it stronger, they also changed the drums to velocity sensitive, basically, the harder you hit on the pads, the louder the sound you get in the game. Apart from those few changes, not alot has changed instrument wise.

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. This also gets better, if you have previously bought any Rock Band 1 songs, they are all compatible with Rock Band 2 and they all appear on your setlist when you load up the 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 all the economic problems, many people will only have the money for one of these games, plus the space for only 1 set of instruments.

Because both sets of instruments are compatiable with either game, many people will be deciding whether they want the new features and suited up instruments of Guitar Hero or the large expandable set list and experiance of Rock Band.

Even though Harmonix have more experiance in this type of game, the stage is clearly open and we'll have to see which game will come out on top.

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