Guitar Hero: World Tour - New Features Unveiled - Complete Drum Kit Specs
In a press release today, Activision officially announced the next big installment of the Guitar Hero series: Guitar Hero: World Tour.
The announcement highlights several new features:
- New State of the Art Wireless Instruments
- Innovative Music Studio Lets Players Compose, Record, Edit and Share Music
- Biggest Selection of On-Disc Music with All Master Tracks
- Robust New Eight-Player “Battle of the Bands” Mode
These brief descriptions look very promising indeed. But what’s most notable is that Guitar Hero is now branching out from just guitars and into Rock Band territory with a full compliment of instruments.
“The game will feature a slick newly redesigned guitar, a genuine electronic drum kit and a microphone, as well as an innovative Music Studio music creator that lets players compose, record, edit and share their own rock and roll anthems, along with online Band Career and 8-player ‘Battle of the Bands’”, said the Activision press release.
The drum kit itself looks like it’s going to be very impressive indeed, with three drum pads, a base kick pedal, and two raised cymbals.
The Music Studio feature also sounds very promising, as it gives players “access to a full compliment of tools to create digital music from scratch, utilizing all of the instruments, and then play their compositions in the game. Music creators will also be able to share their recordings with their friends online through GHTunes”.
Thus far, Van Halen, Linkin Park, The Eagles and Sublime are confirmed artists offering tracks for the game, on what Activision claims will be “the largest on-disc set list in a music-rhythm game to-date”.
Guitar Hero: World Tour is being developed by Neversoft for the Xbox 360 and PS3. A Wii version is being developed by Vicarious Visions, and a PS2 version by Budcat. No firm release date is established, although most expect it by year’s end 2008.
peachey @ May 22, 2008