GUITAR HERO WORLD TOUR GUITAR XBOX SIMULATOR

We were given the chance to play Guitar Hero World Tour this week, along with several other media representatives who were only too happy to fill in as additional band members - allowing us to try the new peripherals one at a time.

GUITAR HERO WORLD TOUR GUITAR XBOX SIMULATOR

In the meantime, it's Activision to the rescue, as this hard-hitting, bass-thumping rock band simulator is due to arrive November 13th! Thus, Guitar Hero World Tour was conceived.ĮA of course has scarcely been caught napping they're on the verge of releasing Rock Band 2 (in the States, at least) and their army of boffins have no doubt inspected Guitar Hero World Tour and are plotting a bit of one-upmanship themselves, but we'll wait for it to hit New Zealand before we get all excited about that.

It just makes sense - if you're going to take Guitar Hero and add peripherals such as a drum kit and microphone, you may as well see how your competition already went about doing the same thing. Whilst Activision and Red Octane enjoyed record sales for their guitar-only title, they couldn't sit idly by and let Rock Band take the lead, so they performed a bit of legal industrial espionage, pulling apart EA's Rock Band product to determine how they could make it better. Meanwhile Red Octane partnered with Activision's Neversoft development group to continue work on Guitar Hero, releasing Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. Red Octane had the rights to Guitar Hero, so last year Harmonix came up with a new game by taking the same formula but extending it with the addition of a drum kit and microphone to the mix - before packaging it up as Rock Band, published by Electronic Arts. This was of course wildly successful, however the duo split up a year later when Red Octane was snapped up by Activision and Harmonix got acquired by MTV.

Well, Red Octane and Harmonix first teamed up back in 2005 to release the original Guitar Hero. Doubly so if you actually made it in the first place. It's so much easier to make a successful product when you can pull apart something someone else has done and make it better. In many ways, it can actually be a huge advantage to enter a market slightly later than your competition.

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