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Background

Guitar Hero IV is the next installment of Guitar Hero which comes packed with new songs and features and will for the first time, introduces drums and vocals.

Gameplay

In this latest installmentof Guitar Hero, World Tour transforms music gaming by expanding the signature guitar gameplay into a cooperative band experience combining the most advanced wireless instruments with new revolutionary online and offline gameplay modes, including online Band Career and eight player “Battle of the Bands,” which allows two full bands to compete head-to-head online for the first time ever. The game features a slick newly redesigned guitar, an authentic electronic drum kit and a microphone, as well as an innovative Music Studio music creator that lets players compose, record, edit, and share their original rock ‘n’ roll anthems.

Features

• All new instruments: Play state of the art wireless instruments including a slick newly redesigned guitar controller, authentic drum kit and microphone.
• Innovative Music Studio: This revolutionary new feature incorporates a full complement of tools to create digital music from scratch utilizing the drum kit and guitar controller while offering the opportunity to play compositions in game.
• Battle of the Bands Mode: Rock out in solo career mode or battle against other full bands head to head online for the first time ever.
• Create a Rocker: Customize your own rocker, select one of your favorite Guitar Hero characters or choose one of the guest artists appearing in game.
• The rock ‘n’ roll experience: It’s the most expansive and diverse on disc track selection in a music game with over 85 master tracks!

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Operating System: Windows XP® (Service Pack 3), Windows Vista® SP1
CPU: Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon™ 4400+
Memory: XP® – 1 GB RAM, Vista® – 2 GB RAM
Hard Drive: 8.1 GB free hard drive space + 1 GB Swap File
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Video Card: 3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required – 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 256 MB Video Memory with Shader 3.0 support (see supported list)
Video Card (ATI): Radeon™ X1600
Video Card (Nvidia): GeForce® 7600
Disc Drive: 8x DVD-ROM drive required to install and play
Internet: Online multiplayer (Internet TCP/IP) requires a broadband connection
Peripherals: Windows XP®/Vista® compatible mouse and keyboard with the latest drivers, Official Guitar Hero World Tour Guitar Controller, PLAYSTATION®3 Guitar Hero World Tour Guitar Controller, PLAYSTATION®3 Guitar Hero World Tour Drum Controller, PLAYSTATION®3 Guitar Hero World Tour USB Microphone

CPU: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon™ X2 Dual-Core 5200+
Video Card: 512 MB 3D Hardware Accelerator Card with Shader 3.0 support
Video Card (ATI): Radeon™ HD 3870
Video Card (Nvidia): GeForce® 8800 GT
Memory: 2 GB RAM

Internet (TCP/IP) or LAN(TCP/IP) play supported
Internet play requires broadband connection and latest drivers
LAN play requires network interface card with latest drivers

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First of all, don’t ever buy this game without having access to a Guitar controller. Playing on the keyboard and mouse, no matter how great yours are will muck up the gameplay. It’ll never feel like playing on a console without the proper peripheral. So, yeah it’s a little late for making a review for the game but still better late than never. Now that I managed to borrow my friend Gabby’s Guitar controller from his Xbox 360, I can finally play. And play I did. When I got home last night from my friend Oliver’s place I went straight to playing. I played from 12:30 A.M. straight to 5 in the morning.  Finally I got the feel for playing Guitar Hero on the PC with the proper controller. Ever since I got myself a copy of Guitar Hero 4, I’ve been itching to play Guitar Hero forever. I know, I’m the last person to play this game, but it’s still darn worth it. World Tour is even better, but I kind of like the songs from Guitar Hero 4 better.  Sadly I don’t have anyone else to play this game but I don’t mind, the Single player experience is enough for me to say that it’s hella worth it.

Bit of a spoiler, don’t read if you don’t wanna find out.

The only part I didn’t like was the fact that they put together the drummer from Blink 182, Sting, and Ozzy to sing songs from different bands and then made Ozzy look like he was lipsyncing like Britney Spears. It was an odd experience for me seeing Ozzy growling in a song.  And the fact that they tried to include the credits along the song by Dream Theatre. Sure it was long enough to include ALL of the credits along with literally EVERYBODY that was part of making the game and the performers and all that. Noone’s gonna be able to read it since they’d be too busy playing the darn game. Well that is, if you’re playing single player.  I also didn’t like that they separated the controls even if the game was set on single player mode. So it was pretty cumbersome trying to edit the character, the name, the symbol / logo of your band, the name of your character. It was annoying!!!!!!!! But overall it was still worth the wait.