Guitar Hero 4: Aka the Rock Band Ripoff Edition

[Grahf16]

The June issue of Game Informer has an exclusive cover story on the fourth major entry in Activision’s top-selling Guitar Hero franchise.

Guitar Hero IV will follow closely in the footsteps of Rock Band, offering new instruments including a bass, microphone, and six-piece drumset that includes two cymbals. It is unknown whether or not the Guitar Hero IV instruments and Rock Band instruments will be cross-compatible.

Due to the recent falling-out between Gibson and Activision, Guitar Hero IV’s guitars will not be licensed and instead will be custom-designed by the developer. They will incorporate a currently unrevealed feature that will “directly impact the way you play Guitar Hero in the future.”

Rock stars can step into the studio to create their own songs and share them with other players online courtesy of the newly minted Guitar Hero Tunes service, but these tracks will be devoid of vocals.

Players will even be able to design their own musicians, album art, and instruments on-screen from scratch.

While no song titles were yet confirmed, Van Halen, The Eagles, Sublime, and Linkin Park will all be making appearances on the tracklist. All songs in the game will be master tracks.

The game is in development at Red Octane and Neversoft and will be arriving on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii by year’s end. Look for more details and the first media in the coming weeks.

Activision has two other upcoming Guitar Hero franchise titles, including the ‘On Tour’ mobile version and the Aerosmith edition.

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Wow, Activision/Neversoft fail harder than anything imaginable

[LedD]

well we all new it was gonna happen who was gonna actually just buy a guitar anymore

[The Trillest]

They had better put in a DragonForce song. Much harder songs than TTFAF on any of their albums.

[CO0L]

so now guitar hero is going to be more expensive plus its going to be a rip off of a rip off?

[Outlaw_91791]

this is just as gay as the 360 version of the wii mote.

[Nyx__]

Originally Posted by CO0L

so now guitar hero is going to be more expensive plus its going to be a rip off of a rip off?

Rock Band was made by the original makers of Guitar Hero and published by EA after Activision let them go. Harmonix can't rip off themselves... can they?

[chrissearl4]

Yeah sooner or later this was going to happen... i dont think anyone would be content on just playing "guitar hero"

Rockband to me got old, especially when you reach your goals... when you can play every thing on expert and sing on expert, then you've got issues

[ckm1224]

this game can't be called guitar hero 4 if there's 3 more real-life instruments involved; it's like discrimination to the drums, bass, and microphone.

this game makes no sense what-so-ever. and the cymbals look like one slam and they'd break off completely. wanting and taking the guitar hero franchise? riding rock band's dick and making this crap? at least neversoft knows they're harmonix's bitch.

[Bathing Ape]

They got that create-a-song feature going on, that might be cool but yeah, it's a massive Rock Band rip-off, no matter how much they try to differentiate the style of the drums

[and123w]

Fuckin' lame