![]() ![]() Rock Band 4’s guitar solo mode in all its… well, yellow linednessįrom what I can tell these seem to be tweaked versions of the freestyle sections in Harmonix’s forgotten Xbox Fantasia game, and to be honest I could do without them because more often than not the resulting solos sound a bit off. Here you can play any notes you want and the game will attempt to make a decent-sounding solo out of them. Very little has changed, other than addition of freestyle solo sections. ![]() Since Rock Band 4sticks with the same classic five-colour highway system, if you’ve played any of the previous Rock Band or Guitar Hero games you should be right at home here. Since it has a completely different button set-up (more about that in the next round), that means the old five-colour button system no longer works and as a result none of your old controllers are compatible.Īlthough Rock Band introduced drums, vocals and (eventually) keyboards to the mix, for most fans the guitar is still the instrument of choice. The same can’t be said about Guitar Hero Live. That’s obviously a very specific example, though: most wireless last-gen controllers should work with Rock Band 4 without any hassle. That means my trusty Guitar Hero II Xplorer – my favourite guitar controller ever and the one I’ve used for every Xbox 360 Guitar Hero and Rock Band game – had to finally go into retirement. It isn’t completely perfect, mind: because of Microsoft’s device-signing process wired controllers won’t work. My wireless Guitar Hero 3 Xbox 360 guitar works with the Xbox One version of Rock Band 4. Rock Band 4 prides itself on being backwards compatible with a lot of old Rock Band and Guitar Hero peripherals and for the most part this is spot on. ![]() Sleep well, sweet prince of plastic video game instruments Any game that lets you make use of your old equipment without having to buy new stuff has to be a good thing, then. Though this isn’t necessarily a deal-breaker for anyone coming into either series for the first time, there are still plenty of houses around the world with plastic guitars gathering dust from the previous generation. Having bought both games at launch (with my own cash, I should stress) and spent a couple of months with each now, I reckon I’m in a good position to give you my unbiased, detailed opinion on which of the two you should go for. The question, then, is which is best: Guitar Hero Live or Rock Band 4? Not everyone’s as obsessed with this genre as I am, though, so it’s understandable that the vast majority of gamers would probably only want to buy one of these games. It goes without saying, then, that the return of both series in 2015 was a massive deal for me, and the fact that both actually seemed significantly different from each other made things even more interesting. Can be a fun thing to try if you have a DS model hanging around (and with how well they sold, I'd worry if you didn't).I’m an enormous fan of rhythm action games, and was still happily buying every new Guitar Hero and Rock Band game even while everyone else was losing interest in the genre. Using a DS or 3DS you can control the setlist during play and even play co-op mini-games. Would Tour onwards introduces full band support.Įdit: Oh, and various Wii versions of games have some exclusive features, like Roadie mode. The major quality jumps tend to be from GHIII to World Tour, and then from World Tour to 5 and later there's not much improvement beyond that. Some character customisation features, like tattoos, gradually got lost for whatever reason, but the graphics as a whole in Warriors of Rock (the last GH game before the hiatus and GH Live) are better than the games that preceded it. The graphics tended to get better as the series progressed and the Wii game engine diverged more and more from the PS2 version (which held it back somewhat the loading I've seen on some PS2 games is horrible compared to equivalent Wii games). The Wii won't have the shiniest graphics, but it still looked good in my opinion. If you've seen any videos on Youtube or wherever of songs not in the disc setlist being played in a particular game, then it's DLC and won't be available any more. ![]() You may be required to play through each game's career mode in order to unlock some songs, and you can probably find full lists of what's available in each game if you look online. Note that the DLC servers for games prior to Guitar Hero Live (the most recent one) are now defunct, so what you get on-disc is it. ![]()
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