Guitar Hero: Now with drums and mic!

Without a doubt, Rock Band is one of the greatest ryhthm games made to date. It even beats Guitar Hero, in my opinion. There are just so many more ways to play! But now, Activision plans on going head to head with Rock Band with Guitar Hero IV, adding other instruments into the mix.

They're doomed.

In my opinion, Activision is effectively killing their franchise by adding other instruments. I would compare it to selling "Cheerios, now with Wheaties and Corn Flakes!" It's self contradictory! It's GUITAR Hero Activision--stick to guitars. I expect that this will cause many gamers to shake their heads and laugh, and wait anxiously for the next Rock Band.

Activision sure doesn't have looks on their side either--judging from the Game Informer scans here, the drum pad for GHIV is both more complex than Rock Band's--which was already pretty difficult to play, by the way--and it just looks bulky and unappealing. Is the end near for the franchise?

Harmonix to Nintendo: "HDD for DLC"

After hearing that Rock Band for Wii would not have downloadable content, or possibly no online at all, I said "screw that, I'll get it for PS2." But now, Harmonix is talking about adding DLC for the Wii version. The catch? Nintendo has to put out a hard drive for the Wii.

In my opinion, a hrad drive should have been done months ago anyway, considering that the Wii has only 512 MB of storage, and since Guitar Hero 3 is supposed to be getting DLC as well, more space will soon be needed.

Of course, the outcome of all of this is yet to be seen, and there is still the fact that Guitar Hero 3 controllers won't work with the Wii version of Rock Band (I REALLY don't want to spend another $60 just to be able to play 4 player), so it really comes down to personal preference. Myself, I'm still leaning PS2 just for the controllers, but if there's for sure going to be DLC then my mind may soon change.

Source: QJ.net