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I've just preordered the full band pack - yikes! I'm going to have to build an extension to house all my plastic instruments.

Is anyone else getting this? I'm justifying it by the fact that I'll be able to use the kit for at least three games. It's still expensive, though.

Has anyone in InternetLand yet played Rock Band with the drums from GH:WT? I want to know how they map the cymbals.

I don't know, and it doesn't look like it's going to concern me that much. Apparently RB2 is massively superior to the first game and for 800 points you're going to be able to download 45 songs from the first game for RB2 - doesn't that make the need for me to buy the RB1 disc pretty much obsolete?

I think you need the rock band 1 disc to buy the transfer thing mind. You also need abotu 4000 points to download all the awesome dlc from rock band.

Myoptika, I hereby demand that you move to Greenwich.

Or just give me your stuff.

Can you just rent it though?
*should probably have asked this before spending £40 a few weeks ago*

Oh, don't fucking say that, I only finally bought the RB1 disc at the weekend

Sorry, I mean, playing any Rock Band game (i.e. note track designed for four drum pads) with the GH:WT drums (i.e. three pads, two cymbols).

If this feels good I'd be in the market for the GH:WT instruments.

This would be preferable.

Awesome! Bring all your Guitar Hero gubbins down in November for the first installment.

cant see why not, you will lose a few tracks mind but Im sure the ones you do are the bonus tracks and a few cover versions.

It appears that you can rent it, yes. They have no way of knowing if a particular Rock Band disc has been used for the import or not. I'm surprised they have started putting a pack-in code with game to control this stuff.

The songs you lose are Enter Sandman by Metallica, Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden, Paranoid by Black Sabbath and Monsoon by Tokyo Hotel. In all, you transfer 55 of the 58 core Rock Band songs, and 9 of the 10 European bonus tracks. Plus all Rock Band DLC automatically transfers into Rock Band 2 for free.

Ooh, fancy lending it to me when you get RB2 then?

Well, I guess those were worth the £40.

I played this at an 'event' and, honestly, when there's four of you powering through Eye Of The Tiger, it's enough to make grown men weep in unified joy.

Yeah, could do. Do Blockbusters rent it? It'd be more efficient. If they don't I wouldn't object to my copy doing a BETEO tour as long as I got it back in the end.

1000 gamerscore to be gotten though. win.

how good are you like?

I only got 300 or something from it. You must be pretty good if you can complete vocals, drums and guitar on expert.

It's really stingy with gamerscore, mind.

I'm gonna go trade the fucking thing in for Pure, first chance I get then. I abhore that kind of scamming release method.

Hmm. I think I disagree. Where is the scam?

Rock Band is what it is; 68 tracks on the disc. The fact that they have allowed import of the tracks into RB2 is a damned good thing from where I am standing; it means I can have a single unified view of all my Rock Band song content to choose from when playing the game with a gang of mates.

It does do the thing where if you complete a higher difficulty level it gives you the achievements for all the lower difficulty levels too, though. Which really ought to be standard for everything, ever.

Also: you're totally right, the way they've handled upgrades from RB to RB2 is the exact opposite of a scam.

Can you not get the gamery points from RB1 via playing RB2 then, even if playing the same songs?

The whole 'music games' arms race amuses me greatly.

Just you watch... for the next iteration, one of them is going to get a keyboard, then the other is going to up the ante by adding one of those keyboard-guitars.

My gripe with Rock Band is that the sound of the drums being whacked drowns out a lot of the music.

If I understand correctly, my purchase of Rock Band was a wasted one if I am to ever get Rock Band II (and since I've just bought the first one, this is likely), without any indication that is the case. But of course, not ALL of the songs are available. No, no, no. Leave off a tasty number like Enter Sandman *wink* that'll ensure the kids still buy the first one.

No, Microsoft rules would forbid that -- 1000GP per disk, always.

It's better with those stick on pads. Plus, my drumming is a little... enthusiastic.

It's not Harmonix's fault that you didn't know about their incredibly generous take-your-music-into-the-next game feature, which has been widely publicised since Rock Band 2 was announced. Furthermore they wanted to let you bring all the songs over but could not get the music copyright owners to relicence all the tracks. I suspect that Metallica's deal with Guitar Hero (see the Death Magnetic whole-album DLC and the widely rumoured forthcoming Guitar Hero: Metallica) precludes future Metallica content in Rock Band.

Also, you need to have a Rock Band disc to do the import process, and I suspect doing it from a borrowed or rented copy is probably illegal under the T&Cs. It's not a wasted purchase.

AH. That's very different then

Sorry for ressurecting an older thread. The wife's getting World Tour, just the single guitar pack, for her birthday. How d'you guys think it'll play with just the one instrument? Much like GH3 (which she loved on my bro's xbox btw) or only 1/4 of a game?

We actively encourage dead thread resurrection, so don't worry. To answer your question, I guess both. It'll play much like GHIII, but will also be half a game (bass and guitar, remember).

Oh, I'll go digging through the old threads to clumsily re-animate then

Mrs Davpaz is muchly looking forward to the delivery of WT even though she doesn't think much of the new guitar ("It's brown!")

Especially when they're only six days old

It's not quite dead.... it's getting better.... "I feel HAPPY!"

There wasnt a bass guitar career on rock band, not sure if theres one on guitar hero world tour, probably not because bass is boring.
Id quite like the new guitar hero guitar for the touch pad thing, apparently its pretty much essential for the studio create a track gimmick. But I really dont need another plastic guitar, Ive got 2 PS2 ones, and 3 for my xbox 360 and 5 real guitars hanging round the house aswell.

I'm getting rid of my two X-Plorers when World Tour arrives, as I don't have room for them all.

I'm not sure about GH:WT either, but I have read Rock Band 2 has a bass career.

I'd be interested in taking one of those of your hands mate.

Make me an offer I can't refuse, then.

I'll start at 2 Mojos and a Black Jack.

Epic fail.

I'll go as high as a Wham! bar, but my pocket money only stretches so far, man!

Seriously though, if it's in good condition, I'll pay a good price of real money

Excellent. I'll let you know when it's available.

This comes the day after Shunt, and I won't get to pick it up from the delivery office until Monday as I've got a wedding to go to.

I hope nobody was looking forward to the song creation mode; someone's posted up a couple of the example songs on YouTube and the results aren't looking too good...

Terrible. But they could be just crap at it.

I think the issue is that if you're good enough to make decent songs using that, you probably wouldn't bother as you'd write proper songs instead.

I'd forgotten about the song creation mode, tbh.

Unfortunately I don't think it matters how good you are at creating songs in it as the game appears to do a shit job of generating charts from songs (and I think those songs are example ones included with the game; if the developers can't get it right, what hope is there for the rest of us?).

Also the sounds appear to be coming from a Yamaha keyboard circa 1993.

I was very dubious about this. I read in interview where they say that whatever the person plays goes down as the Expert level note chart and the game auto-generates the easier difficulty levels; that sounded shit to me then and doesn't sound any better now.

Shhh - back to Rock Band with you.

GH:WT to get new Bond theme as DLC?

http://kotaku.com/5072422/bond-song-com ... world-tour



Maybe Harmonix will counter it with their new bezzie mate's unreleased Goldfinger theme.