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Guitar Hero 4: World Tour delivers more ways to play than ever before. Virtual musicians can live out their rock and roll fantasies by playing either a single instrument, or any combination of instruments, in addition to the full band experience.

In addition to all of the online gameplay modes from Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock, Guitar Hero World Tour introduces Battle of the Bands mode which allows eight players to join online and challenge each other band-to-band to determine who is the best of the best. In the Band modes, up to four players can jam together, online or off, as they progress through the game, and in single-player Career Mode, players can jam on any of the instruments in branching venue progression enabling them to rock out in the order of their choice.

Neversoft returns to the stage with a solid, though somewhat disappointing, performance. Find out all about it in this Guitar Hero World Tour video review.


To quote the IGN video review: “Guitar Hero World Tour is a fun title, to be sure, but it’s also a disappointment in a lot of respects. A number of things it tries to accomplish were already done better in Rock Band, which you might figure would have provided a simple blueprint to be followed and expanded upon, but that’s not the case. The music creation tools are a great idea in theory, but the end result isn’t as robust as I would have hoped it would be, both in terms of abilities as well as the songs that come out the other end. The game does have a good bit going for it and can serve to act as a stepping-off point for next year’s game, whatever form that might take.”

Presentation — 7.0
Graphics — 7.0
Sound — 8.0
Gameplay — 8.0
Lasting Appeal — 8.0
Overall — 7.9

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How to unlock all Guitar Hero 4: World Tour songs? You will get the answer to that question on this page. Below you can find the codes and cheats to enter into the music rhythm game’s Wii, PS2, PS3 and Xbox 360 versions to get new: songs, modes, characters and more.

To enter codes for unlocking songs and such, you must: At the main menu, select “Options”. Choose the “Cheats” selection, and click on “Enter New Cheat”. When you reached that screen you can input the below cheat codes…

* Unlock Quickplay Songs that lets you play all songs right away: Press Blue(2), Red, Green(2), Blue(2), Yellow.

* Performance Mode: Press Yellow(2), Blue, Red, Blue, Green, Red(2).

* HyperSpeed (AKA HyperGuitar, HyperBass & HyperDrums): Press Green, Blue, Red, Yellow(2), Red, Green(2).

* Air Instruments: Press Red(2), Blue, Yellow, Green(3), Yellow.

* Invisible Characters: Press Green, Red, Yellow(3), Blue(2), Green.

* Auto Kick: Press Yellow, Green, Red, Blue(4), Red.

* Get Aaron Steele: Press Blue, Red, Yellow(5), Green.

* Get Nick: Press Green, Red, Blue, Green, Red, Blue(2), Green.

* Get Johnny Viper: Press Blue, Red, Blue(2), Yellow(3), Green.

* Get Rina: Press Blue, Red, Green(2), Yellow(3), Green.

* AT&T Ballpark: Press Yellow, Green, Red(2), Green, Blue, Red, Yellow.

* Gem Color: Press Blue, Red(2), Green, Red, Green, Red, Yellow.

* Flame Color: Press Green, Red, Green, Blue, Red(2), Yellow, Blue.

* Star Color: Press Red(2), Yellow, Red, Blue, Red(2), Blue.

* Vocal Fireball: Press Red, Green(2), Yellow, Blue, Green, Yellow, Green.

* Always Slide: Press Green(2), Red(2), Yellow, Red, Yellow, Blue.

* Extra Line 6 Tones: Press Green, Red, Yellow, Blue, Red, Yellow, Blue, Green.

Bob made a video that shows Guitar Hero World Tour cheats being entered into the game.

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More talk of possible ways to milk every penny out of Guitar Hero owners was discussed at a recent Activision-Blizzard analyst event. One such idea is a subscription service for the upcoming entry in the Guitar Hero franchise.

Looking even further out, we’re exploring new models, like an annual pass subscription where players can subscribe and get a certain number of songs downloadable each month.

-Activision Publishing CEO, Mike Griffith

Now before everyone throws up their hands in disgust…think about it. Purchasing a simple annual pass to download a large batch of content is not a bad idea at all especially when you compare it to RockBand’s DLC system (If the Wii version had DLC anyway). I could only see this becoming successful if they actually follow through with planned weekly music releases.

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Activision has revealed the complete 86-track song list for Guitar Hero 4: World Tour. The set list is entirely made up of master recordings instead of cover versions. For the first time there will be other instruments to use besides the guitar, namely the microphone and drums to give a full band experience. The popular music-rhythm game will be released for Xbox 360, PS2, PS3 and Wii in America on October 26th, in Europe on November 7th, and in Australia on November 12th, 2008.

The below list is ordered by band name and followed by song title. You’ll notice they link to a video of the song itself or the song being played in the game (depending on availability), each video will pop up in a new window for you to watch when you click on the link.

Here’s the full list including videos for each song:
1. 311 - “Beautiful Disaster”
2. 30 Seconds To Mars - “The Kill”
3. Airbourne - “Too Much Too Young”
4. The Allman Brothers Band - “Ramblin’ Man”
5. Anouk - “Good God”
6. The Answer - “Never Too Late”
7. At The Drive-In - “One Armed Scissor”
8. Beastie Boys - “No Sleep Till Brooklyn”
9. Beatsteaks - “Hail to the Freaks”
10. Billy Idol - “Rebel Yell”
11. Black Label Society - “Stillborn”
12. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - “Weapon of Choice”
13. blink-182 - “Dammit”
14. Blondie - “One Way or Another”
15. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - “Hollywood Nights”
16. Bon Jovi - “Livin’ On A Prayer”
17. Bullet For My Valentine - “Scream Aim Fire”
18. Coldplay - “Shiver”
19. Creedence Clearwater Revival - “Up Around The Bend”
20. The Cult - “Love Removal Machine”
21. Dinosaur Jr. - “Feel The Pain”
22. The Doors - “Love Me Two Times”
23. Dream Theater - “Pull Me Under”
24. The Eagles - “Hotel California”
25. The Enemy - “Aggro”
26. Filter - “Hey Man, Nice Shot”
27. Fleetwood Mac - “Go Your Own Way”
28. Foo Fighters - “Everlong”
29. The Guess Who - “American Woman”
30. Hush Puppies - “You’re Gonna Say Yeah!”
31. Interpol - “Obstacle 1″
32. Jane’s Addiction - “Mountain Song”
33. Jimi Hendrix - “Purple Haze (Live)”
34. Jimi Hendrix - “The Wind Cries Mary”
35. Jimmy Eat World - “The Middle”
36. Joe Satriani - “Satch Boogie”
37. Kent - “Vinternoll2″
38. Korn - “Freak On A Leash”
39. Lacuna Coil - “Our Truth”
40. Lenny Kravitz - “Are You Gonna Go My Way”
41. Linkin Park - “What I’ve Done”
42. The Living End - “Prisoner of Society”
43. Los Lobos - “La Bamba”
44. Lost Prophets - “Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)”
45. Lynyrd Skynyrd - “Sweet Home Alabama (Live)”
46. Mars Volta - “L’Via L’Viaquez”
47. MC5’s Wayne Kramer - “Kick Out The Jams”
48. Metallica - “Trapped Under Ice”
49. Michael Jackson - “Beat It”
50. Modest Mouse - “Float On”
51. Motorhead - “Overkill”
52. Muse - “Assassin”
53. Negramaro - “Nuvole e Lenzuola”
54. Nirvana - “About a Girl (Unplugged)”
55. No Doubt - “Spiderwebs”
56. NOFX - “Soul Doubt”
57. Oasis - “Some Might Say”
58. Ozzy Osbourne - “Crazy Train”
59. Ozzy Osbourne - “Mr. Crowley”
60. Paramore - “Misery Business”
61. Pat Benatar - “Heartbreaker”
62. R.E.M. - “The One I Love”
63. Radio Futura - “Escuela De Calor”
64. Rise Against - “Re-Education Through Labor”
65. Sex Pistols - “Pretty Vacant”
66. Silversun Pickups - “Lazy Eye”
67. Smashing Pumpkins - “Today”
68. Steely Dan - “Do It Again”
69. Steve Miller Band - “The Joker”
70. Sting - “Demolition Man (Live)”
71. The Stone Roses - “Love Spreads”
72. Stuck In The Sound - “Toy Boy”
73. Sublime - “Santeria”
74. Survivor - “Eye of the Tiger”
75. System of a Down - “B.Y.O.B.”
76. Ted Nugent - “Stranglehold”
77. Ted Nugent’s Original Guitar Duel Recording
78. Tokio Hotel - “Monsoon”
79. Tool - “Parabola”
80. Tool - “Schism”
81. Tool - “Vicarious”
82. Trust - “Antisocial”
83. Van Halen - “Hot For Teacher”
84. Willie Nelson - “On The Road Again”
85. Wings - “Band on the Run”
86. Zakk Wylde’s Original Guitar Duel Recording

Additionally, on the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii versions of the game you can download more songs. You’ll be able to find the downloadable content through the in-game store, which will include full albums, as you can see in the following list.

Downloadable content list including videos for each song:
1. Metallica - “That Was Just Your Life”
2. Metallica - “The End of the Line”
3. Metallica - “Broken, Beat & Scarred”
4. Metallica - “The Day That Never Comes”
5. Metallica - “All Nightmare Long”
6. Metallica - “Cyanide”
7. Metallica - “The Unforgiven III”
8. Metallica - “The Judas Kiss”
9. Metallica - “Suicide & Redemption”
10. Metallica - “My Apocalypse”
11. R.E.M - “Horse to Water”
12. R.E.M - “Man-Sized Wreath”
13. R.E.M - “Supernatural Superserious”
14. Smashing Pumpkins - “G.L.O.W.”
15. Smashing Pumpkins - “1979″
16. Smashing Pumpkins - “The Everlasting Gaze”
* Jimi Hendrix songs not on the game disc will be made available for download later on as well, and with him no doubt many others.

But that’s not all, in Advanced Studio mode on every version of the game you can create your own custom songs. Once you’ve made a song — you can add distortion plus guitar and drum effects — you can only share them with others using Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. If you upload (up to five of) your songs to the GH Tunes service, other players will be able to download and rate them.

It took me many hours to make this list, so please enjoy.

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Guitar Hero 4: World Tour (or simply Guitar Hero World Tour) is the follow-up to the extremely popular Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock game that lit-up the video game world upon it’s release (alongside Rock Band).

The game will be coming out for Wii, Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Playstation 2 in late October in both the U.S. and Europe this year.

This game is not to be confused with the already released Guitar Hero: On Tour for Nintendo DS, which is getting it’s own sequel called “Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades”. Notice the slight difference in subtitles, DS is “ON Tour” not “World Tour.”

Naturally the game will enhance nearly every aspect of Guitar Hero including the addition of instruments other than guitar, so that it is finally a complete “band” game (naturally to compete with Rock Band 2), but it also has unique features of it’s own.

Give a look at Guitar Hero: World Tour’s features in this video from E3 2008.

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Joystiq yesterday posted several new details on major upcoming Activision titles, based on information from an Intellisponse survey leaked on the popular NeoGAF gaming forum.

The juiciest details concern Guitar Hero: World Tour, which the survey states will be priced at $180 on all current-gen platforms, Wii included, and feature music from artists such as Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Korn, System of a Down, Ozzy Osbourne, Interpol, Muse and “dozens more.”

Most compelling, however, are details about the game’s new “touch-sensitive” guitar. According to the survey, Guitar Hero: World Tour will utilize an “all new wireless guitar controller with the first-ever touch-sensitive neck slide,” apparently allowing for a more authentic guitar-playing experience than can be provided by mere buttons.

The survey also revealed an as-yet-unnamed Spider-Man title for Wii will use the balance board. From the survey:

“…Climb atop your Wii Fit Board to control Spider-Man’s acrobatic abilities like never before. Lean one way or the other to send Spider-Man soaring in the air. Jump as high as you can to propel Spider-Man off Manhattan’s tallest rooftops. Hop quickly to help Spidey climb walls and get a vertical advantage over his enemies. Stop your feet to kick and cartwheel foes in the city’s darkest alleys…”

In the last bits of Wii news in an otherwise 360-focused survey, a separate multi-platform Spider-Man game was also revealed. In Spider-Man vs. Marvel Zombies, as the title suggests, players control Spider-Man in a battle against zombified Marvel characters. The new Ultimate Band Wii trailer Blake posted earlier also emerged from this leak, and interestingly, a Tony Hawk game supporting a new balance board peripheral was revealed for 360 and PS3, but not Wii.

Also, beginning this holiday, Microsoft will offer an “Avatar” service to Xbox LIVE members allowing them to customize a miniature version of themselves, Nintendo-related only in how much of a rip-off it is.

Each of these tidbits, of course, should be considered a “rumor” until Activision confirms. It seems the E3 information leaks have begun.

Source: videogamesblogger.com

Activision’s Guitar Hero 4: World Tour listings on the GameStop online shop have revealed the release date is October 27th, 2008, in America on the PS2, Wii, PS3, Xbox 360. The music-rhythm game will be available as just the $50-$60 game (for those who already have a guitar and only want to use that); as a $100 Guitar Kit; or an expensive $180-$190 Band Kit (that includes a wireless guitar, wireless drums and wired microphone).

Guitar Hero 4: World Tour is comprised entirely of master recordings from some of the greatest classic and modern rock bands of all-time including Van Halen, Linkin Park, The Eagles, Sublime and many more. The game will have more localized downloadable music than ever before on all of the next-generation consoles (Xbox 360, PS3 AND Wii). Budding rock stars will also be given creative license to fully customize everything from their characters’ appearance and instruments to their band’s logo and album covers. — Via Neogaf

Source: infendo.com

I guess it’s Guitar Hero World Tour week here at Infendo. Preliminary pricing for Wii is in the poorly copied image above. Placeholder date is 10/27/08. Just in time for Halloween. What do you guys and gals think of a $190 price tag?

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In conjunction with today’s press release the official website for the upcoming Guitar Hero: World Tour was launched. Visual details surrounding the “changes” to the Guitar controller still remain unknown…until now. Want a quick sneak peak at what’s in store? The above snapshot (taken by our own Infendo Ninjas) is directly from the GHIV website. It shows what looks to be both the bass and lead guitars with the main 5 buttons up top, and a new set of 5 keys extending down the controller. No official word has been released by Activision concerning the new keys, but E3 looks to be the place to hear more info.

I think I hear Rock Band crying.

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Guitar Hero World Tour. You’ve seen the drums, now marvel at the press release!

ACTIVISION UNVEILS GUITAR HERO® WORLD TOUR – THE DEFINITIVE ROCK & ROLL MUSIC VIDEOGAMING EXPERIENCE

New State of the Art Wireless Instruments

Innovative Music Studio Lets Players Compose, Record, Edit and Share Music

Biggest Selection of On-Disc Music with All Master Tracks

Robust New Eight-Player “Battle of the Bands” Mode

First Game Ever in the Guitar Hero® Franchise to Allow In-Game Downloadable Content on Wii

Santa Monica, CA – May 22, 2008 – When the house lights go down this fall, a new generation of axe shredders, drummers and fearless frontmen will come together and rock with Activision, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) Guitar Hero® World Tour. The latest installment from the #1 best-selling video game franchise of 2007, Guitar Hero World Tour will transform music gaming by marrying Guitar Hero’s® exhilarating guitar gameplay, with a cooperative band experience that combines the most advanced wireless instruments with revolutionary new online and offline gameplay modes. The game will feature a slick newly redesigned guitar, a genuine electronic drum kit and a microphone, as well as an innovative Music Studio music creator that lets players compose, record, edit and share their own rock and roll anthems, along with online Band Career and 8-player “Battle of the Bands.”

Delivering the largest on-disc set list in a music-rhythm game to-date, Guitar Hero World Tour is comprised entirely of master recordings from some of the greatest classic and modern rock bands of all-time including Van Halen, Linkin Park, The Eagles, Sublime and many more. Additionally, the game will offer significantly more localized downloadable music than ever before on all of the next-generation consoles. Budding rock stars will also be given creative license to fully customize everything from their characters’ appearance and instruments to their band’s logo and album covers.

In addition to a newly designed more responsive guitar controller and microphone, Guitar Hero World Tour will deliver the most realistic drum experience ever in a video game with an authentic electronic drum kit. Featuring three drum pads, two raised cymbals and a bass kick pedal, the drum controller combines larger and quieter, velocity-sensitive drum heads with soft rubber construction to deliver authentic bounce back and is easy to set up, move, break down and store.

“Guitar Hero has set the standard for music-based gaming and with Guitar Hero World Tour and the game’s groundbreaking Music Studio, we are once again delivering unprecedented innovation that has the potential to revolutionize consumer generated music, much in the same way that video sharing hubs have driven user generated video,” said Dusty Welch, Head of Publishing for RedOctane. “With the introduction of our advanced high-quality new wireless instruments, in-depth customization options and advanced online functionality, the game enables music fans and gamers globally to share in the most social and expressive music experience ever.”

Guitar Hero World Tour delivers more ways to play than ever before. Virtual musicians can live out their rock and roll fantasies by playing either a single instrument, or any combination of instruments, in addition to the full band experience. In addition to all of the online gameplay modes from Guitar Hero® III: Legends of Rock, Guitar Hero World Tour introduces Battle of the Bands mode which allows eight players to join online and challenge each other band-to-band to determine who is the best of the best. In the Band modes, up to four players can jam together, online or off, as they progress through the game, and in single-player Career Mode, players can jam on any of the instruments in branching venue progression enabling them to rock out in the order of their choice.

The game’s innovative new Music Studio lets players express their musical creativity by giving them access to a full compliment of tools to create digital music from scratch, utilizing all of the instruments, and then play their compositions in the game. Music creators will also be able to share their recordings with their friends online through GHTunes™ where other gamers can download their unique compositions and play them.

Guitar Hero World Tour is being developed by Neversoft Entertainment for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. The Wii™ version is being developed by Vicarious Visions. The PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system version is being developed by Budcat. The game is not yet rated by the ESRB.

Release sourced from Kotaku.