Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: Spinnzilla on August 13, 2009, 02:23:11 PM
Title: Guitar Hero 5. (First batch of WT exports announced)
Post by: Spinnzilla on August 13, 2009, 02:23:11 PM
Next guitar hero, has some major changes for the series.
Setlist:
3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite" A Perfect Circle - "Judith" AFI - "Medicate" Arctic Monkeys - "Brianstorm" Attack! Attack! UK - "You and Me" Band Of Horses - "Cigarettes, Wedding Bands" Beastie Boys - "Gratitude" Beck - "Gamma Ray" Billy Idol - "Dancing with Myself" Billy Squier - "Lonely is the Night" Blink-182 - "The Rock Show" Blur - "Song 2" Bob Dylan - "All Along the Watchtower" Bon Jovi - "You Give Love A Bad Name" Brand New - "Sowing Season" Bush - "Comedown" Children Of Bodom - "Done With Everything, Die For Nothing" Coldplay - "In My Place" Darker My Love - "Blue Day" Darkest Hour - "Demon(s)" David Bowie - "Fame" Deep Purple - "Woman From Tokyo ('99 Remix)" Dire Straits - "Sultans of Swing" Duran Duran - "Hungry Like The Wolf" Eagles Of Death Metal - "Wannabe in L.A." Elliott Smith - "L.A." Elton John - "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" Face To Face - "Disconnected" Garbage - "Only Happy When It Rains" Gorillaz - "Feel Good Inc." Gov't Mule - "Streamline Woman" Grand Funk Railroad - "We're an American Band" Iggy Pop - "Lust For Life" Iron Maiden - "2 Minutes to Midnight" Jeff Beck - "Scatterbrain" Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American" John Mellencamp - "Hurts So Good" Johnny Cash - "Ring of Fire" Kaiser Chiefs - "Never Miss a Beat" King Crimson - "21st Century Schizoid Man" Kings Of Leon - "Sex on Fire" Kiss - "Shout it Out Loud" Love and Rockets - "Mirror People" Megadeth - "Sweating Bullets" Mötley Crüe - "Looks That Kill" Muse - "Plug in Baby" My Morning Jacket - "One Big Holiday" Nirvana - "Lithium" Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" No Doubt - "Ex-Girlfriend" Peter Frampton - "Do You Feel Like We Do (Live)" Public Enemy Featuring Zakk Wylde - "Bring the Noise 20xx" Queen & David Bowie - "Under Pressure" Queens Of The Stone Age - "Make it With Chu" Rammstein - "Du Hast" Rose Hill Drive - "Sneak Out" Rush - "The Spirit of Radio (Live, 2008)" Santana - "No One To Depend On (Live)" Scars On Broadway - "They Say" Screaming Trees - "Nearly Lost You" Smashing Pumpkins - "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" Sonic Youth - "Incinerate" Spacehog - "In the Meantime" Stevie Wonder - "Superstition" Sublime - "What I Got" Sunny Day Real Estate - "Seven" T. Rex - "20th Century Boy" The Bronx - "Six Days a Week" The Derek Trucks Band - "Younk Funk" The Duke Spirit - "Send a Little Love Token" The Killers - "All the Pretty Faces" The Police - "So Lonely" The Raconteurs - "Steady As She Goes" The Rolling Stones - "Sympathy for the Devil" The Sword - "Maiden, Mother & Crone" The White Stripes - "Blue Orchid" Thin Lizzy - "Jailbreak" Thrice - "Deadbolt" Tom Petty - "Runnin' Down a Dream" Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "American Girl" TV On The Radio - "Wolf Like Me" Vampire Weekend - "A-Punk" Weezer - "Why Bother?" Wild Cherry - "Play That Funky Music" Wolfmother - "Back Round"
Featured Artist: Johnny Cash Shirley Manson (Garbage) Matt Bellamy (Muse) Carlos Santana
Rumored: Kurt Cobain
Exporting:
GHWT and GHSH will export to GH5 for the 360, PS3 AND the Wii. So far the word "Some" has been used for the number of songs that will export early on, but Neversoft staff members said the exporting process will be an on-going one.
Day One WT Exports: "Activision WILL be adding more songs to this list, as they said, it is an ongoing process."
About a girl - Nirvana Are you gonna go my way - Lenny Kravitz Band on the Run - Wings Dammit - Blink 182 Demolition Man - Sting Do it Again - Steely Dan Everlong - Foo Fighters (handy for a chord based bonus challenge for ESP sponsor gig!) Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar Hollywood nights - Bob Seger and the silver bullet band The Joker - The Steve Miller Band The Kill - 30 Seconds to Mars L'Via L'Viaquez - The Mars Volta Lazy Eye - Silversun Pickups Livin' on a Prayer - Bon Jovi Love Spreads -The Stone Roses The Middle - Jimmy Eat World Never Too Late - The Answer No Sleep Til Brooklyn - Beastie Boys Obstacle 1 - Interpol One Armed Scissor - At the Drive-In One Way or Another - Blondie Our Truth - Lacuna Coil Overkill - Motorhead Re-Education Through Labor - Rise Against Santeria - Sublime Shiver - Coldplay Soul Doubt - Nofx Spiderwebs - No Doubt Stillborn - Black Label Society Stranglehold - Ted Nugent Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd Today - Smashing Pumpkins Toy Boy - Stuck in the sound Up around the Bend - Creedence You're gonna say yeah - Hushpuppies
DLC:
All World Tour DLC will work save for 6 songs. Everyone is thinking it will be the 6 Hendrix songs because his character model is required to play his songs.
Confirmed DLC: Rolling Stones Live Track Pack: "Prodigal Son" "You Gotta Move" "Under My Thumb" "I'm Free" "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
Free Guitar Hero: Van Halen copy?!
Pre-ordering GH5 or buying a specially marked copy of it during September will get a copy of Guitar Hero: Van Halen for free and months earlier than it December release. Sadly, this offer is only good in the United States.
Upgrades on Wii: -Exporting as mentioned before -32 gig SDHC card support -Track Packs and Album downloads now available -8 wiis can connect online -RB instruments compatibility pretty much confirmed -EVERYTHING the PS3/360 version has -Roadie Battle with the DS (more on this later).
more to come.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: BwrJim! on August 13, 2009, 02:33:41 PM
This is the first title to really focus on the wii version from all the impressions I have read. I have III and Metallica.. and I am not sure why people are so fired up about the Wii version? What makes it superior to the others and while it is great with all the wii love, is there really that big a difference to the end consumer?
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: EasyCure on August 13, 2009, 02:43:03 PM
The track exporting, plus the chance to get a FREE copy of GH:VH made this new sequel much more appealing to me...
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: UltimatePartyBear on August 13, 2009, 03:36:41 PM
Some of this sounds too good to be true. We need official word from Vicarious Visions that they'll have these features working in the Wii version.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: Spinnzilla on August 13, 2009, 04:10:03 PM
Some of this sounds too good to be true. We need official word from Vicarious Visions that they'll have these features working in the Wii version.
New DLC/SDHC info straight from VV: http://wii.ign.com/articles/101/1013118p1.html
New Online features and DS conductivity: http://wii.ign.com/articles/100/1009916p1.html
About Importing: http://wii.ign.com/articles/101/1012208p1.html and http://wii.ign.com/articles/101/1012485p1.html
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: UltimatePartyBear on August 13, 2009, 04:33:12 PM
Well. Freakin' awesome.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: Ian Sane on August 13, 2009, 06:40:51 PM
I have this strange feeling that the free GH: Van Halen means you have to pre-order the whole she-bang with all the instrument controllers I would have no need for. That's the version they always push. They would likely not be so generous to give away an ENTIRE GAME with just a disc-only copy of GH5. And if it is America only with no option in Canada well that would be useless to me anyway.
Importing tracks is of no concern for me. Swapping discs isn't some huge chore so I don't care. Having the option is nice but if they didn't have it I wouldn't even notice.
I look though the list of songs and I see some great tracks I want to have. But I also see tons of **** that I NEVER would want to play in a million years. My friends and I found World Tour to be somewhat frustrating because in the story mode we would sometimes have to go through up to three tracks in a row of what we considered to be pure garbage. You start making deals with your friends so you get to sing the song you really want in exchange for singing Korn.
What I want is complete control over what songs I get. Instead of a fixed setlist the game should come with 85 credits to use in the track store. And then there are no sequels unless they add a new instrument or something and all songs are available to buy for all versions of the game (it just disables any new features that don't apply). This is what I want and this is what I'll buy. I'll only make an exception if I find a cheap used copy of the game. Or since I already have one game if they made ALL the songs on this one downloadable then that would be okay too.
You know what this is? It's the same **** as with the music industry where they clinged to CDs and were dragged kicking and screaming into providing retail song downloads. Only imagine instead of CDs by artist you could only buy boxed sets of various artists.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: Spinnzilla on August 13, 2009, 08:36:31 PM
I have this strange feeling that the free GH: Van Halen means you have to pre-order the whole she-bang with all the instrument controllers I would have no need for. That's the version they always push. They would likely not be so generous to give away an ENTIRE GAME with just a disc-only copy of GH5. And if it is America only with no option in Canada well that would be useless to me anyway.
Nope, just the standard disc only game will do for the free copy of GHVH.
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I look though the list of songs and I see some great tracks I want to have. But I also see tons of **** that I NEVER would want to play in a million years. My friends and I found World Tour to be somewhat frustrating because in the story mode we would sometimes have to go through up to three tracks in a row of what we considered to be pure garbage. You start making deals with your friends so you get to sing the song you really want in exchange for singing Korn.
This has changed since GH: Metallica. You can freely choose which songs from each set you want to play first. Also, you're no longer forced to play all of the songs. Opening up a new gig depends on the number of stars you have earned, not songs played.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: BwrJim! on August 13, 2009, 09:15:55 PM
besides me, who else has metallica?
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: Spinnzilla on August 13, 2009, 09:19:37 PM
I own Metallica. Which I want to export as well.
Also, GH5 has done away friend codes, it uses your wii console number instead.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: nickmitch on August 13, 2009, 10:02:55 PM
Also, GH5 has done away friend codes, it uses your wii console number instead.
BEST. NEWS. EVER.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 13, 2009, 10:19:33 PM
The Conduit can do that too. The tracklist for GH5 is garbage - but all the new-to-Wii-goodness that they're including is great. It seems they decided to just pick a track off of Pinkerton for the sake of...picking a track off of Pinkerton, and chose easily the worst song (Why Bother?). Not that it's a terrible song, but it's the worst song on the album.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: TJ Spyke on August 13, 2009, 10:23:31 PM
I was only semi-interested in the 2 games (because I am only interested in some songs on each), but if I can get both Guitar Hero 5 and Guitar Hero: Van Halen for the price of 1 I might get them.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: Spinnzilla on August 13, 2009, 10:48:29 PM
2 Minutes To Midnight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtjHlCC6yBA
Done With Everything, Die For Nothing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFFkwHVFeqk
The models and lighting look great, several steps above the ugliness that was GH3/GHWT. But dammit, those "dead eyes" the characters have really throw things off.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: EasyCure on August 14, 2009, 09:47:19 AM
I was only semi-interested in the 2 games (because I am only interested in some songs on each), but if I can get both Guitar Hero 5 and Guitar Hero: Van Halen for the price of 1 I might get them.
Exactly. That'd be good enough for me but all the extra bells and whistles really makes the purchase worth it in my opinion.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: Dirk Temporo on August 14, 2009, 07:47:35 PM
Really? I think it's the best on disc-setlist we've had in a music game to date. It's a music lover's dream IMO.
The Beatles: Rock Band....
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on August 14, 2009, 10:10:27 PM
As much as I want to support awesome effort from VV, Rock Band 2 pretty much seals the deal as the only band based music game I ever need with an exception of The Beatles: Rock Band.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 14, 2009, 11:57:34 PM
I'm a music lover, and I think the tracklist sucks. Rockband 1 and 2 were much better. Honestly I think it's more of a tracklist meant to appeal to people who pretend like they like a lot of different types of music - I'm not accusing anyone who likes the listed songs of being that type of person, I just think that's who they are going after. It's the German version of "Du Hast", which is awesome, mainly because you have to speak German, and also because it actually means "You Have", and not "You Hate" like the English version was changed to. There are a few standout tracks, but really it's mostly pure crap that won't be fun to play with other people.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: Morari on August 15, 2009, 10:49:12 AM
It's the German version of "Du Hast", which is awesome, mainly because you have to speak German, and also because it actually means "You Have", and not "You Hate" like the English version was changed to.
While that is true, I've always felt that Du Hust was one of Rammstein's worst songs. It's downright boring to listen to.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: EasyCure on August 15, 2009, 12:49:15 PM
Beck - "Gamma Ray" Billy Idol - "Dancing with Myself" Gorillaz - "Feel Good Inc." King Crimson - "21st Century Schizoid Man" Queen & David Bowie - "Under Pressure"
Wow, they actually bothered to get music worth listening to outside of a rhythm game!
I'm a music lover, and I think the tracklist sucks. Rockband 1 and 2 were much better. Honestly I think it's more of a tracklist meant to appeal to people who pretend like they like a lot of different types of music
I'm a music lover, and i think the tracklist sucks, but then again so did Rock Band 2's. Only reason i bought it was because Circuit City was liquidating assets and I was able to get it for dirt cheap.
:)
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 15, 2009, 04:47:20 PM
Du Hast is a terrible song, don't get me wrong. I just think it's awesome that it's the German version. Most of Rammstein's songs are pretty basic, if I had to choose one for the game, I'd choose Feuer Frei. XXX was a terrible movie, but the Rammstein concert intro was pretty badass.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: Morari on August 15, 2009, 11:06:03 PM
Feuer Frei would probably be one of the more obvious choices. I was always quite fond of Du Riechst So Gut myself.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: kraken613 on August 16, 2009, 10:51:44 AM
I do want to play Under Pressure, but I don't want to play it on the crappy charting of GH.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: vudu on August 16, 2009, 11:11:04 AM
Wollt Ihr Das Bett In Flammen Sehen is the best Rammstein song, hands down.
Although, I'd settle for anything off of Herzeleid.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on August 16, 2009, 11:35:18 AM
When I saw the soundtrack for Brutal Legend, I thought to myself no wonder why Activision was trying to block that game since Brutal Legend's soundtrack is leagues better than GH5's soundtrack. :P
If you want to look at the 108 song soundtrack. (http://kotaku.com/5333045/ea-denmark-drops-brutal-legends-complete-soundtrack)
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: EasyCure on August 17, 2009, 11:56:17 AM
I do want to play Under Pressure, but I don't want to play it on the crappy charting of GH.
It's funny cuz i still don't think theres a problem with GH's note charts. My beef is with everyones precious RB note charts because they're a little TOO simple for my taste dammit. I can play some of these songs on an actual guitar so when i know i should be strumming a chord and instead strumming a single note, it just irritates me. There's other things too, like how even on expert when a chord does show up its rarely ever a proper 3 note power chord and instead just 2.
Guess i'm just nitpicking though becuase i'm used to the real thing and these plastic instruments will never be as intricate.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: that Baby guy on August 17, 2009, 08:12:23 PM
I have to agree with EasyCure on this one. It's a game, for one, it's not going to be like the real thing... But Rock Band's timing seems off to me (not talking about calibration issues, either), and the charts seem bland, like Harmonix wanted to make them as easy as possible for whatever difficulty level the song is on.
Yeah, GH will have the lead guitar playing parts from the rhythm, and yeah, sometimes you'll be playing an extra note to try to capture the feel of a sound effect, rather than be accurate, but that's more fun, in most cases, to me.
Hence, I stick with GH.
Though apparently, through hacking, it's possible to export RB, GH3, GH2, GH1, GH Aerosmith, and GH Rock the 80's songs onto Rock Band 2... I'm considering trying that and picking up RB 2, but that would really depend on if the export somehow included at least the drum part. Of course, then I'd be conflicted because I was planning on selling my RB gear, and apparently, it's tough to play RB 2 on the GH drums.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 17, 2009, 10:18:55 PM
You can't add the drum tracks from GH1, GH2, GH3, Aerosmith, or the 80s - technically you could add the charts and play along, only the guitar and bass are isolated in those games. You should ditch the GH drums and get the Rock Band 2 drums with the cymbals. Sure you lose a note in GHWT, etc, but you can use the pads as toms and the cymbals as cymbals during fills and freestyle mode (does this exist on the Wii version?) on Rock Band 2, giving you 8 unique sounds.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: Dirk Temporo on August 18, 2009, 04:19:17 AM
Sonne is my favorite Rammstein song, but that may be because the first time I heard it, it was accompanied by this sweet music video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMYJAlDn9bo
(If you watch, use HQ)
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: EasyCure on August 18, 2009, 01:44:08 PM
I have to agree with EasyCure on this one. It's a game, for one, it's not going to be like the real thing... But Rock Band's timing seems off to me (not talking about calibration issues, either), and the charts seem bland, like Harmonix wanted to make them as easy as possible for whatever difficulty level the song is on.
Yeah, GH will have the lead guitar playing parts from the rhythm, and yeah, sometimes you'll be playing an extra note to try to capture the feel of a sound effect, rather than be accurate, but that's more fun, in most cases, to me.
That's the other thing actually, I don't mind that because to me its actually MORE realistic, because its what I'm used to. Though i've been in a few simple bands before, most of the time I play guitar I'm playing by myself so when i play along with a song I switch from rythm to lead accordingly and when I have to I'll play keyboard parts on my guitar (if there's no guitar part at the time, obviously).
Thats why when this argument came up about having to play the keyboard part for The Killer's "When You Were Young" in GH3, I just ignored it. If I was at home playing along to the song, i'd play those keyboard parts on my real guitar.. so whats the big deal?
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5.
Post by: Spinnzilla on August 18, 2009, 02:08:36 PM
Rolling Stones DLC confirmed: (http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll138/Dvdsmith2002/gh5preorderjpg.jpg) (http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll138/Dvdsmith2002/gh5preorder2jpg.jpg?t=1250601965)
unfortunately, this free deal is only available in the UK (and the rest of Europe?) and for the Xbox 360 and PS3. The two songs are "Prodigal Son" and "You Gotta Move".
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5. (Rolling Stones DLC confirmed)
Post by: Spinnzilla on August 25, 2009, 02:43:56 PM
Day one exports:
"Activision WILL be adding more songs to this list, as they said, it is an ongoing process."
About a girl - Nirvana Are you gonna go my way - Lenny Kravitz Band on the Run - Wings Dammit - Blink 182 Demolition Man - Sting Do it Again - Steely Dan Everlong - Foo Fighters (handy for a chord based bonus challenge for ESP sponsor gig!) Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar Hollywood nights - Bob Seger and the silver bullet band The Joker - The Steve Miller Band The Kill - 30 Seconds to Mars L'Via L'Viaquez - The Mars Volta Lazy Eye - Silversun Pickups Livin' on a Prayer - Bon Jovi Love Spreads -The Stone Roses The Middle - Jimmy Eat World Never Too Late - The Answer No Sleep Til Brooklyn - Beastie Boys Obstacle 1 - Interpol One Armed Scissor - At the Drive-In One Way or Another - Blondie Our Truth - Lacuna Coil Overkill - Motorhead Re-Education Through Labor - Rise Against Santeria - Sublime Shiver - Coldplay Soul Doubt - Nofx Spiderwebs - No Doubt Stillborn - Black Label Society Stranglehold - Ted Nugent Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd Today - Smashing Pumpkins Toy Boy - Stuck in the sound Up around the Bend - Creedence You're gonna say yeah - Hushpuppies
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5. (First batch of WT exports announced)
Post by: EasyCure on August 26, 2009, 12:24:15 PM
Good to know, a lot of my favorite tracks are on that Day 1 list! Question though.. Dumb question though.. How does the exporting work on Wii? I'm assuming it just moves everything to an SD card, I just want the confirmation so i can clear out my SD card or possibly just get a new one now.
Title: I'm a total sucker
Post by: EasyCure on October 01, 2009, 02:20:12 PM
So i bought GH5 two days ago just to get the free GH:Van Halen they were offering, even though I only know a handful of van halen songs and my interest in any sort of rhythm game has dwindeled ever since i purchased Rune Factory Frontier.
I haven't even popped the disc in, the only reason I opened the game was to get the code on the back of the manual neccesary for the free game redemtion. I'll give it a shot this weekend and give impressions... but how different can it be?
Has anyone else purchased GH5 at all?
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5. (First batch of WT exports announced)
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on October 01, 2009, 02:23:34 PM
I don't want to buy a $60 game to move the downloaded songs I got for World Tour from an SD card to my main SDHC card.
Dammit, Activision.
D=
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5. (First batch of WT exports announced)
Post by: bustin98 on October 01, 2009, 02:55:38 PM
I bought GH5 from Toys R Us a few days ago, you got World Tour with it for free. 3 games and two guitars for $100, sure why not. Need to get a good memory card now.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5. (First batch of WT exports announced)
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on October 01, 2009, 03:33:24 PM
Does that mean you're going to trade-in World Tour after you download the entire track set on your memcard via GT5?
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5. (First batch of WT exports announced)
Post by: bustin98 on October 01, 2009, 04:29:22 PM
Seeing how there are some songs that aren't transferable, probably not. The game is about worthless as a trade-in anyway, isn't it? No clue really.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5. (First batch of WT exports announced)
Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 01, 2009, 04:44:00 PM
Not some songs - *most* songs do not transfer. It's pathetic, really.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5. (First batch of WT exports announced)
Post by: Stratos on October 18, 2009, 05:14:57 AM
So why is the Wii version of GH5 $60? I don't like paying that much for my games. Is it due to the extra licensing needed to import the songs from the previous games?
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5. (First batch of WT exports announced)
Post by: NWR_insanolord on October 18, 2009, 11:20:49 AM
So why is the Wii version of GH5 $60? I don't like paying that much for my games. Is it due to the extra licensing needed to import the songs from the previous games?
I doubt it, because if it's anything like the 360 version that costs extra.
Title: Re: Guitar Hero 5. (First batch of WT exports announced)
Post by: EasyCure on October 18, 2009, 12:19:46 PM
So why is the Wii version of GH5 $60? I don't like paying that much for my games. Is it due to the extra licensing needed to import the songs from the previous games?
No idea but i'm almost positive I only paid the usual $49.99 + tax here. Too bad i don't have my reciept to confirm since i had to ship it off to activision in order to get the free copy of GH:VH haha
I've been meaning to write a mini review of this game but haven't gotten around to it. I haven't tried the new "party play" mode which seems to be the big feature they're touting, but so what? It's like playing quickplay and then having someone join me mid-song. If it works, it works, big whoop.
I also haven't been able to transfer any songs from GH:WT into GH5 because my gf has my memory card at the moment, so thats another key feature i can't talk about.
What I can say is that the set-list is VERY diverse, whether thats a good or bad thing all depends on your taste in music as well as how open you are to trying out different music you might not be in to. The graphics didn't seem to be upgraded much over WT (on wii anyway) BUT... The unlockable Artists like Santana, Cash and Cobain all have amazing character models. Perhaps its just the fact that they're more realistic looking, proportionaly wise, vs the standard GH MEGA-JAW ugo's. It's been awhile since i've played WT but I really do feel that GH5's secret characters look much MUCH better, i'm talking uncanny-alley stuff.
One of my favorite new features (single player feature) is how when playing the career mode and selecting your next track, with the press of a button you can switch from guitar to bass or back instantly. This helps with the new challanges present for each song, which is another neat little feature. Like Rock Band 2, you'll have chances to win sponsorhips to unlock new gear, but things play a little differently in this game. Each song has a unique goal, so it does add some replayability for the completionist type like myself.
some of the challenges are as simple as scoring over a certain amount of points, but you also have ones that ask you to hit a certain note-streak, or even hit as many bass notes as you can with an up-stroke. Because challenges are presented before you accept the song, this is where the guitar/bass switch comes handy. oh, and of course there are challenges for drums and vocals too.
The other nice feature is how you can play with any combination of instruments. Nothing major, just a nice feature to haves to have so there's no more arguing over who has to be stuck playing bass (although there are some really good songs on the set list with fun basslines, and the "open note" makes its return in this game too).
Going back to the unlockable characters.. there's another neat feature here, in which you don't just unlock one of the announced artist, but an artist "pack". For instance, playing through the career mode I worked my way up to whichever venue has Ring of Fire in it. To my surprise, instead of my custom character taking stage, I was playing as a Tenessee Three look alike aka Cash's back-up band! The same went for Shirley Manson, Santana, that dude from Muse, and yes even Nirvana.
