Kardan
28-03-2009, 10:20 PM
Well, I tried the demo for Guitar Hero: Metallica today, and decided it was awful - a lot like Guitar Hero World Tour, and as usual, my friend decided to disagree :)
He reckons that the Guitar Hero series is much better than the Rock Band series; where as I think the opposite, so I was wondering what everyone else thinks a few months later...
Personally, the Rock Band Series is much, much better. First off is the User Interface on the actual screen when playing through songs. Rock Band uses one life meter for all four players along one edge of the screen which is quite easy to see and follow, a quick glance and you can see how everyone is doing and the band as a whole.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i93/Kardan-habbo/rbstarpower.png
Guitar Hero on the other hand each player has their own separate life meter, which is pretty handy for yourself. But whilst playing as a band, and you need to know whether or not to activate star power to save your band mates - you have to look all over the screen for 4 separate life meters and then a 5th one for the whole band overall. Very time consuming and makes you a lot more likely to break your note streak whilst you look over the screen.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i93/Kardan-habbo/ghlife.png
Another thing about the interface is the star power meter. For Rock Band, each player has their own meter and gains it independently and can be activated independently. Its location right under the player's chart also means it can be viewed quickly and easily.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i93/Kardan-habbo/rbstarpower.png
On Guitar Hero however, all your star power goes into one overall meter, meaning if you get the star power, another player can easily activate it for them and you miss out. It also means that if you're a drummer and someone steals the star power just before you activate, the game will take it that you hit the wrong drums - therefore breaking your streak, when instead, you wanted to activate star power. The Guitar Hero system is a lot more complicated, plus you have to look in the top left corner to see how much star power there is - and even then it doesn't tell you if there's enough to activate - unlike Rock Band which makes the glow bar when enough star power has been accumulated.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i93/Kardan-habbo/ghstarpower.png
Then of course, there's the songs. Personally I found that GH:WT didn't have a wide selection of songs, and most were rather boring and long to play on Expert Guitar. Plus with the Guitar Hero series you can't transfer your songs from game to game. Rock Band allows you to do this, and has much more downloadable content than Guitar Hero meaning Rock Band currently has a library of 600 songs.
Of course, Guitar Hero does have its advantages - the drum controller is said to better than Rock Band's, and I'm rather eager to see this for myself, but there's been reported problems with the cymbals... Then there's the custom track creation menu in GH:WT. Personally I find this really overcomplicated, and the majority of sons just sound like the crap ringtones you get, but there are some good songs out there, sadly let down by the lack of vocals.
Overall, I'm pretty sad for going into so much detail, right?
http://www.videogamesblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/rock-band-2-screenshot.jpg
http://www.scorehero.com/ImaCarrot/GHMImages/X360/Guitar%20Hero%20Metallica%20-%20%27Fight%20Fire%20with%20Fire%27.jpg
He reckons that the Guitar Hero series is much better than the Rock Band series; where as I think the opposite, so I was wondering what everyone else thinks a few months later...
Personally, the Rock Band Series is much, much better. First off is the User Interface on the actual screen when playing through songs. Rock Band uses one life meter for all four players along one edge of the screen which is quite easy to see and follow, a quick glance and you can see how everyone is doing and the band as a whole.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i93/Kardan-habbo/rbstarpower.png
Guitar Hero on the other hand each player has their own separate life meter, which is pretty handy for yourself. But whilst playing as a band, and you need to know whether or not to activate star power to save your band mates - you have to look all over the screen for 4 separate life meters and then a 5th one for the whole band overall. Very time consuming and makes you a lot more likely to break your note streak whilst you look over the screen.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i93/Kardan-habbo/ghlife.png
Another thing about the interface is the star power meter. For Rock Band, each player has their own meter and gains it independently and can be activated independently. Its location right under the player's chart also means it can be viewed quickly and easily.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i93/Kardan-habbo/rbstarpower.png
On Guitar Hero however, all your star power goes into one overall meter, meaning if you get the star power, another player can easily activate it for them and you miss out. It also means that if you're a drummer and someone steals the star power just before you activate, the game will take it that you hit the wrong drums - therefore breaking your streak, when instead, you wanted to activate star power. The Guitar Hero system is a lot more complicated, plus you have to look in the top left corner to see how much star power there is - and even then it doesn't tell you if there's enough to activate - unlike Rock Band which makes the glow bar when enough star power has been accumulated.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i93/Kardan-habbo/ghstarpower.png
Then of course, there's the songs. Personally I found that GH:WT didn't have a wide selection of songs, and most were rather boring and long to play on Expert Guitar. Plus with the Guitar Hero series you can't transfer your songs from game to game. Rock Band allows you to do this, and has much more downloadable content than Guitar Hero meaning Rock Band currently has a library of 600 songs.
Of course, Guitar Hero does have its advantages - the drum controller is said to better than Rock Band's, and I'm rather eager to see this for myself, but there's been reported problems with the cymbals... Then there's the custom track creation menu in GH:WT. Personally I find this really overcomplicated, and the majority of sons just sound like the crap ringtones you get, but there are some good songs out there, sadly let down by the lack of vocals.
Overall, I'm pretty sad for going into so much detail, right?
http://www.videogamesblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/rock-band-2-screenshot.jpg
http://www.scorehero.com/ImaCarrot/GHMImages/X360/Guitar%20Hero%20Metallica%20-%20%27Fight%20Fire%20with%20Fire%27.jpg