Guitar Hero World Tour for Wii Reviews by Gamers

I love Guitar Hero... There's few games that can make you feel truly immersed like this series does, instantly transforming you from "dork in a living room" to "superstar arena rock god"... despite the fact that you're only holding a cheap plastic guitar thingy and still look like a complete dork to any nearby observers. That's gotta be the definition of immersed!

GH: World Tour moves their now familiar gamer-becomes-rockstar bar higher by adding player controlled drums and vocals to the mix (in an obvious effort to stay competitive against Rock Band), and does so swimmingly for a game that boasts only "Guitar" in the title.

The vocals seem to be programmed very well, allowing for some slight imperfections on the lower difficulties and enforcing perfection at expert level. Lyrics can scroll or just be static at the top of the screen, both work well but be advised that the font is small, if you're using a TV under 32" you'll have some trouble reading the lyrics you don't already know. As a nice touch, any USB mic can be used on the Wii, no GH specific device is needed.

Drums are acceptable, but if you're not a drummer they're quite difficult when you progress past beginner. You can't use your Rock Band drums on GH:WT, but these drums will work with RB... go figure. There’s also a MIDI jack on the back of the drum kit allowing you real drummers to play GH:WT with a real electronic drum kit. Nice!

Guitars are still the same- awesome. Surprise!

Overall I'd rank this a solid 7, there's ton's of songs spanning a multitude of genres, the animations are good (WAY better than Wii GH:Aerosmith, that was worse than those animatronic singing bears at Dollywood... Heck, the Tool set is magnificent to watch even if you don't like any of the songs). The difficulties seem about right, and beginner mode allows anyone who can bang the strum bar in time (it doesn't matter what fret you hit) to play- Grandparents are in! Nice addition to the series.

Rent it and ROCK!