Rock Band vs Guitar Hero

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Rock band is more fun to play with other people, as they offer Lead Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drums, and Voice as options, but it's more expensive

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So, if my goal is to get something that I can enjoy with the entire family then Rock Band is what I should purchase?

its really all the same in my book. either way you will have fun

I personally prefer rock band to guitar hero. The reason that I think RB is better is because they are consistently coming out with new tracks to download to make the game new.

If you buy RB2, you can buy a key for 6 bucks to be able to import all but 3 of the songs from RB1 into RB2. Rent RB1 and you have all of the songs from RB1 in RB2 for about $14.

RB is coming out with a Beatles game, if that is your thing.

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is the guitar, drums, and mic wireless for either of these games?

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RB1 - wireless guitar, wired mic and drums

RB2 - wired mic, wireless guitar and i think wireless drums

GH:WT - wired mic, wireless guitar and drums

and supposedly all the instruments are compatible with each other

I would go with Rockband for the family. Rockband is challenging but fun at the same time, GH they try to make it so hard that it takes the fun out of the game at the higher levels.

I personally like the Rockband music better.

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Rock band is more fun to play with other people, as they offer Lead Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drums, and Voice as options, but it's more expensive. Guitar Hero has more versions (Beatles, Aerosmith, etc.)

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Could you be any more uninformed? You give posters everywhere with less than a 500 post count a bad name.


I prefer Guitar Hero. Mainly because I started playing it first. Guitar Hero 3 was hard as hell, but World Tour brought it back to a fun level yet still challenging on expert. Same with GH Mettalica. I am not a huge Mettallica fan, but that game kicks arse.

Rock Band has a much, much more extensive downloadable library ( Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero). In my opinion, the Rock Band library as a whole absolutely blows away the Guitar Hero library. If you plan on buying much DLC I think it is a no brainer to go with Rock Band.

I also believe that the vocals engine in GHWT is atrociously bad. If you will every be playing with 4 people and sticking someone on the microphone, Rock Band is strictly better.

I own both. Rock Band 2 almost never leaves my Xbox and GHWT almost never leaves its case.

I recommend buying a USB hub and a couple of Xplorer guitars for cheap. The Xplorer is the best plastic guitar ever by a fairly large margin and it also happens to be very cheap. If you get a microphone, a USB logitech microphone is probably the best option if you don't buy a bundle package.

I don't have alot of experience with the different drum kits. For sure the RB2 kit is much better than the RB1 kit.

I would recommend in general:

1. Buy the RB2 package deal (I think it has been on sale recently).
2. Buy an Xplorer guitar
3. Buy a USB hub if necessary (shouldn't be assuming you own a wireless controller for your xbox).
4. Go crazy on the DLC

Huh?

Rock Band definitely has hammer-on pull-offs. I'm not sure what you mean at all by that. The timing window on them is smaller but that is a good thing in my opinion because you can't just flail your hands all over the fretboard and get through songs ala GH3.

I also have no idea what you mean by fast parts being impossible to play.

Also Beatles=fail?

The DLC content method is more expensive if you aren't picky but if you pick and choose you can end up with a larger percentage of songs you really enjoy playing while paying much less.

for overall family fun go with rock band. guitar hero may be a better game from a game play perspective, but rock band is probably easier and it has where you can save you a band member struggling during a song. guitar hero does not have that.