Guitar Hero: World Tour

Ah, Guitar Hero: World Tour. The most fun I've had playing a rythym game in a long time. Needless to say, I love this game however it does have many negative points to it. I'm not going to go on about how good the music and/or graphics are or aren't (the prior is down to personal taste, and the latter doesn't make a difference in this type of game), but what I am going to do is praise that which is good (and there's lots of it) and berate that which is bad (a lot of this exists as well).

Might as well get the bad things out of the way first. I'll sum up my biggest quarm with this game in four words: Neversoft can't chart correctly. Don't get me wrong, the charts are all good and fairly accurate... until you start playing Lead Guitar on Expert difficulty. If you are not a fan of chords don't even contemplate it. Every song on the game (all 84 of them) is a massive chord fest for either 2-3 sections, over half the chart, almost all the chart - and in this case the ones that...

As a music lover, it is to be expected that I drool my own juice when you stick a guitar, drumstick or microphone in my hand, so naturally after hearing that my brother bought guitar hero out of the blue I decided to change my underwear, albeit only after I had played for a while so the brief euphoria could end. Instead, I promptly found my underwear cleaning itself as an apology for being a bit too optimistic.

Let us not kid ourselves, the most important thing about a rhythm game is the music. You could have the most intuitive system in the history of awesome, but if you have tracks like Barbie Girl by Aqua or Chico Time by that Celeb Air knobber and the system immediately becomes redundant, because however it plays, the songs mean you're gonna have an awesome time regardless. Instead of the aforementioned classics, we're stuck with the likes of Modest Mouse (they aren't being modest, they actually are as lame as they think) and the world's dreariest drum song, Some...