Guitar Hero 4, Rockband ripoff confirmed? Options

[Crushinator]

Long story short:

• Full band set up like Rock Band, Guitar, Bass, Vocal, Drums
• Character creation/customization inspired by THPS and Tiger Woods.
• Create-a-song mode and "Freestyle" mode where you can play your own tunes to songs already in the game.
• Drum controller has 6 buttons, 3 toms, 2 cymbals, and the bass pedal.
• Activate drum Star Power by hitting both cymbals at once to begin a drum fill.
• No more licensed guitars, but you can make your own custom guitar now.
• Your custom character can freely switch between all 4 instruments
• Full bass career mode
• Nooby "strum only" Rhythm guitar mode for little kids or old people who want to join in the fun but suck.
• You can earn cash playing online (Online career mode confirmed?)
• Van Halen, The Eagles, Linkin Park, and Sublime confirmed on the songlist (and Dream Theater?)
• Going for a wider variety of music, not mainly sticking to metal like the previous GHs.
• Every song is a master track, no covers.

[Crushinator]

The drums look good, and "biggest songlist" doesn't really mean anything to me right now, because the big thing NEEDS to be longevity and DLC. Even if it ships with like 70-80 songs, those will wear thin and you want to expand on it regularly.

If they can't at least match or one-up RB's weekly updates, it still can't touch RB content wise. Also the price point is a big deal for me, if they continue to charge the same rate for their GH2 and 3 songs, its still cheaper to buy them on RB.

[AC9breaker]

The drums look good, and "biggest songlist" doesn't really mean anything to me right now, because the big thing NEEDS to be longevity and DLC. Even if it ships with like 70-80 songs, those will wear thin and you want to expand on it regularly.

If they can't at least match or one-up RB's weekly updates, it still can't touch RB content wise. Also the price point is a big deal for me, if they continue to charge the same rate for their GH2 and 3 songs, its still cheaper to buy them on RB.

The magazine said they're really gonna Man up this time on the DLC. Plus I'm assuming the Create a Track will give us plenty of goodies. I'm totally gonna try making Megaman 2 songs. Really though I think GH4 is gonna trump RB in every aspect. Because really they're taking whats already been proven to be successful, tweaking it, and going further by adding what the fans want. You should really read the article again. I had a slow day at work last night so I read it twice, haha.