Guitar Hero World Tour marks the fourth entry in a series that until now has been Strictly Guitars, allowing at most two players to cooperatively tackle guitar and bass parts or square off in head-cutting duels. Now imagine three or four buckets pinioned to a stand and that air guitar reified in plastic homage to Les Paul with a few colorful buttons poking out of the neck to trigger notes as they pop up on a TV screen and you’re in the concert hall vicinity of what this whole faux rocker craze is all about. Think back to when you were a kid and shameless, ready to bop and disco while your favorite song boogied in the background, plucking invisible strings on ethereal air guitars or upending empty ice cream buckets to slap along with the beat. In case you’ve yet to rock out with a plastic piece and you’re wondering what’s up with this “music video game” thing, a word about Guitar Hero.
I’m talking about Activision Blizzard’s Guitar Hero World Tour, of course, aka Take That, Rock Band !, an Extreme Instrumental Makeover for the series that launched a thousand armchair shedders, and it’ll be available day one for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, and Nintendo Wii owners anywhere. It packs in a sleek new wireless six-piece drum set with fan-like cymbals, a slap-strum pad on its 25 percent larger sunburst guitar, a stunning 86 master recording track list, and absolutely nobody, I repeat nobody, dies in this game.
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