Guitar Hero World Tour (formerly known as Guitar Hero IV) is a forthcoming entry in the music video game Guitar Hero series, and will be developed by Neversoft and published by RedOctane and Activision, set to be released on October 27, 2008. The game is expected to be available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and Wii consoles.Guitar Hero World Tour will be the first game of the Guitar Hero series to feature the drum and microphone controllers, Furthermore, according to Game Informer, the game will allow users to create new songs, including drums, rhythm guitar, lead guitar and bass guitar, although the studio mode will be without vocals, because of copyrights and storage limitations. It is confirmed that players will be able to upload and share their songs. The traditional single player Career Mode has been reworked. Instead of playing through a setlist, players will encounter gigs during career mode, which offer a choice of songs to play; however, you dont have to complete every song in the list to proceed. The difficulty levels include a new difficulty called "Beginner" as well as the regular difficulty modes (Easy, Medium, Hard, and Expert), this Career Mode will allow players to drop to a lower difficulty without restarting their careers if they have difficulty with one song. The player will also be able to switch to a different instrument during the same Career without having to restart. There are five total instrument career modes within the game: lead guitar, bass guitar, drums, vocals, and online/offline full band.[6]Users will be able to use a "Create-a-Rocker" mode Players will be able to affect their character's poise, clothing, tattoos, makeup, and age. Selected characters from previous Guitar Hero games will also be available as starting templates for creating a rocker. As a result of the present lawsuit with Gibson Guitars, the player will also be able to customize their own guitar for the game to a high degree. Drum sets and microphones will also be customizable.All of the songs in the game will be master recordings, a first for the series. Neversoft claims that there will be more songs on disk than any other Guitar Hero game. IGN reports that the game will feature over 85 songs Three bands have been confirmed for the game from the Game Informer preview: Van Halen, The Eagles, and Linkin Park. IGN's preview reported that Sublime's "Santeria", Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell", and Foo Fighters' "Everlong" were featured in the game. The Game Informer preview also suggests that Dream Theater may be included. Lenny Kravitz's "Are You Gonna Go My Way" was featured in the world premiere trailer and was confirmed as a playable song in a demonstration of the game at Wall Street Journal's D6 event. Blink 182's "Dammit" was featured in a video showcasing the game's drum set featuring former Blink-182 and current +44 drummer Travis Barker doing motion capture for the game. The video also featured Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith along with The Police drummer Stewart Copeland commenting on the performance of the prototype drum set.
