Guitar Hero: World Tour on stage debut

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Guitar Hero: World Tour on stage debut

Posted May 29th 2008 11:00AM by Xav de Matos
Filed under: News, Videos

At Wall Street Journal's D6 All Things Digital event yesterday, Activision CEO Robert Kotick took the opprotunity to showoff Guitar Hero: World Tour. In the midst of introducing the upcoming game Kotick started to describe World Tour as, "the first time you'll have multiple instruments," before D6 co-host Kara Swisher quickly shot back "it's called Rock Band I think," which sent the crowd into a frenzy of laughter.

Whether Kotick meant it was the first time Guitar Hero would have the peripherals or if he was trying to pull a fast one on an audience he expected to have limited gaming knowledge is unknown. What we do know is the people playing the game for the demo, including skateboarder Tony Hawk, could not look more bored.

Come on people. You're rocking out! A little passion please.

Tags: activision, all-things-digital, guitar-hero, guitar-hero-4, guitar-hero-iv, guitar-hero-world-tour, robert-kotick, tony-hawk, wall-street-journal

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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)

5-29-2008 @ 3:44PM

Jack said...

YAY! They used the XBOX 360 version. =D

5-29-2008 @ 3:55PM

c4v3man said...

Even the XBOX 360 dashboard is more fun than this game...
http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/04/20/google-employees-rock-out-to-360-dashboard/

Just kidding...

5-29-2008 @ 4:08PM

Ian Murray said...

Wow.

Just wow.

This was possibly the most flaccid excuse for a game demonstration I've ever seen. Even if they got people who could play flawlessly, it still would look like utter copycat trash.

And there's plenty to be said for difficulty. Making a song hard for the sake of having it be hard is ignorant. Make it FEEL like you're actually playing the song, and that's where your paydirt lies.

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