Wannabe Gamer

During a recent Activision Blizzard’s press conference in Los Angelos, Neversoft director Brian Bright surprised many by announcing that non-RedOctane instruments could be used with Guitar Hero World Tour. This is great news for gamers who own RockBand and its’ instruments.

First off, Brian Bright said Guitar Hero World Tour support instruments from rival Rock Band, but Neversoft had programmed the game to recognize and adjust for them. What does this mean exactly? Well Brian covered that too when he said, “We use a five channel input, and we’ve engineered the game to sense when you plug in a Rock Band drum set and switch to a four-channel input,” he said, referring to the descending note scheme used in the game. “The orange cymbal input in Guitar Hero [World Tour] automatically becomes the green fill or the blue pad on the Rock Band drum set, depending on what works best with the song. You don’t even have to think about it.”

The developer also said that his comments are only applied to the Xbox 360 version of the game and that he is not allowed to talk about the compatibility with the PS3. Bright also said that Rockbands instruments will work for RockBand but he is not sure if they will work for RockBand 2.