Guitar Hero World Tour drums compatible with drummers

by JC Fletcher { May 26th 2008 at 12:45PM }

Activision invited some celebrity drummers to ~~be seen playing~~ test the Guitar Hero World Tour drum kit, including The Police's Stewart Copeland, Blink 182's Travis Barker, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith (who looks exactly like Will Ferrell). The three talk about the more realistic layout of the new drum controller, and, of course, how awesome drumming is. Surprise! They love Guitar Hero, and they love the new drum kit. Anything to lure kids into drumming before they know how their future bandmates will regard them!

The video is suspiciously light on footage of the three playing the controller, which leads us to think that maybe they all totally busted it. Barker, who can be seen performing motion capture for the game, mentions that on the expert level the drum charts are virtually identical to the real drum sequences in the original songs, which is actually very cool!

Tags: activision, drums, guitar-hero, guitar-hero-world-tour, music, redoctane

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jared @ May 26th 2008 1:07PM

cool video, i'm excited.

Wraith_242 @ May 26th 2008 1:14PM

I have totally said that that guy looks exactly like Will Ferrell. I'm so happy to have someone agree.

nick @ May 26th 2008 1:34PM

yeah but their not compatible with the rock band drums...

John B. @ May 26th 2008 2:02PM

"Anything to lure kids into drumming before they know how their future bandmates will regard them!"

Good job, guys, because all drummers are worthless to their bands am I right? Thats so loltastic rite lul? Even better than the lulcats u guize post occasionally!

I've been drumming for a decade and I'm a percussion performance major, and I can tell you that as a musician I am in very high demand and am very valued. I'm sure your job is really hard to do, but can you try and think before you alienate an entire group of musicians based on a video game?

Spekkio @ May 26th 2008 4:54PM

It's not like it's a new meme. People have been picking on drummers since Ringo.

Serion @ May 26th 2008 4:59PM

This is going to be the greatest multiplayer game ever created in the history of anything. And from what it seems, our version is only going to slightly gimped from the other Next Gen systems instead of a stupid ass PS2 port.

Fuck you Harmonix, I'm buying GH4.