Guitar Hero IV coming this year, no one surprised

by Jem Alexander { Feb 6th 2008 at 7:00PM }

We really need some sort of "Shocker!" category for posts like this. A British band called "The Answer" have revealed that their music will be included in the next edition of the Guitar Hero franchise, which will be out before the end of the year. Watch as we remain unsurprised and, to be honest, completely indifferent to the news. Guitar Hero has largely been made irrelevant by Rock Band and we only expect things to get better for the game with the inclusion of over 200 songs coming in the next year.

No doubt Guitar Hero IV will still sell well when it's released at the end of the year, but in the meantime Rock Band will have sold many more million downloadable songs (judging from how quickly it reached the 2.5 million download mark). Activision is keeping tight-lipped about the whole thing, with no official game announcement having come yet. No doubt we'll hear about it during GDC or E3 later this year.

Tags: gh4, guitar-hero, guitar-hero-4, guitar-hero-iv

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Cory @ Feb 6th 2008 7:14PM

I'll start to get really annoyed if this becomes a yearly thing. It's not worth paying $60 for the same game every year especially since all it would be is a track update. Why cant they just go the rockband route and release some DC that way I can pick and choose my music.

XDragon @ Feb 6th 2008 7:31PM

I'm actually ok with gh4 as long as the ps3's is blue tooth and includes a very good and long track list. The rumor site posts some fantastic songs but they're not confirmed. Time will tell but I think they will learn from their gh3 mistakes and better bank on the dlc that's worked so well for rockband.

RPGJock @ Feb 6th 2008 7:58PM

I think people will end up turning to Rock Band instead of buying GH4 if there isn't any major update to the actual gameplay vs updating a song list. Honestly, they would need at least put in about 40+ songs to make it financial reasonable to purchase a new game vs download content. Oh course most people poop poop half the songs on a game.

Andy @ Feb 6th 2008 8:54PM

Most of the games have more than 40 songs, so I don't see any reason why this would be any different. The only one that doesn't is Rocks the 80's, which kinduv sucked anyway.

Rob @ Feb 6th 2008 9:13PM

Although I never really enjoyed any GH playlist as much as Rock Band's, I'd get this for one reason....

The guitars work with Rock Band! I can play expert in GH3 but hardly medium in RB because of the strum bar. Can't hit those fast notes. >.

Glen @ Feb 7th 2008 9:42AM

Why don't they put up the songs from the previous Guitar Hero games as DLC. Shouldn't be to hard to convert. Instant library for those that don't have them.

Caligula @ Feb 6th 2008 9:12PM

Rock Band is a joke. Incredibly low difficulty and poor note precision rate? Not for me. I would gladly dl songs for GH, but if I have to buy another one to get a handful of good tracks, I dont know if its worth it....

RazLeboL @ Feb 6th 2008 9:40PM

Rock Band is sooo much better than Guitar hero. You have no idea. Playing the drums and singing is awesome too.

Andy @ Feb 7th 2008 12:21AM

Rock Band is so much better, especially with large groups of people. The guitar parts are easier, I'll give you that, but that's why they've got DLC like the Metallica pack (which is quite difficult, let me tell you...)

Andy @ Feb 6th 2008 11:38PM

Well, here's a game that I'm not going to be getting. I used to be a huge fan of Guitar Hero, but I'm still boycotting Activision after the shit-fest that was Guitar Hero III (the PS3 version. 360 version seemed fine). If they ever let us have the Rock Band patch, I may consider buying things from them again, but until that day... they're saving me some money.

Simon @ Feb 7th 2008 7:36AM

Agreed.

Really dissapointed with GH3, mainly because of the lack of DLC (which was the main reason to why I got it for the PS3) and of course, the crappy online mode that worked once every blue moon.

I won't buy GH4 the day it's released, most likely I'll pick it up sometime later.. depending on reviews and the songs that are in it. And if they keep up that 'having-to-strum-in-the-middle-of-a-HO/PO" thing, not sure if it's supposed to be like that in the actual songs.. but it bugged the hell out of me because it hadn't been like that in the games that Harmonix created.
The fact that I can barely beat the last 4 songs on Hard and that I can't beat Before I Forget and that Queens of the Stone Age song on Expert, annoys me as well. I had close to no problem with Hard on GH2, but they turned up the difficulty with GH3 so much it just feels bizarre..