Guitar Hero World Tour Launch DLC Announced
Activision today announced the launch week downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour (PS2, PS3, X360, Wii), which will be in stores October 26.
Immediately available upon release will be Metallica's Death Magnetic album and the Classic Rock Track Pack, which will include "Rock and Roll Band" by Boston, "Hot Blooded" by Foreigner and "Jessie's Girl" by Rick Springfield.
October 30 will see the release of an R.E.M. Track Pack. It will include "Horse to Water," "Man-Sized Wreath" and "Supernatural Superserious" from the band's new album Accelerate.
The R.E.M. pack will be an Xbox Live Marketplace exclusive for two weeks, before making its way to the PlayStation Store like the other DLC.
Also available during launch will be "No Rain", the 1992 hit from Blind Melon, and a free download pack that allows gamers to play Ted Nugent and Zakk Wylde's Guitar Duels outside of Career mode.
Outside of the album-only Death Magnetic DLC, tracks in the song packs can be purchased individually or in bundle form. The announcement made no mention of a Wii release for the songs, though the Wii edition of Guitar Hero World Tour has been confirmed to support DLC.
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joecop120
replyif its available at launch, why not just include it with the game?? It already costs a lot of money...
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Then don't buy it and quit complaining. I recently developed a drumming game with the inspiration being that of GH. Just throwing in a track isn't trivial, there is alot of timing and tweaking and work to get different difficulty levels and such, it made me appreciate what GH and RB do. Also with the licensing of the music there is always an additional cost to the developer. Sure they could include 300 songs for $60, or they could do 20. I think 87 or whatever the count is up to seems very reasonable, they have to draw the line at some point. If you all think it's a rip off then don't buy the game. It's all market driven so obviously many people including myself think it's worth it.
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I do give them some credit - they are usually working up the last possible moment before they have to fix something in place (whether going gold or the like) to get all the right licensing agreements down. It may have been those feel through after they set the setlist in stone - and at least for that classic rock pack, that would be lame to have those songs as "bonus songs" in the game.
Of course, if they were smart, these would be FREE after purchase, like RB2's 20 free DLC that's coming, but...
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they do have to stop developing to makes all those dvds... can't just keep adding stuff to it up to the day it's released you know...
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Maybe it wasn't ready when the disc went gold?
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