Activision Blizzard have finally announced the pricing for the Australian version of Guitar Hero: World Tour for all consoles. The Wii version kicks off from $79.95AU for the game by itself and goes up to $159.95AU for a Guitar and the game. The most expensive option is the "Super Bundle" which contains the drums, a guitar, microphone and of course the game for $319.95AU. While that's just $80AU short of a Wii it's a lot cheaper than the $500AU that Rock Band is rumoured to cost when it arrives here. Guitar Hero: World Tour will hit Australian shelves on November 12, 2008.
AusGamers has revealed the Australian release information fro Guitar Hero World Tour including bundle prices and a street date.
Kotaku writes: "The only thing better than original master recordings in a rhythm game is having the original artists go back and do the whole thing over again, and Guitar Hero: World Tour is boasting three separate re-recordings on its set list when the game hits store shelves. In addition to The Sex Pistols' "Pretty Vacant" and Motorhead's "Overkill", MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer has recruited a little help and hit the studio to re-record the classic "Kick Out the Jams". The new recording uses the original vocals from singer Rob Tyner from 1968, with Kramer, Alice in Chains (the press release says Alice "and" Chains) guitarist Jerry Cantrell and former Guns 'N' Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke."
In-Game Model of Vocalist and Lead Guitarist, Billy Corgan, and 'Today' from Four Times-Platinum Album Siamese Dream To Rock On-Disc at Launch. Also inside is the Billy Corgan Trailer.
In an absolute first for music the song G.L.O.W will be released on Guitar Hero before, not only Rock Band but before anywhere else.
Wandering around the Activision's Activate event in New Zealand today, we've managed to sneek a peek at the set list and get some official confirmation of some awesome new tracks for Guitar Hero IV...
Button Masher writes "At the Activate event in Auckland (which is still under way) Activision has announced the release date for Australia/NZ as the 12th of November. With the release of Rock Band still uncertain in NZ and even Australia it looks like Guitar Hero: Word Tour will be the first full band game to release in NZ."
A quote from Brian Bright from Vicarious Visions, project director of Guitar Hero World Tour for the Wii: "The Wii doesn't use Line 6 effects in real time BUT we exported at least 10 different guitars sample sets for the Wii. So there will be many different guitar sounds and I believe all the keyboard and drum kits are on the Wii."
It was never going to be pretty - and with Guitar Hero World Tour set to go head to head with Rock Band 2 this autumn, the rock 'n' roll royal rumble has begun in earnest.