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I have purchased and played through Guitar Hero: World Tour. I enjoyed the enhanced gameplay, especially the feature that allows notes to be played while a sustain is continuously held. The slider notes are great as well, as I’m a fan of the Hammer-ons and Pull-offs, and slider notes take that one step further, getting rid of strumming altogether :) World Tour fails, however, to amp up the difficulty until the last couple sets of songs. The only one I have yet to beat is “Satch Boogie,” thanks to its section of extremely fast slider notes. I have also yet to achieve 5 stars on “Trapped in Ice” by Metallica. The other songs, however, I found easy to master. I do appreciate the track list, especially “Hotel California,” a song I had not heard before playing it, but now greatly enjoy.

I bought Guitar Hero: Smash Hits last Wednesday and beat it on Thursday. I beat “Through the Fire and the Flames” for the first time on Thursday, and achieved 4 stars on Friday. Today, I achieved 5 stars on “Psychobilly Freakout,” and 5 stars on “Play With Me.” Now, I am only two stars short of a 5star full game, having 238/240 stars. The ones I’m missing are one from “Raining Blood” and of course, one from “Through the Fire and the Flames.” These are all on the Expert difficulty.

I loved Smash Hits, because it has many songs from the original Guitar Hero, which is not available for the Xbox 360, and I’ve never played it. The re-frets of the GH2 songs are excellent as well. Guitar Hero: Smash hits adds the function of seeing your progress on how many stars you’ve while you’re still playing the song, much like Rock Band does.

World Tour also integrates new features that make it closer to mirroring the actual guitar instrument: While already holding a sustained note, players are sometimes required to play other notes as well. In the Eagles’s “Hotel California,” there is a 4-note hammer-on sustain, where the player must press Green, then Red, then Yellow, then Blue, whilst still holding down the previous notes. The “slider bar” allows players to tap notes as an alternative to strumming, as well as “slide” notes in certain sections instead of pressing fret buttons.

The drums are amped up as well: In Rock Band, players cannot activate Star Power until the next drum fill. In GH:WT, the drummer can just hit both crash cymbals at any time in the song (Or the Yellow and Blue drums if they’re using the Rock Band drum set). They also get points for drum fills, unlike Rock Band, where the fill only serves to activate Star Power.

GH:WT solves the “I don’t want to play bass, it’s too easy!” problem with the addition of the sixth note: Open Strum. It takes the form of a line across the screen, much like the kick note for the drums, but it’s purple. To hit it, the player strums without holding any fret buttons. Keeping track of six notes instead of five makes the bass much more difficult.

In Guitar Hero: World Tour, famous artists make their way onstage. Blink 182′s drummer Travis Barker, Paramore’s singer Hayley Williams, famous singer Ozzy Osbourne, Singer/bassist Sting,  guitarist Zakk Wylde, and guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, among others, make their entrance to play their hit songs alongside the player’s avatars.

World Tour also features an amazing setlist, from classics like Van Halen’s “Hot for Teacher” to modern hits like Linkin Park’s  “What I’ve Done,” World Tour truly embodies the many varieties of Rock.

I doubt I’ll ever be able to afford one of these but if I can afford a cool car one day, this will be it!

Thankfully, there is a wide variety of weapons at the survivors’ disposal. From automatic shotguns to sniper rifles, there are plenty of guns to fit any player’s fighting style. Moltov-cocktails and Pipe-bombs make useful explosives, as the cocktail sends up a wall of flame and the Pipe-bomb beeps for a few seconds prior to exploding, attracting any zombies who hear it to pile on top of it.

Health packs are few and far between, and on harder difficulties players will find themselves having to decide whom amongst them to save. Pain-pills can be found every so often, but the temporary health boost they give wears off slowly.

At certain intervals along the way, players stop in “Safe-houses” which zombies cannot enter. Inside, players can restock on ammunition, switch weapons, and heal up with the med-packs that can be found there.

“Left 4 Dead” is a great game to play with a friend. Players will be watching each others’ backs and calling out for help all the way through each challenge.