speaking of knockoffs doesnt guitar hero remind you a bit of guitarfreaks

gh4 is way better than rb1.5 its just an expansion with different songs

As it was pointed Harmonix created both games, and Rock Band delivered a much more complete experience. Guitar hero 3 was incredibly bad, not that the songs were bad or anything, the game was simply badly done.



Being the first Neversoft has done it was normal, Now with GHWT they got it on track, the songs are good, the game offers a better experience than GH3.



Rock Band 2 is just a polished Rock band 1, but just on the same level as was GH2.



Rock Band 3 (whenever they want it out) will most likely bring new features. Thank god it's not this year. One a year is kinda cheap, I like how they offer you new songs each weeks.



GH is run in a cheaper and greedier way, just look at GH Metallica. Why do you think they have 28 Metallica songs in it? and then fill the rest with other's songs. I'm sure they have GH:Metallica 2 in head.



Rock Band has its share of cheap greediness too. With atrocities like AC DC Live. (much worse than anything GH ever done)



Get a bundle and then both games and play both.

The only way to get AC DC on rockband was to create AC DC live, so you cant say thats a bad thing. The company selling ACDC's music rights were greedy and demanding more than just having dlc.

Thank you for speaking the truth and pwning all GH-fanboys. This Forbes guy is a true idiot.

Guitar hero was made by harmonix and activition took over now guitar hero is a knock off of rock band becuase harmonix mad it and guitar hero stole the idea of drums and vocals

I like to think of both of them as Bemani knock offs, Guitar Freaks and Drummania were Deffinately ahead of their time, AND TO THIS VERY DAY, they are ALOT more fun to play. I don't care about domestic mainstream music anyhow, Do you see any Instumental Jazz or Rock? not in RB or GH, thats for sure. I prefer something challenging. RB and GH allow you to be too sloppy IMO

The recomendation I've most read is, buy Rockband game and guitar hero instruments (if you own a 360 anyway). You can't do that if you have a PS3 :(

Not sure if you can do that on the wii.

stole everything then there are multiple singing games out there and drumming and guitar was done by konami (I think)

You're actually wrong, there, Milo. Konami made rythm games popular with DDR, and they have the Guitar and Drum game series that are popular in Japanese arcades.



However, Harmonix, who made FreQuency and Amplitude, were the first to really delve into rythm games, and the first to use Mainstream licensed music.



Harmonix was really the first to make a rythm game. It was called The Axe: Titans of Classic Rock on the PC. It was released in 1995, 2 years before Konami's first foray into rythm gaming, BeatMania, which was released in 1997.



The Axe:

http://www.allgame.com/cg/agg.dll?p+agg+sql+1:20475



So, yeah, really saying Harmonix ripped anything off when it comes to rythm games is just wrong.