But Rock Band fans are in for an unexpected treat: You can actually buy the game disk for this newest rock вЂnвЂ™ roll fantasy separately and plug in with Rock Band instruments that may already be cluttering your family room. The big-box version of World Tour sports wireless drums, guitar and wired mic.

If all youвЂ™ve every played up till now is Guitar Hero, youвЂ™re going to need to stock up on instrumentation to catch up with the craze. That salvo, shot across the mother shipвЂ™s bow, was heard round the world.ДЄnd speaking of the great big world, Guitar Hero: World Tour becomes the answering blast. But Rock Band raised the fantasy guitar-whaling bar by giving gamers the chance to also play drums and sing vocals-all wrapped up and sold in a neat (and pricey) instrumental box set. The new kid on the block was the same kind of game, complete with customizable onscreen alter egos and lengthy playlists. It was met with thunderous applause and made the genre a whole lot more interesting. In 2007, Harmonix-having parted ways with RedOctane-created and launched a competing product called Rock Band.

To date, 23 million copies of games in that world-sweeping franchise have been snatched off store shelves and are currently playing at all hours of the night on an Xbox, PlayStation or Wii console near you. In 2005, Harmonix Music Systems partnered with video game publisher RedOctane to create a fresh, plastic guitar-wielding, colored button-bashing, rhythm/music game called Guitar Hero.

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