Guitar Hero vs. Rock Band: what's the difference?

[bbernardini]

Can somebody explain it to me, please? I've only played Guitar Hero.

[RadiationTherapy]

1. Rock Band, like Jazz Band, has multiple instruments.

RB has drum kit, bass, guitar and mic.

JB has a sax, mini-kit (Bass, snare, hi-hat), stand up bass and guitar.

[Nickster]

4. I love JB, the stand up bass is much harder to play than it looks.

[bbernardini]

2. I can't believe nobody has anything to say about this. nt

[Nickster]

3. A lot of the music overlaps between the two. Rockband has way more music to download. I think GH is

a tad bit more challenging than Rockband, I've played the same songs on the same level in both games and gotten smoked on the GH version.

[ZombieNixon]

5. Music selection, controllers are slightly different, the new GH has a built-in custom song creation

tool, RB does not, I believe.

I've grown to like these games, as Rock Band and the new Guitar Hero let me practice singing and give me a place to talk about music with some of my not otherwise musically-inclined peers.

[Symarip]

6. Wait for Ska Band to come out

It's going to have no less than 8 fake instruments in a box you can buy for 400 dollars at Costco.

[LynzM]

7. Rock band seems a bit easier...

More drunken-fun-at-parties appropriate than GH, at least in my experience. Both are fun, though!

[taterguy]

8. Haven't played GH but I think the difference is mostly in the available songs

Guitar Hero seems more mainstream

Rock Band has songs everyone will know (Gimme Shelter / Don't Fear the Reaper) but has lots of bands that I've never heard of and quasi-obscure stuff like the Pixies.

Rock Band releases new songs every week available to purchase via download at about $2 apiece or at a slightly lower rate for packs of tracks.

We've spent an embarrassingly large about on the Downloadable content but it does keep the game from getting stale.