Which kinda seems to defeat the point of even having the GH Tunes feature.Now that Guitar Hero 5 has been released to very positive reviews, and it (mostly) imports the World Tour songs, Id love to declare Guitar Hero: World Tour utterly obsolete.
Unfortunately, GH3 and GH:A were all but unplayable on the PC due to terrible, embarrassing performance. Even on a high end gaming rig, these games had extreme video and audio lag, which made getting a decent score or enjoying the game pretty much impossible. I owned both, and believe me, I tried everything turning all the detail to minimum, resolution to the lowest possible setting, and exiting all background tasks before starting the game. From everything I could tell, it was a fundamental problem with the way the games were ported from console PC. So when I booted up the PC version of Guitar Hero: World Tour I steeled myself for even more disappointment. Imagine my surprise when this game plays every bit as well as the Xbox 360 version Its almost indistinguishable, well, except for the near-instantaneous load times that only a PC can offer.:). I tested the game extensively on guitar, playing through the entire campaign as a solo guitarist. I even trotted out my drums and handy-dandy Mad Catz M.I.C. The feel was so accurate and solid on vox, drums, and guitar that most of the time I forgot which version I was playing Thats definitely a first for any PC version of Guitar Hero. Logitech Rock Band Usb Microphone Mac Since ItsBy the way, I highly recommend the Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Receiver it lets me use all my wireless Xbox peripherals on my PC, no problem (It should also work with the Mac since its basic USB.) I used this nifty little device to test the game with a variety of guitars and the World Tour wireless drums. Press the sync button on both devices and as they say, it just works. One small problem I ran into with vocals: the game didnt want to recognize any of my microphones. After some research, I found that the PC version of Guitar Hero: World Tour is hard-coded to look for a Logitech USB Microphone literally. Youd expect it to accept whatever sound recording devices you have on your PC, but no. To get around that, I simply renamed my Mad Catz M.I.C. Logitech USB Microphone in the sound device, recording tab, properties dialog, as pictured. Goofy, but it works. Once I did that, I re-launched the game and I was able to start a vocalist career without the dreaded please connect a microphone alert. I realize that any PC Mac version of Guitar Hero is something of an oddity at best. Its still fun and convenient for a quick jam session, though. Or if youre travelling with your laptop, in a pinch, you could even play a few songs with the keyboard. Being a PC release, theres also the possibility of user-created mods: hacked songs, now with a full band, and actually playable this time around. The GHWT PC mod scene is still fairly new, but I expect in time youll be able to, uh, import every song from every Guitar Hero game ever made into this version. Anyway, World Tour is the first respectable version of any Guitar Hero on the PC to date.
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