- Game sold separately.
Product Description
Rock out with biggest guitarists, bassists, drummers, and singers of all time with this Rock Band Wireless Guitar, whether as a solo artist or as part of a hard rocking band. The makers of this guitar made unprecedented … More >>
Xbox 360 Rock Band Wireless Guitar
Band · Guitar · Rock · Wireless · Xbox
dr tim · May 6, 2010 at 3:06 am
Love Rock Band, Love Wireless Guitar
BUT my brand new one does not work, green will NOT strum. Works for moving around the game, but not for playing songs. Sooo disappointed…
Rating: 5 / 5
Terry Mesnard · May 6, 2010 at 3:34 am
When Harmonix teamed up with RedOctane to create the Guitar Hero franchise, magic happened. They were a perfect marriage, bringing together Harmonix’s musical sensibilities with RedOctane’s expert designs for guitars. Since that first game, the guitars have become better and better. Then, Harmonix and RedOctane split and began working on two different franchises.
Why the history lesson? Because RedOctane was the instrument-creator of the two companies. Having played both Guitar Hero III and Rock Band and owning both guitars, my honest opinion is that while Rock Band wins in terms of fun and group play, RedOctane still creates the best guitars of the two.
There’s some nice functionality with the Rock Band guitar; the layout of the fret buttons are very nice and once you get used to them feel more natural than the more button-feeling GH guitars. The spacing is also pretty nice. For the most part, the five fret buttons towards the base of the guitar are useless. The only time they’ll come into play is at the end of certain songs, when you burst out into a final jam session before ending the song. Other than that, they just sit there. Untouched.
I also appreciate the longer and nicer whammy bar, not to mention the fact that the guitar is a bit bigger and feels more like a real guitar than a toy. The modulator switch is a nice addition, I suppose. However, I hardly ever touch it. Two areas are where the Rock Band guitar doesn’t quite live up to the GH guitar.
The first is the strummer and is merely a matter of opinion. It is completely silent, which might sound like a good thing but when you’re strumming up and down it’s hard to tell if your screwups are due to the guitar or your playing. The fret buttons, instead, clack louder. So instead of clacking in time with the song, you sometimes clack prior to the beat. That might not make much sense, but for a rhythm game it tends to throw me off.
Compounding the first problem I have is the fact that I don’t trust the guitar registering my strums. I had to return the first guitar I received because it was definitely registering double strums instead of single ones. However, even with the new guitar, I’m not 100% convinced it registers accurately.
I took it on a test drive, playing Rock Band songs on my GH3 guitar and the Rock Band guitar and found that on the same song/same difficulty I was consistently getting better scores with the GH3 guitar over the Rock Band guitar.
While most of the things I’ve discussed runs the gamut of personal opinions and preferences, the last issue is one that I’m still on the fence about. It’d be one thing to justify it’s in my mind and quite another to test it and find that maybe it’s not simply in my mind. It’s still a very good guitar and Rock Band is my favorite game of the two; however, I do wish the guitar rocked just as well as the RedOctane-developed one.
One final note: as of this writing, the Guitar Hero series will not recognize the Rock Band guitar. The Xbox 360 version of Rock Band will recognize GH’s guitar, obviously, but not vice versa.
Rating: 4 / 5
Matthew A. Brannock · May 6, 2010 at 5:38 am
Ok, Amazon usally has stuff cheaper, but to charge 73 bucks for this guitar is insane. wal mart, game stop and best buy around my house all had them for 60 bucks, which is the mrsp.
as for the guitar, its just like the wired one, except its now wireless. this is why a bought it and sold my other one. i prefer this strum bar of the guitar hero one, but its a matter of preference. I also like the 2 sets of frets. and I prefer these buttons, because they are embedded into the fretboard, opposed to sticking out. I recommend you go to a real store and pay the real porce for these.
Rating: 5 / 5
Miguel A. Garcia · May 6, 2010 at 6:47 am
te guitar is good but the problen is no compativol with guitar hero but the i enjoy the guitar
Rating: 4 / 5
J. Carter · May 6, 2010 at 8:33 am
If you are a Rock Band Star you need this Guitar. Works great!!! Gotta have it. I have to move when I’m Jam’n
Rating: 5 / 5