Guitar Hero: World Tour for the PS2 is, for the most part, very similar to the PS3 or Xbox 360 versions, but with limitations caused by the lack of a hard drive or online support. On an actual PS2, these problems disappear and you actually get less lag in the Recording Studio than if you were playing the PS3 version. Try the PS2 version on a PS3 and you'll get pretty bad lag issues and even a glitch that will lock up the game and require a restart if you try to go into the Recording Studio with a microphone plugged in. In addition, when you save your songs, they have to fit on a memory card, so the length of a custom song is greatly reduced.įirst thing I should warn readers here is that there is a major difference between playing this version of Guitar Hero: World Tour on the PS3 emulating the PS2 and an actual PS2. While you do have effects available for the guitars, the keyboard sounds you can create in the PS2 version of the Recording Studio when recording songs are very simple and electronic sounding, sounding like a cheap music keyboard or an older computer system. This is most highly noticeable in the Recording Studio, where you don't have an option to change your drum kit as you would in the PS3 version. Guitar Hero: World Tour has a good selection of songs, but the quality is lower, due to the smaller disc capacity. Of course, the graphics aren't the most important part of a Guitar Hero game the sound is. If you're interested in getting Guitar Hero: World Tour and you're considering purchasing a PS3, this may be the game to get a PS3 for.

Never has it been more evident than when I played Guitar Hero: World Tour The difference in the graphics between the PS2 version and the PS3 version is like night and day, as would be expected, but even the user interface in the PS2 version looks blurry, and is much more simplistic.

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