So I will first say, I think I have a new opinion since last talking about these two games. First let's talk about Guitar Hero World Tour, which I last time praised and said was better than Rock Band 2. Game play, disc soundtrack, and features....still has me hooked to Guitar hero World Tour, but I find I play Rock Band 2 more with friends and my girlfriend more than Guitar hero World Tour, and it is strictly because of the DLC. Yes DLC is a huge part of these games, and when I can play upwards of 300 songs all from the Rock Band 2 disc (DLC, RB1 License xfer) compared to my Guitar hero World Tour collection of about 100 or so songs, the 200 more songs makes it harder to play Guitar Hero because I want more options! That being said, this leads to the next part of the rant.

Since about halfway through December, Harmonix and Neversoft have been launching DLC, but well....crap. Worst part is both of them have done this. Let's look at the first example, the Country Track Packs. Both RB and GHWT have launched a country music pack (Going Country 01 - RB; Country Rock Track Pack - GHWT). Now when both games have titles in the names of Rock Band and Guitar Hero World Tour, Country music just doesn't fit in either of their names. First of all, Country does ROCK and second of all who in country music you would call a Guitar Hero? I am sorry, but whoever you think is the best country music guitar player, will NEVER EVER amount to such Rock Band guitar players like Dave Mustaine, Kirk Hammet, Yngwie Malmsteen, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Angus Young, ect. I feel Country music on these games is a tragic event and the crap needs to stop, but probably will not since Rock Band did make there's called Going Country 01, which leads me to believe there will be more and in past news articles Harmonix said there would be more....DAMNIT!!!!

Now not only is country been a problem, but the lack of good tunes as well since Mid-December. First I want to address the Oasis album by GHWT, you just put an Oasis pack out a few months ago...GIVE US SOME VARIETY. This is Guitar Hero, not Oasis Hero! Travis Barker pack...LAME....Bruce Springstien does at least fit the bill better than a lot of the European and Foreign crap GH has put out, but Springstien doesn't rock as hard as some of the other guys during his generation. Reggae also does not make sense in GHWT.

Now lets not leave Rock Band out, because since mid-December, they have been the worst on putting out good music. Again, RB felt the need to give us even more Foo Fighters, so it leads me to make a similar comment like I did to GHWT, this is Rock Band, not Foo Fighters band, so stop putting out more of the same bands and get some variety into the game. I wonder what made Harmonix release the Roy Orbison 01 pack, but in the name it seems like they will be releasing more and I am sorry, but Roy Orbison does not ROCK!

So what this comes down to is what has happened Neversoft and Harmonix? Why such the lame packs lately? I would not be surprised to see this DLC items not be a hot item, but I could be wrong because there still are fans out there who will support their artist, but is there enough of these types of fans to justify it over things like Iron Maiden packs (which we haven't seen a lot of this classic British Metal band in these games) or even going with not hard rockers like Billy Idol? There is room for many many great rockers, but why not use Rock and not swing towards things like Country and Reggae, it just doesn't make sense. Here is hoping to a better February set list! Cheers!