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. Music creators can share their recordings with their friends online through GHTunes where other gamers can download their unique compositions and play them.The PS2 is growing old, indeed.
The game's Music Studio lets players express their musical creativity by giving them access to a full compliment of tools to create digital music from scratch, utilizing all of the instruments, and then play their compositions in the game. In the Band modes, up to four players can jam together, online or off, as they progress through the game, and in single-player Career Mode, players can jam on any of the instruments in branching venue progression enabling them to rock out in the order of their choice. Guitar Hero World Tour introduces Battle of the Bands mode which allows eight players to join online and challenge each other band-to-band to determine who is the best of the best. Virtual musicians can live out their rock and roll fantasies by playing either a single instrument, or any combination of instruments, in addition to the full band experience. Featuring three drum pads, two raised cymbals and a bass kick pedal, the drum controller combines larger and quieter, velocity-sensitive drum heads with soft rubber construction to deliver authentic bounce back and is easy to set up, move, break down and store.
Budding rock stars are also given creative license to fully customize everything from their characters’ appearance and instruments to their band’s logo and album covers. Additionally, the game offers significantly more localized downloadable music than ever before on all of the next-generation consoles. The game features a slick newly redesigned guitar, a genuine electronic drum kit and a microphone, as well as an innovative Music Studio music creator that lets players compose, record, edit and share their own rock and roll anthems, along with online Band Career and 8-player "Battle of the Bands." Guitar Hero World Tour is comprised entirely of master recordings from some of the greatest classic and modern rock bands of all-time including Ozzy Osbourne, Van Halen, Linkin Park, The Eagles, Sublime and many more.
The game features a slick newly redesigned guitar, a genuine electronic drum kit and Guitar Hero World Tour marries Guitar Hero's guitar gameplay, with a cooperative band experience that combines the most advanced wireless instruments with revolutionary new online and offline gameplay modes.