New Guitar Hero Drumset Showcased

Kotaku is just one of many to have captured a recent showcase of Guitar Hero World Tour by Activision's CEO, Bobby Kotick. They have a nice video highlighting gameplay on the fancy new drumset. Looks like Guitar Hero is really turning up the heat in the ongoing war with Rock Band for dominance.

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Hero!

[Onuma]

While the games are fun, and they ingeniously incorporate video gaming with listening to music, they do not really simulate their actual counterparts. The singing portion can be hummed to tune. The guitar has 5 buttons (with a new slide-bar type control for Guitar Hero: World Tour, apparently) rather than 6 strings times 22 or 24 frets of a real guitar. The drums for this one will be a 3-piece with 2 cymbals and a kick, which is better than Rock Bands, imo. However, there is no hi-hat function, no double-kick option, no rim shots, or anything else to simulate actual drumming.
I love playing games like this, but they're simply nothing like making and performing the music yourself.
There are a few people who have modified their real drum kits with electronic triggers hooked into Rock Band. Check those out on youtube and such - now THAT'S how you play a game! If they could do this for guitar, I'd be in my glory.