Rock Band vs Guitar Hero

...Ok... don't expect this to be as great as a psxtreme.com review. This is simply my take on both games for the PS3.

I bought Guitar Hero III first and loved it. I then bought Rock Band, and basically stopped playing GH for about 2 weeks... now, there are a few explanations for this...

1) We happened to buy RB because we were having a few people over one night and had a guest in for the week. Therefore, we could utilize the guitar, mic, and drums better rather than just 2 guitars on GH (which btw, are not sold without the entire package as of today).
2) It's simply a better game in all but a few aspects!!!

Below is a very short comparison of both games in a few different facets:

Sound:
Both games are excellent when it comes to sound. GH might have the upper hand, only because there are not drum hits overpowering the speakers.

Difficulty:
GH gets points on the difficulty for the guitar parts, but that is expected due to the name of the game.
RB, on the other hand, isn't as difficult in comparison for the guitar parts, but definately gets the 5 star rating... why? well because it has singing, drums, AND bass/guitar parts (where GH only has bass/guitar parts)

Downloadable Content:
GH has roughly 10 - 15 songs for download last time i checked.
RB has around 30 songs at last viewing... Winner? RB! Plus the songs on RB are better.

Graphics: (and this one is important on a next gen game)
GH has it's own comic-book-style graphics that could be seen on any GameCube/DreamCast system. Very dissapointing for a next-gen game (not matter what the focus is).
RB, however, is great on the graphics front. A few things that rock about RB's graphics: Customizable bandmates, Better than average custom "shopping" (for guitars and gear), and actual representation of your custom avatars on CD covers, posters, cut scenes, etc.

Overall Winner:
ROCK BAND... by a landslide!!!

Buy it today!