Guitar Hero World Tour Is Here, Beatles Join Rock Band

Guitar Hero World Tour

The latest installment of Guitar Hero franchise, Guitar Hero World Tour, is on the shelves now and like it’s Rock Band cousin, the new game includes drums and microphone. Check out the Brett Ratner directed commercial for GHWT below.

Guitar Hero World Tour (Risky Business: Athletes)

Here’s what slashfilm had to say about that piece of advertising:

Brett Ratner took yet another paycheck and has filmed a series of advertisements for Guitar Hero World Tour. The first of the advertisements which premiered earlier in the week, features Kobe Bryant rocking the mic, Alex Rodriguez and Michael Phelps “dancing while ripping it up on the exhilarating new guitars, and Tony Hawk sliding in on a skateboard to play the drums.” Talk about lame”¦ [slashfilm.com]

In other video game and music news, it looks like The Beatles will be coming to your consoles in the near future as it was reported today that Beatles license-holder Apple Corps has reached a deal with MTV Networks to appear in the a new video game from Harmonix, the creators of the Rock Band franchise. [mtv.com]