Please Fix Guitar Hero World Tour for the Wii

Dear Activision and Vicarious Visions,

We, the Wii owners who have each spent $200 (or more, considering those who have imported the title) on your excellent music title Guitar Hero World Tour, are to varying degrees, disappointed. We waited, we daydreamed, we salivated at the thought of being able to play this game on our Nintendo Wiis (which until this point had no true band game available for it). Some of us even traded in our game collections at Gamestop to be able to afford this game.

And yet, many of us feel that we have been let down. There are two much-hyped features of Guitar Hero World Tour that, although we were led to believe would be left intact for the Wii version, instead we find are severely lacking:

1. The Create a Rockstar mode.

We Wii owners are huge customization geeks. We love being able to design celebrity look-alikes, as well as our own unique and sometimes goofy-looking characters. Have you seen what people have accomplished with the simple Mii avatar system? And yet the Mii avatar system is in several ways more customizable than the avatar system offered in Vicarious Vision's GHWT. In the PS360 versions of GHWT you can alter everything from your characters cheekbone width, the placement of their eyebrows, to the length of their jaw. In the Wii version of GHWT you can do none of those things. Every male and female character alike has the eye shape, and the same wide mouth. Even with the limited system that Nintendo devised for the Miis, you can choose between a wide or a narrow mouth, or a long or a stout head.

And please don't tell us that the Wii isn't capable of deep character customization. Yukes, a small Japanese development team known primarily for sports games, made a much deeper character customization system in their WWE Day of Reckoning series of games....for the Gamecube. We all know that the Wii is capable of as much, if not more than the Gamecube. There is absolutely no reason that we can't enjoy this one feature that for many of us was a deciding factor in buying this over Rock Band 2.


2. Online mode.

Many of us bought the game believing that we would get a full online experience. Instead we find out that we can only connect to two other Wiis at once. What gives? We know that the Wii is capable of a more robust online experience--Mario Kart Wii can connect up to 12 player at once, and Call of Duty can handle up to 32 players. So where is the real band-on-band experience that was promised to us?

Also, the available DLC seems quite lacking compared to other versions of Guitar Hero World Tour. We know that things will probably pick up steam as time goes on, but if this doesn't improve many of us will be disappointed.


All in all, many of us who bought the game feel that we were mislead.
We were told that GHWT would push the limits of the Wii, when in fact some features (such as character customization) don't even live up to standards set by the Gamecube. Therefore, we are asking that these issues please be addressed with a patch or replacement disc. We've come to expect a lot from Vicarious Visions over the last couple of years, and while the Mii Freestyle modes and the SD Card management system are impressive, these are no replacement for the two much-hyped modes--Create a Rockstar and Online Band--that we feel are a major disappointment when compared to the versions offered on other systems. We know that the Wii is much less powerful than the XBox 360 or PS3. But we're smart enough to know it's really not that weak. All we want is what people like Brian Bright and Karthik Bala promised us---a deep character customization tool, and a full online experience.