Guitar Hero World Tour vs Wii Music

Gentlemen, choose your instruments. The two hottest music games of the year have hit the shops, and the question on the lips of every wannabe pop star is: which one has the X factor?

The two games — Nintendo’s Wii Music and Guitar Hero World Tour — both promise players the thrill of reproducing well-known songs and allow them to mime along to their favourites: strum a digital guitar or bang a digital drum and the movement and sound will be recreated on the screen by their digital character.

Each game takes a radically different approach. With Guitar Hero World Tour, which is available on most consoles, players use instrument-style props to play along as accurately as possible to various tunes shown on a television screen. Unlike previous editions of the series, in which players could only use a plastic guitar, gamers can now also bash drums or even yell into a microphone.