Guitar Hero 5 vs Journey
Guitar Hero 5
Guitar Hero 5 gives you and your friends the chance to be Rock Stars and play or sing to some of the most loved music around the world. There are a variety of instruments you can play from guitars to drums and everything in between, as well as the option to sing along to the songs too. Use existing instruments or the new ones provided with the game to enjoy a group game full of music and fun.With 85 new tracks, and a host of new playable characters there are a lot of options for you in this 5th installment of the game. The ability to buy the game alone and use your existing instruments is really nice, and you can also get a new set too. Enjoy the career mode solo or with friends, or just jump straight into a song with the much easier menu system.
Journey
Journey is literally a quintessential "artsy" adventure game. Why so? Well, the game puts you in the shoes of a mysterious robed figure who you will control throughout your adventure across beautiful, quiet and mostly desert landscapes. Each landscape provides players with a puzzle to solve that will allow them to move on to the next scene, though players can simply roam around the place and drink in the gorgeous visuals.There isn't a lot of buttons in the game and that's fine enough since you really don't need much to solve the puzzles, but personally, I'm incredibly intrigued by the Sing function. Although it is used to solve certain puzzles, most of the time you'll probably be using it idly while your character is travelling. Depending on how long you press the button and how fast you do so, you can actually create amazing little tunes that you'd love to have it recorded down and turned into perhaps a ringtone or something.
That said, Journey is a game that's so much more than composing music and solving puzzles. It is a journey (like its namesake) to help the robed figure discover who he/she is and to help you figure out what's happened in the game world, resulting in the sprawling desert that spans most of the game.