New Guitar Hero 5 drum kit revealed

By Ellie Gibson Published 17 July, 2009

This one looks a bit more streamlined.

Official pictures of the new Guitar Hero 5 drum kit have popped up on the internet.

As you can see, the controls are now front and centre and the cymbals have come full circle. The whole thing looks a bit less clunky, too.

There's no word on price just yet - expect more news in the run-up to the game's September release. In the meantime, the gamepage is stuffed full with screenshots, previews, videos and naked pictures of women from Hollyoaks. Maybe not the last one but you might as well have a look just to be sure.

Picture of Ellie.

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Comments (21) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Zomoniac #1 3 years ago

    That looks much cheaper and nastier than the GHWT one.

  • kangarootoo #2 3 years ago

    It does look kind of "plastickier". That said, it looks rather more solid.

    Maybe they are finally learning what any drummer could have told them from the start about how tough these things need to be to withstand any significant amount of normal use.

  • Sir_TimAlot #3 3 years ago

    Sold!

  • Acornhead! #4 3 years ago

    As much as I love Guitar hero i'm hardly going to fork on another drum kit, especially one that looks like the Rock Band kit and GHWT kit have had a love child lol.

  • Zomoniac #5 3 years ago

    You think? Doesn't look solid to me. That pedal looks like it'll go within minutes. And I'm guessing that it won't be adjustable? This real drummer has hammered the hell out out his Rock Band drums for a year and it has withstood it just fine. What they need to learn are the real problems: make it quieter, MAKE IT REBOUND PROPERLY (this cannot be emphasised enough), either put the pads in the right place or make them adjustable, and make it 100% accurate 100% of the time (not just randomly dropping notes during rolls because the triggers can't pick up doubles). Then I'll approve.

  • Klinjon #6 3 years ago

    Wow. More Ellie Gibson "I'm secretly/not so secretly a lesbian" jokes. Refreshing Eurogamer. Refreshing.

  • Mongoose #7 3 years ago

    I completely agree!!
    Edited by Mongoose at 17/07/09 @ 11:53

  • kangarootoo #8 3 years ago

    @Zomoniac

    Well, the cymbals look tougher to my eyes. The pedal looks like all the others. It is still ludicrous that neither game is using a metal strutted pedal as standard.


    "This real drummer has hammered the hell out out his Rock Band drums for a year and it has withstood it just fine"

    Well I would count yourself lucky then. Maybe your proper pedal technique is what is saving your pedal (non drummers tend to stamp, as you probably know), but these controllers should be able to cope with use by all gamers whether they have a good technique or not.


    As for rebound, there is surely a way to mod the pedal to make it work with a proper kick pedal.
    Edited by kangarootoo at 17/07/09 @ 12:14

  • daz_john_smith #9 3 years ago

    Adding the option to attach the bass pedal to the stand is a welcome addition. I love my GHWT kit, have beaten the shit out of it and never had a problem, however the pedal just won't stay still on my friends carpet and it makes it virtually unplayable on harder difficulty settings meaning we have to use the RB kit at his house.

  • Hog-lumps #10 3 years ago

    @kangarootoo

    I think he meant the rebound of your sticks from hitting the drum skins, not the pedals?

  • Domovoi #11 3 years ago

    "Naked pictures of women"? Pass. I'll wait for the pictures of naked women.

  • Toothball #12 3 years ago

    It looks like it's trying really hard to be the Ion kit. Am surprised they didn't move on to a metal pedal though, as that can help against over-enthusiastic friends. I broke a friend's pedal once at a party, but my own one survived many hours of drumming. I replaced both with a metal alternative soon after, although we both now have Ion kits anyway.

  • Zomoniac #13 3 years ago

    @kangarootoo

    I was referring to stick rebound. Real drums bounce like hell when you throw a stick at them. Most technical drummers play almost all their drums without ever lifting the stick up, just controlling the rebound. Watch the first 10 seconds of this. That's a cheap £10 rubber practice pad that behaves fairly convincingly like a real drum head. Watch how the sticks move, and note he's not lifting them at all. Now try doing that on the Rock Band pads. They're just dead, it's like hitting a pillow, only louder. In fact here is a video of someone dropping a marble onto a RB pad, then onto the RB2 ION pads, just to give an idea of how incredibly BAD the main RB kit is.

    And yes, the pedal technique I'm sure helps. IIRC the new RB2 drums (which aren't out here but will be available with the Beatles RB pack) has a metal-plated pedal.

  • PlugMonkey #14 3 years ago

    daz_john_smith: Have you tried adhesive velcro pads? I've been using them for years to stop driving wheel pedals migrating across the carpet.

    Does anyone have any advice for repairing a Rock Band drum pedal? Mine's developing a crack across it after a particularly enthusiastic session. I think I'll start saving for the ION one. That looks sweet.

  • MikeN #15 3 years ago

    @Zomaniac

    But the 'Ringo' drums are only available in the Beatles band kit. Considering that EA/HMX never bothered to release the RB2 drums over here I can't understand why they don't release the new drums separately.

  • Toothball #16 3 years ago

    @PlugMonkey:

    I went with one of these when I put my foot through a pedal: [link url=http://www.area51moto.com/mega/
    ]http://www.area51moto.com/mega/
    [/link]

    The full pedal replacement is a nice improvement as not only is is solid, it also has more weight to it so it's easier to press. I expect the metal plate offerings do a decent job of keeping your pedal together though.

    I can't recommend the Ion kit enough though, especially with the optional extra cymbal. Takes a little getting used to when trying to go for the pads or cymbals, but it's not all that important as Rock Band lets you do either. But once you get the hang on it, it's something else.

  • FourS33N #17 3 years ago

    no point in buying these if ive already got the original :/ ot atleast they would have to stop charging mega bucks for there hole set ups.

  • aphexstwin #18 3 years ago

    i had 5 ghwt kits that all failed for me, and game refused to honour a repair saying that they had an email from activision, stating all repairs had to go to them. i had to modify the red pad to eliminate 'ghost hits' (the pad was uber sensitive after a short period of play, i found a kind of bubble was setting the sensor off without direct contact) and my yellow cymbal was just shocking on 4 of the kits. so the two main pieces were faulty for me basically.

    so, im hoping the pads get an overhaul for this new sleeker looking kit. but what i should have done was keep my old faulty kit and by a midi capable, proper kit and wired through to play the game. hindsight and all that...

  • Zomoniac #19 3 years ago

    game refused to honour a repair saying that they had an email from activision, stating all repairs had to go to them

    Game have a legal responsibility to do it. They don't have any choice in the matter. Don't let them fob you off.

  • aphexstwin #20 3 years ago

    no, zomoniac, i checked it out. it turns out that game are allowed to seek advice and get repairs from an outside source, in this case activision themselves. but, what i really wanted was a replacement yellow cymbal because i'd already repaired the red pad and didnt want acti to know i'd had it open. when i talked to my mates at gamestation, owned by game, they said they'd had no such email from activision and would have repaired instore regardless on the basis of good customer relations. gutted much...

  • PlugMonkey #21 3 years ago

    Cheers, Toothball!

    That looks just the ticket. I'll probably look into getting an ION set at some point, but a replacement pedal will get me rocking again in the meantime.