Harmonix and PDP have announced that they will be shipping a kick pedal and double bass pedal adaptor pack for $24.99. The pedal is compatible with all iterations of Rock Band (every console), as well as Guitar Hero: Metallica and Guitar Hero: World Tour.

This is great for those who are either really good at the drums, or those who like to be frustrated by even greater difficulty. It’s a good deal considering that you might have had to shell out for a new drum kit to play the Expert+ mode in GH:Metallica. Oh, and don’t forget, folks, Guitar Hero:Metallica has the Zungre Seal of Approval™.

So you’re sitting in front of your TV with your partially unbuttoned dress shirt and your tighty whitey underwear asking yourself “how can my plastic guitar rock experience get any better?”

Well, the first thing you can do is invite a few of your buddies over and recreate the Tony Hawk, Kobe Bryant, A-Rod, and Michael Phelps commercial — and once the emotional high wears off from that, you can thank Activision by downloading their latest “Country Rock” expansion featuring: Rascal Flatts “Me and My Gang,” Brad Paisley’s “Ticks”, and Brooks & Dunn’s “Hillbilly Deluxe.”

This little taste of country can be yours for 440 MS points on XBL and $5.49 on the PSN. Yeeee-Haaaw!!!!

Seriously, who thought four grown men wearing pink dress shirts and white boxers sock sliding across a hardwood floor was a good way to market Guitar Hero: World Tour?

What type of Rock Band Group are Tony Hawk, Alex Rodriguez, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Phelps forming? A sissy band that caps off a long night of underwear performances in their living room with a pillow fight? Maybe they can call their band the “Old News Pretty Boy Ski Lodge Olympic Mike” Band. Why Mike? Who told you to do this commercial?

Activision, please hear my plea. Fire your ad agency. The quadruple piano intro is to testosterone as Kryptonite is to Superman.

Afterthought: Does anyone actually like these commercials? Does this make you want to buy Guitar Hero over Rock Band 2?

Activision announced today that Sting and Tool will be added to the lineup for Guitar Hero World Tour. In addition to their music, Sting will be contributing his voice and likeness to an in-game character, and Tool will be adding their creative input on the design of a new venue.

This is a nice step forward by Activision. The announcements of new tracks can get a bit old, but the addition of twists like this definitely help in my opinion.

Afterthought: What say you? Do in-game characters and band inspired venues matter to you, or would you just rather a more in-depth track selection?

Full press release and in-game screens available after the jump.

In-game Sting Character Model

In-game Tool Venue Screen

MULTI-GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING ARTISTS STING AND TOOL TO ROCK IN GUITAR HERO® WORLD TOUR

Police Frontman/Bassist Sting to Lend Voice and Likeness; Rockers Tool Bring Three Popular Tracks and Band-Designed Venue to the Game

Santa Monica, CA – September 5, 2008 – Rock and roll legend Sting and progressive metal pioneers Tool are making their video game debuts, contributing more than just music, in Activision Publishing, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) Guitar Hero® World Tour.

In what will be the largest collection of artists ever to appear in a Guitar Hero game, singer-songwriter, actor, author, activist and lead singer/bassist of The Police, Sting will add his voice and likeness as an in-game character. Aspiring frontmen can take the stage as Sting throughout their vocal career or play alongside him as he performs one of The Police classics, “Demolition Man.”

Hugely popular alternative metal band Tool, known for their epic, intense musical arrangements and killer visual arts, will also soon be known for their contribution to the upcoming Guitar Hero World Tour. Guitar Hero fans from all over the world will be able to rock out to “Parabola” and Grammy-award winning “Schism” from Tool’s critically-acclaimed 2001 album Lateralus in addition to “Vicarious” from their 2006 Grammy-award winning album 10,000 Days. The game will also feature an all-new venue designed in collaboration with the band and highlighting the art style that has become a staple in their music videos, live shows and album artwork.

When the house lights go down this fall, a new generation of guitarists, drummers and fearless frontmen will come together and rock with Guitar Hero World Tour. The latest installment in the #1 best-selling video game franchise of 2007, Guitar Hero World Tour transforms music gaming by expanding Guitar Hero’s signature guitar gameplay into a cooperative band experience that combines the most advanced wireless controllers with new revolutionary online* and offline gameplay modes including Band Career and 8-player “Battle of the Bands,” which allows two full bands to compete head-to-head online for the first time ever. The game features a slick newly redesigned guitar controller, drum kit controller and a microphone, as well as an innovative Music Studio music creator that lets players compose, record, edit and share their own rock ‘n’ roll anthems. Music creators will also be able to share their recordings with their friends online through GHTunesSM where other gamers can download and play an endless supply of unique creations.

Guitar Hero World Tour is being developed by Neversoft Entertainment for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. The Wii™ version is being developed by Vicarious Visions. The PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system version is being developed by Budcat. The game is rated “T” for Teen by the ESRB. For more information on Guitar Hero World Tour, please visit www.guitarhero.com.

Back when Rock Band first debuted, Xbox 360 users were pleased to find out that their Guitar Hero instruments were compatible with their Rock Band sets, and vice versa. Unfortunately, PS3 users became accustomed to getting the shaft when Activision refused to let the Fender Stratocaster to work with any of the future or past Guitar Hero titles.

Today, Neversoft announced at Leipzeig that all GHWT instruments will be compatibile with their Rock Band companions. Neversoft’s Brian Bright even went into details on how drum compatibility would work, due to the difference in the amount of pads- the orange pad, the crash cymbal, will map to the blue pad, but if a note is there already, it will map to the green pad instead. Yeah, I don’t get it either.

Neversoft also showed off the Wii version of Guitar Hero World Tour, which will actually have something exclusive for once- a Mii Freestyle mode, in which you can rock out with your coc- er, Mii out and learn about the game or just screw around. But that’s not all!

According to Neversoft’s Brian Bright, the Wii version of Guitar Hero World Tour will let you use your Wiimote and Nunchuk to play the air guitar and air drums. Wow. Wii Music’s not even out, and it seems Wii’ve* already got a Wii Music Killer on our hands.

* I promise I’ll never do that again. Ever.

Hot off the heels of the leaked setlist that escaped onto the internet a week ago, a Guitar Hero community member leaked a picture of the latest issue of OXM, which confirms thirty of the songs that are indeed in the final version of Guitar Hero World Tour.

Not only does it list a wide variety of bands from Bob Seger to At The Drive-In, but it matches up almost perfectly with the leaked list from August 8th. If you look closely on the side, you can also see some of the venues that are in the game, including The House of Blues, Amoeba Records, an Aircraft Carrier, and an English Castle. Be on a look out for the next issue of OXM, where you should be able to see the full article, which goes into detail about some of the game’s features and venues.

Hit the jump for the confirmed setlist, as well as the leaked one from last week.

[songs in bold are confirmed]
30 Seconds to Mars – “The Kill”
311 – “Beautiful Disaster”
Airbourne – “Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast”
Allman Brothers – “Ramblin’ Man”
Anouk – “Good God”
The Answer -”Never Too Late”
At the Drive-In – “One Armed Scissor”
Beastie Boys Feat. Kerry King – “No Sleep ‘Till Brooklyn”
Billy Idol – “Rebel Yell”
Black Label Society – “Stillborn”
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – “Weapon of Choice”
Blink-182 – “Dammit”
Blondie – “One Way or Another”
Bob Seger – “Hollywood Nights”
Bon Jovi – “Livin’ on a Prayer”
Bullet For My Valentine – “Scream Aim Fire”
Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Up Around the Bend”
Coldplay – “Shiver”
Dinosaur Jr. – “Feel the Pain”
The Doors – “Love Me Two Times”
Dream Theater – “Pull Me Under”
The Eagles – “Hotel California”
The Enemy – “Aggro”
Filter – “Hey Man Nice Shot”
Fleetwood Mac – “Go Your Own Way”
Foo Fighters – “Everlong”
The Guess Who – “American Woman”
Interpol – “Obstacle 1″
Jane’s Addiction – “Mountain Song”
Jimi Hendrix – Disc: “The Wind Cries Mary”, “Purple Haze (Live)”/ Possible DLC: “Little Wing” “Foxey Lady”
Joe Satriani – “Satch Boogie”
Jimmy Eat World – “The Middle”
Korn – “Freak on a Leash”
Lacuna Coil – “Our Truth”
Linkin Park – “What I’ve Done”
The Living End – “Prisoner of Society”
Los Lobos – “La Bamba”
Lynard Skynard – “Sweet Home Alabama”
The Mars Volta – “L’Via L’Viaquez”
Metallica – “Trapped Under Ice” DLC: “Death Magnetic Album”
Michael Jackson Feat. Eddie Van Halen -”Beat It”
Modest Mouse – “Float On”
Motörhead – “Overkill”
Muse -”Assassin”
Nirvana – “About A Girl”
No Doubt – “Spiderwebs”
NOFX – “Soul Doubt”
Oasis – “Some Might Say”
Ozzy Osbourne – “Crazy Train”, “Mr. Crowley”
Paramore – “Misery Business”
Pat Benetar – “Heartbreaker”
Radio Futura – “Escuela de Calor”
REM – “The One I Love”
Rise Against – “Re-education Through Labor”
Sex Pistols – “Pretty Vacant”
Steve Miller Band – “The Joker”
Smashing Pumpkins – “Today”
Sublime – “Santeria”
Silversun Pickups – “Lazy Eye”
Steely Dan – “Do It Again”
The Police – “Demolition Man”
The Stone Roses – “Love Spreads”
Survivor – “Eye of the Tiger”
System of a Down – “BYOB”
Ted Nugent – “Stranglehold”
Tokio Hotel – “Monsoon”
Tool – “Parabola”, “Schism”, “Vicarious”
Trust – “Antisocial”
Van Halen – “Hot for Teacher”
Willie Nelson – “On the Road Again”
Wings – “Band On the Run”

Songs not on the leaked list, but confirmed:
The Doors – “Light My Fire”
Flo Rida ft. T-Pain – “Low (Travis Barker Remix)”
Lostprohpets – “Rooftops”
Linkin Park – “In The End”
Negramaro – “Nuvole”

Source: Guitar Hero Forums and Destructoid