“Los Angeles may be a town known for the highest excesses of rock n’ roll debauchery (with legendarily wayward rock acts such as Motley Crue and Guns N’ Roses synonymous with the city) but Activision’s headquarters – a dull grey box located in sleepy Santa Monica – is hardly the most thrilling place in the world to get my hands on with Guitar Hero World Tour for the first time.”

As they’ve lobbed my E3 preview of Guitar Hero World Tour up online, now is as good a time as any to link to it!

There’s a small mistake in both the online and print editions of this article (you can read this preview in issues 111 of PSW, with more pictures of me, like the one above, in it) in that it lists PSW’s deputy editor Barry Keating as the author, apparently the fault of a nameless sub editor.

Oh well, such is life; at least I can set the record straight here. I wrote this preview and had fun doing so. Guitar Hero World Tour’s drums really are superb and I can’t wait to get my hands on them again.