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No. Guitar Hero 1 and 2 were created by Harmonix and Red Octane. After Guitar Hero 2 came out, Harmonix was bought by, and recently separated from, Electronic Arts, and Red Octane was bought by Activision. However, the two companies were contractually obligated to 3 games, therefore they released the critically sub-par "Rocks the 80s".
At that point, Harmonix, under EA, went on to produce Rock Band, which added vocals and drums, and has a very different visual style. At the same time, Red Octane, under Activision, released Guitar Hero 3, which started to include real-life musicians Slash and Tom Morello.
Red Octane had already submitted a copyright for "Drum Hero", and upon seeing the success of the "whole band" approach that Rock Band took, it was determined that the progress on "Drum Hero" would be folded into Guitar Hero: World Tour. Due to the fact that Harmonix had already released a drum peripheral with 4 drums and the kick pedal, Red Octane decided to take a different approach, resulting in the 3 drum, 2 cymbal, kick pedal Guitar Hero drum set.
However, it is believed that the separation of Red Octane and Harmonix may have damaged the music game genre in the long run, with 2009 being the worst year in sales for the genre since before Dance Dance Revolution was first released by the Bemani subdivision of Konami. The reason for the low sales were due to the "over-saturation" of the market by Activision, with Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, Smash Hits, Metallica, 5, Van Halen, and Band Hero all being released within a very short amount of time, with some of them getting very poor reception.
It is unclear whether Harmonix will continue as an independent company or be bought out by Activision.
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