Guitar Hero III

Guitar Hero III

How often do you catch yourself, hands outstretched strumming an invisible guitar, to the latest hard rock song? Designed by the guys over at Neversoft, Activision, and Red Octane, Guitar Hero lets you cure this craving of air guitaring to a whole new level.

With a new wireless guitar peripheral, with a detachable neck, lets you rock out easily in more places than before. This comes in the most easily recognized guitar, the Les-Paul. The Les-Paul comes in a slick black exterior or an eye catching white, depending for which console you buy it for. Not only do the guitars come in different colors, but you can further customize these with interchangeable faceplates. I chose the pastel yellow, Sex Pistols.

Along with an amazing new guitar, this game comes with new features, including new songs, boss battles, and online capabilities. The songs in this third generation game are more difficult and take more skill to beat. Numbering at 74 songs this can be quite a journey, to help you out on this tough trek of skill, sweat, and luck to become a Guitar Hero, comes easier use of hammer-ons, and pull-offs. These allow you to pull off solos with more ease.

The boss battles in this game are, well, just really disappointing. They were not needed and hinder your way to becoming a rock legend.

The song choice of this game is very broad. The earlier sets have songs from mostly the 70’s and 80’s, Slow Ride by Foghat, Paranoid by Black Sabbath, and Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll by Blue Öyster Cult. With songs like Before I Forget by Slipknot, Stricken by Disturbed, and the almighty behemoth of a song Through the Fire and Flames by Dragonforce appeal to the newer Hard Rock Genre, during the later sets. With 74 choices of songs, with more on their way via downloadable content, you should be happily satisfied with this game for a while. If the songs do not keep your attention, the new online play allows you to battle others across the world, pair up and become a dynamic duo, or just whip some people in the face-off mode.

Although this game was not what I expected it to be, it is worth a buy.