5 fret buttons, 1 strum bar, and 1 whammy bar make up your guitar, your primary weapon in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. The object is to hit the correct notes with your guitar as they scroll across the screen. The game features singleplayer and cooperative campaign, various splitscreen battle type modes, and online play. There are 42 songs to be played in the campaign, and many others via bonus and DLC.
Visually, Guitar Hero 3 looks almost the exact same as its predecessor did. Even though in a musical game like this the graphics aren’t the focal point, that doesn’t mean the developers can get away with using the exact same visuals as number 2. The one thing I did think was impressive were the cinematic’s that would follow every time you beat a section of songs. They were pointless, and I didn’t watch most of them because of this, but they were all right looking. But in this game, contrary to Rock Band, there is no character customization. You’re able to change their guitars and you sometimes have two choices of outfits, but these things never compelled me to point out “Look! That’s my guy. Isn’t he tough?”. I never experienced any graphical hiccups but I may have just been lucky because I’ve heard multiple people complain about the framerate while in play.
Because there really isn’t any voice acting or background music, I guess audio will be dedicated to the games soundtrack. The songs of Guitar Hero 3 differ from new and old, popular hit and no-name, and difficulty of play. There from a huge variety of bands including classics from Rolling Stones and Guns N’ Roses, ‘90s gold from Pearl Jam and Weezer, and recent tunes from AFI and Muse. There are many good songs in this game, but there are many more that I have either never heard of, or are just plain bad songs. I’m not going to list these, but if I got one good song per section I would be lucky. And as a chance to redeem itself, the Downloadable Content gives you the opportunity to buy songs that you want to play. But this fails. I kept myself busy with the Halo theme song and some Linkin Park, but those only lasted maybe a couple weeks before I got sick of them. In direct comparison, Guitar Hero miserably fails in DLC due to quality and quantity.
In terms of gameplay, Guitar Hero 3 really does nothing new and like visuals, is pretty much the same as its precursor. There are bosses in this game that definitely add some flavour, but playing through the campaign just gets so repetitive and lack of good songs make it that much harder to do. While playing your favourite songs is nice, there are hardly any additions in this game which makes it seem as if this should have just been an expansion pack.
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is a great game and a definite must have for any classic rock fanatic or guitar aficionado. But the repetition and lack of innovation really hurt this game and made it hard for me to take it seriously. The achievements are incredibly hard, while challenging, they turned me off from replayabilty because they were so far out of reach. And the different modes of play barely differ from the singleplayer campaign, leading me to think that maybe this wasn’t worth my one hundred Canadian dollars.
The top-selling third-party games of all time across consoles include GTA V, Call of Duty, and Guitar Hero.
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No we DONT need guitar hero or rockband. These games have had 7+titles each console cycle and Im tired of these being the mainstream and practically only focused on musical game.
Amplitude was brought back for PS4 yet with the tech and magic of DLC we didnt get it because not only gamers but devs have become out of touch.
Thumper impressed many and is at least a step in the right direction. I rather have more games like thumper. So screw all this rockband and Guitar hero BS! Take your guitars and peripherals and break them in half!
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I preferred the patapon games but yeah. We need rhythm games to come back this gen
is highly dependant upon the songs and the tastes of the user. There were a lot more metal song in GH3 that I knew then the previous titles. Still ... while I think the songs are pretty good for a rock game, I've never liked the game. It's like a rock version of DDR. Missing a note is soooo annoying too.
Some people love these games though. Those people would probably love the game but, if you're not into this type of thing, then GH3 is no better then GH2 or 1 in any way shape or form except for maybe song selections. They ask a lot of money for the game due to the guitar as well.
Aren't they suppsed to come out with a new one this year too? The series is going to turn into a madden type thing. They should have included more of the downloadable songs with intitial game. Especially if they feel that they can release a NEW game within' a year.
I think that the songs on GH3 were decent. If Rock Band hadn't come out so soon after GH3 I probably would have played it more, I am definitely excited about the No Doubt songs that just came out for DLC, who knows if they keep putting good music on there then maybe our Rock Band Fridays will turn back into GH3 Fridays! Its a long shot, but who knows!
Boss battles=crap trying to mix things up.
Drummer animations=Terrible(not fluid, etc.)
DLC=Crap
WHY do I want to buy two discs and change them everytime I want to get a new song?
Sums up GH3.
It's not bad, but too much metal for my tastes.
RB=Balanced, fun, good DLC, good quality(IMO, except for the drum sticks, nothing has broken).
Guitar isn't as fun but drums and singing are great.
I agree with both you're reviews in words, even though your number scores are a bit harsh....
OPINIONS.
i know it wont happen, but still, itd be awesome