There is too much Guitar Hero to go around this year, it seems. In 2009 alone, Activision has put out a whopping six music games, four of which bear the Guitar Hero name. Guitar Hero: Van Halen (GHVH) is the final GH release of the year coming out just in time for Christmas, and apparently that was a strict deadline to meet. This seems evident in the overall quality of the final product, which was even given out as a free extra for those who purchased Guitar Hero 5 in the month of September -- copies of the game arriving in players' mailboxes in early October. Does the game's quality (or lack thereof) kill it, or can it rely on the proven gameplay formula to keep it alive?
Outside Xbox: "Plenty of achievements are hard work, that's the point. Some games take it too far, though, with gamerscore rewards that definitely aren't worth the enormous effort you have to put in to earn them. Here are the most egregious examples of games having absolutely zero respect for your time."
Game Bosh: It's perhaps not the best of signs when a video game is given away for free long before its original release. It's even worse when just a few months after that actual release, the game is already sitting in the bargain buckets.
Meristation: The Guitar Hero saga saga created by Red Octane and Harmonix ago a whopping five years has gone further than its creators could never have dreamed. His initial idea of incorporating a guitar-shaped peripheral has expanded to enable us to form our own rock band in the company of three friends at the controls of bass, drums and microphone
