While reviewer Nathan Meunier isn't a huge Van Halen fan, he still recognizes their success both as commercially and critically. That's why he was so surprised that Guitar Hero: Van Halen did such a poor job of paying proper respect to the band's long and illustrious career. With poor production values and a lack of "memorabilia" to please hardcore fans, this expansion fails to properly categorize the band's achievements, making it nothing more than a glorified track pack.
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
