In a world where The Beatles Rock Band exists, the paltry effort put into Guitar Hero: Van Halen is, quite simply, deplorable. If you're going to devote the time, money, and effort to developing a band-themed game in this franchise-then do it right. Don't embarrass yourselves by passing something like this off as a legitimate, full-featured game. This one is all on Activision. It doesn't take much reading between the lines to see that Underground developed this game with both hands tied behind its proverbial back. There's simply no way this is the game they wanted to make. This isn't a game that anyone would want to make. It's a lesson in how to stick a fork in a once proud franchise.
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
