Guitar Hero 3 has been one of the best selling Wii video games. And who can argue with that when the game is just so amazing. The game costs around $90 in most stores and includes the game, wireless guitar and guitar strap and stickers to trick out the guitar. It's a great bargain. The graphics are almost lifelike and the gameplay is true to the bone. There are 48 songs that you can play in the Career modes and there are also around 20 super bonus songs, including the impossible Through The Fire and Flames by Dragonforce. There are many modes to play in the game and I'll go over them all.
In Career mode, you can play any one of the four difficulties: Easy, which uses the first three fret buttons, Medium, which uses the first four fret buttons and requires some chord work, Hard, which uses all of the fret buttons and requires a large amount of skill, and expert, which includes all of the fret buttons and needs some of the fastest fingers on the planet. In each Career mode, there are five songs in a set and an encore. In Easy and Medium, you can skip one of the five songs in the set and play the encore. In Hard and Expert, you have to play every song. After you beat the songs in the first two sets, you have a boss battle with Tom Morello, guitarist of Rage Againist The Machine. Once you beat him, you play his encore, which is Bulls On Parade. After completing the songs in the first five sets, you go up againist Slash, guitarist of Guns and Roses and Velvet Revolver. If you beat him, you play his amazing encore of Welcome To The Jungle. If you manage to finish the game, you play the final boss, which is Lou, who is supposed to represent the devil. The song is The Devil Went Down to Georgia. Beat him and the game is finished. You have to beat the bosses in each difficulty.
The next mode is Co-op Career. it is just like Career but you have two people instead of one. The lowest difficulty deterines the cash amount and which difficulty you beat it on, so it encourages moving up and playing at a harder level. the songs remain the same but the encores are different. There are two cool catches to this mode. The first is one person gets to play guitar and another gets to play bass, or one person plays lead and another plays rhythm. Another cool catch is you don't have to play all of the songs so some of the blistering songs are optional.
Another mode is Play Now, which lets you play any of the songs you have unlocked on any difficulty. It is only one-player though. You pretty much play for a high score and 5 stars in this mode.
A fourth mode is Multiplayer. You can play another person in this mode on three types of games. The first one is Face-Off, where you can be on different difficulties and you don't have to play all of the notes. the only bad part to this is that the person on the lower difficulty gets more points for hitting their notes. The second game is Pro Face-Off, which is almost the same thing as Face-Off but with a few different rules. You play all of the notes in this mode and you're both on the same difficulty, so there is no point difference when you hit them. The last game is Battle. This is like Pro Face-Off but you use power-ups in this game to try to fail your opponent. You get the power-ups by getting through star power phrases. You also use these power-ups to beat Tom Morello, Slash, and Lou.
The fifth mode is Nintendo Wi-Fi. In this mode, you play people from across the world who have an Internet connection. You can play them in Face-Off, Pro Face-Off, Battle, and Co-Op. You can also play friends by making them friends by putting in their friend code.
The sixth and final game play mode is Tutoruial mode. These give you the basic controls to the game and help you get better. There also is Practice mode. In this mode, you can play any section from a song or the whole song on any difficulty and not fail. It helps you conquer that finger blazing toughie.
Besides a plethotra of game play modes, there also is a Store where you can spend the money you earned from Career and Co-Op Career on any items you have unlocked from those modes. you can but new guitars, finishes for the guitars, new characters, outfits for the characters, outfit styles for the characters, and videos that you can watch in the options menu. Also, you can buy bonus songs to play in Play Now mode.
Playing Guitar Hero 3 on the Wii is much different than playing it on the Xbox 360 or the PS3. You can't download songs like you can on the other platforms. The guitar is in white instead of black. Also, the Wii remote goes in the guitar, so it's really difficult to lose your connection. There are also many similarities in the game. All of them contain an online mode and the same songs. All of the controllers are wireless also.
So that's Guitar Hero 3 in an almost nutshell. If that doesn't get you driving over to Best Buy and buying the game in less than 30 seconds, then I might recommend therapy. This game is one of the best in history and has been on the top of the charts for months now. Once again, harmonix outdid themselves in making this great game.