Guitar Hero III Review

What can I say about Guitar Hero III....well alot actually, but what I can say that is good about it? Not that much. I was looking forward to this game after completing Guitar Hero II and Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks The 80's. After Harmonix left to pursue Rock Band, Activision took it upon themselves to "retool" the game and make it "better"

Let me say this first. There was nothing wrong with the game at all, if they just kept on releasing songs as downloadable content, I would be completly happy. They gave the game some graphical updates which seemed nice at first, but after the game was out for a little bit, you can see that it wasn't all that great.

The characters are more gimicky than ever, one character Judy Nails got a boob job and they bounce around so much that it is really distracking from the game itself. The characters just seem lame and cartoony. The only character I even played as was the God of Rock, which was the only cool character. The band singer also looks terrible and looks like something out of someone's nightmare....I can't believe they thought this was a good choice to put him in this game looking like that.

The story line of Guitar Hero III is not terrible...well until the end when you sell your soul to the devil to be rockstarts, but then you have to battle the devil in hell playing "Devil went down to Georgia"....now that is just retarted. Guitar Hero II's storyline wasn't even really a story line just a bunch of venues. Each one becoming bigger until you play at Stonehege and UFO fly around...not all that bad.

I really wanted to like this game, and I did...for about two weeks...untill Rock Band came out and blew this game out of the water. I didn't even put this game back into my 360 until I moved to Colorado and I heard that they released Areosmiths remade version of Dream On. The game is just terrible and there arn't even that many good songs...I say somewhere around ten maybe fifteen songs all together that I would want to play.

After playing Rock Band and seeing what a great job they did with it, and looking at how nice and neat and professional that game looks...I would be ashamed of Guitar Hero III. As promised there was supposed to be downloadable content and new songs from day one, Just like Guitar Hero II but that didn't really happen, and they only have released a few downloadable tracks, which you have to get in a three pack and usually only get one song that you really like and want to play. Unlike Rock Band where you can download just one song or a pack...and I believe its cheaper too....wow Guitar Hero III really sucks.

The redeaming factors of this game are far and few. The difficulty level was cranked way up. which can be either good or bad, depending on what way you look at it. For someone like me, I like challenging, but not want to break my controller challenging. I could finish a few songs on Expert on Guitar Hero II and I can get to the last tier of songs on Rock Band on Expert, and I beat Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80's on Expert....but I can not even beat Hard on Guitar Hero III...that kinds sucks.

So I keep trying to say something nice about this game....but I keep getting sidetracked on all the stuff I hate about it. So I'll just get to the likes and dislikes.

Likes:

Guitar Hero game with new songs

You get to play Through The Fire And Flames from Dragonforce!

A couple downloadble songs were free, like Areosmith and Dropkick Murphys

Dislikes:

Hard difficulty, even if you are good at Guitar Hero, its the hardest one yet

Character models look cheesy and lame and the singer just looks god awful

Not enough good songs that you want to play...The game is called Legends of Rock and they have crap like Slipknot in there...Hardly legendary

Downloadble Content only gets release every few months

Looks sloppily put together and childish when compared to Rock Band

Overall: Only buy this game to have more songs to play with the Guitar. Once Rock Band came out Guitar Hero was dead to me. If I was Activision, I would be ashamed of this game after looking at Rock Band.