Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

Something definitely changed in this game when the developers switched from Harmonix to Neversoft. It just doesn't have the same feel as GH 2. It's not that the tracks aren't just as good or the songs aren't as fun, but it's just not the same rockin' good time that the other one was. First of all, Casey Lynch looks absolutely ridiculous. One of my favorite characters from the previous games had a complete makeover down to the hair color. Her skimpy leather costumes simply don't match her tomboy look from the last game. Also, they replaced Eddie Knox with Midori, a character who would honestly fit in better with a cheesy DDR knockoff than a game like this. Her bright Barbie doll apparrel simply does not fit in with any of the songs or the other characters, while Eddie Knox was one of the most popular characters. The multiplayer was also weaker than GH 2. Battle Mode, a mode where instead of Star Power you get powerups to activate to make your opponent fail the song, simply did not impress me. Focus should be put on who can actually play the game better, not just who can withstand effects made to make you play worse. Also, many of the difficulties were off in the game. Easy and Medium were about the same, but many of the upper level songs were more like Expert than Hard. I haven't even tried Expert, but I am going to assume that they made that much harder as well. While this may satisfy the upper 1% of extremely advanced players, players like me who found the difficulty of the second game perfect, this was simply too hard. Nevertheless, Guitar Hero 3 was a solid game with a great soundtrack and fun songs and I did like that they included real rock legends, but the feel that Neversoft put into the game simply wasn't the rockstar feel of the previous Harmonix-made game. Most of the changes that Neversoft made were for the worse, leaving a reminiscent feeling of a Harmonix developed game.

Good game, definitely worth the rent. Nothing different then the same game as the ones before, just with new songs.<br><br>Yes there are additions to the game play with the bosses and the guitar battles, but nothing new majorly.<br><br>Great new music, but the graphics are same as before, nothing new to report. Bottom line is - look up the song list and if the music there is to your liking, Rent this thang ;)

and where it's gone. It feels like this is an actual band, good times its first time out, outstanding its sophmore year.... then sells out it's third, and consequently just wants to make money afterwards instead of great music/games.<br><br>I jumped back to GH2 and found that the music was not only way better, but it really felt like you were playing a challenging Guitar list. You really felt like... DUH! a guitar hero. The point of this game was to have killer riffs, and the people at Neversoft and Activision killed that dream that Harmonix had. All this game seems to do is have double notes and long notes the whole way through. Way to get lazy guys. The "good" people behind those "let's release a Tony Hawk game every year once a year for the next 20 years" seem to be on the road to do this for GH.<br><br>Seriously, it felt like the geniuses said,"Hey, this game is catching on, come up with any song idea that you wanna see in a game and we'll see if this is possible in 3 months."<br><br>THE KILLERS?!?!?! When do u think "awesome guitar riffs" when you thing the Killers? I mean.... MY GOD!! Some of these songs seem out of left-field. I also think they paid attention to too much of the older crowd in their 30's-40's that picked up this game and cried for more oldies cause a good chunk of these songs are from the 80's (hello, that's what rock the 80's was for) this also means that much of the music blows.<br><br>Don't get me wrong, some songs are surefire classics, but I've heard these songs from the 90's a little too much on the radio already. GH 2 introduced me to some quality music.... not this game.<br><br>The only thing i'll say is this that should sum up my frustration. I'm sorry Harmonix. I should have invested in your game Rock Band instead of this garbage. You're list in music is alot more diverse and better than what GH 3 offers.<br><br>Don't be surprised if GH 4-9 come out in respective years.

I never thought I would have said this about a guitar hero game but this game was a big waste of time. This game feels like activision and neversoft just tried to hard to live up to the guitar hero standard that harmonix set up for the game. There was just to many boring songs in this game and a hand full of good songs. Some of the good songs was the two boss battles of tom morello and slash. But lets go ahead and list the good.<br><br>The good things about this game<br>The guitar battling online {even though there is jackasses mostly on there that want people to play expert instead of the level they are on.}<br>Only a hand full of songs like rage against the machine, tenacious d, weezer, muse,satana,and the rolling stones was good the rest was stupid.<br><br>The bad<br>Just about everything else int he games that I didn't list. The songs get so freaking hard its like you have to have the hands of a robot to play. Even though majority of the songs aren't cover versions they feel like they have bad charting and don't have any feeling behind them. Hence even though I was playing on hard I was trying to fall asleep.<br>Another bad point is most of the list was ripped from rock band. Both rock band and gh3 had paranoid,cherub rock , sabotage, Mississippi queen,and a few others if I'm not wrong.<br><br>But all in all I am not a hard core rock band or harmonix freak. I just didn't find this game enjoy able. except for a hand full of songs and I feel they tried to rip off some of the rock band songs and failed. I mean the charting on the songs that the two games shard was way better on rock band than on guitar hero 3. playing guitar hero 3 versions of the songs they shared was like I said boring.<br><br>Guitar hero 3 just made me not want to play any future release from never soft and activision while they have the license on this game.<br><br>So thanks a lot activision and never soft for killing a good series you bastards why don't you go back to making skateboarding games and leave the rock to the professiona

First off, the songs are just jumbled together, theres no real sense of progressing through the levels, on medium the songs are the same difficulty throughout the whole game in GH2 this was not the case, the songs seemed to get harder in the hirgher brackets.<br><br>Battle-Mode is just a waste of time, esp win you have to 'beat' a boss to progress through the game, it breaks up the flow and potiental story line [which is perfectlly short and to the point for this kind of game.<br><br>But what can i say, its still fun to rock new songs out on a fake guitar!!! And the new black finish on the new one is a nice touch. The new wireless guitar handles better and the buttons are better space, and of course its wireless!!!<br><br>Moreover, i dont think this should have been GH3 but a whole new guitar sim game, since the main development team changed. It like having a 'Mission Impossible' series that had almost nothing to do with the original tv show. Yet I degress, this is a fine game as far as guitar sim games go, though they changed basically every aspect that led people to buy the second game, not telling them that the third game is different.

this game is insaine! i love all the songs, and xbox live is sweet! you can play against real people. this is probably the best game i have ever got!

i Got Rockbad when it came out and my brother got GH3 for christmas when i tryed GH i reolized i made the right choice the guitar sucks, the buttens are to small and spaced wierd and the struming is wack, not to mention one boss battle is like a rap song that you play on the guitar?

thought if I bought Rock Band my guitar would work for guitar hero, as the guitar hero guitar works for rock band... it doesn't