Guitar Hero 3 Review
The Good: Huge replay value- you'll be coming back to this years from now, improved visuals, excellent soundtrack (my favorite of all Guitar Heroes), an extraordinary party game, pretty fun multiplayer addition online.
The Bad: Boss battles are annoying, some songs can get incredibly difficult and just plain annoying (Through the Fire and the Flames on Expert Level).
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Guitar Hero is a really popular series...if you haven't heard of it, you probably live in a box that you never come out of. Even all of the "cool" kids play this game. Yeah, Guitar Hero is a game in which you have a plastic guitar and you rock it out to all of your favorite tunes on the big screen. Basically, you look at the screen and colored keys come down at you. At the right time, you must press that key on the guitar and strum it to successfully nail it. This sounds easy, but as you move onto harder difficulties, you'll be surprised how fast things roll. There are various notes through the course of a song. Some of them are shiny....These notes are called hammer ons and pull offs. These are notes that you don't have to strum. You can just press the color key to nail them. They usually come immediately after a note that you have to strum. The other notes have a spiked shape. These notes must be all hit successfully for you to generate energy which can be activated as star power after gathering enough of it. By lifting your guitar, you can use star power, which doubles your score as you hit notes temporarily. This power is critical, especially in harder difficulties, since it oftentimes saves you from failing the song.
As you play, on the bottom right of the screen there is a thing that keeps track of how well you are doing. The red means you are about to fail, the yellow means you are playing average, and the green means you are excelling. Obviously, the more notes you hit, the better chance you have of being in the green. A cool feature in this game is the fact that it keeps track of how many notes you can consecutively nail. If you hit a hundred, a message will appear on the top of the screen saying you did that. Also, at the end of the song you play, it will tell you how much percent you completed along with your longest note streak (amount of notes consecutively played right).
The soundtrack in this game is fantastic. I really like all of the songs, and I can tolerate all of the songs...none of them are bad. The greatest part of it all is the abundance of types of rock. The music has classic artists such as The Rolling Stones and Aerosmith, as well as recent music. Even if you don't know much rock, you'll enjoy the tunes.
The game has a variety of modes, such as career, multiplayer, and quickplay. The career basically has you beat all of the songs and it is the method of unlocking all of the challenging songs found later in the game. There are also bonus songs you can get while saving up money on your career. The main annoyance in the career mode are boss battles. Although it was a cool idea, these battles are just irritating and a waste of time. You basically play a song and obtain power ups rather than star power to try to screw up the boss you are facing, which is generally a famous guitarist.
Lastly, this game has great replay value. Guitar Hero 3 offers four difficulty levels which are: easy, normal, hard, and expert. Easy involves using three keys, normal involves four, and hard/expert use all five keys. This Guitar Hero gets very hard towards the end, and it's the fastest paced one yet. Mastering all of the songs is very challenging, even if you play the guitar, but luckily there is enough things in this game to keep you interested. Overall, Guitar Hero 3 is an awesome game that should definitely go into your collection.
-Oblivion
The Bad: Boss battles are annoying, some songs can get incredibly difficult and just plain annoying (Through the Fire and the Flames on Expert Level).
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Guitar Hero is a really popular series...if you haven't heard of it, you probably live in a box that you never come out of. Even all of the "cool" kids play this game. Yeah, Guitar Hero is a game in which you have a plastic guitar and you rock it out to all of your favorite tunes on the big screen. Basically, you look at the screen and colored keys come down at you. At the right time, you must press that key on the guitar and strum it to successfully nail it. This sounds easy, but as you move onto harder difficulties, you'll be surprised how fast things roll. There are various notes through the course of a song. Some of them are shiny....These notes are called hammer ons and pull offs. These are notes that you don't have to strum. You can just press the color key to nail them. They usually come immediately after a note that you have to strum. The other notes have a spiked shape. These notes must be all hit successfully for you to generate energy which can be activated as star power after gathering enough of it. By lifting your guitar, you can use star power, which doubles your score as you hit notes temporarily. This power is critical, especially in harder difficulties, since it oftentimes saves you from failing the song.
As you play, on the bottom right of the screen there is a thing that keeps track of how well you are doing. The red means you are about to fail, the yellow means you are playing average, and the green means you are excelling. Obviously, the more notes you hit, the better chance you have of being in the green. A cool feature in this game is the fact that it keeps track of how many notes you can consecutively nail. If you hit a hundred, a message will appear on the top of the screen saying you did that. Also, at the end of the song you play, it will tell you how much percent you completed along with your longest note streak (amount of notes consecutively played right).
The soundtrack in this game is fantastic. I really like all of the songs, and I can tolerate all of the songs...none of them are bad. The greatest part of it all is the abundance of types of rock. The music has classic artists such as The Rolling Stones and Aerosmith, as well as recent music. Even if you don't know much rock, you'll enjoy the tunes.
The game has a variety of modes, such as career, multiplayer, and quickplay. The career basically has you beat all of the songs and it is the method of unlocking all of the challenging songs found later in the game. There are also bonus songs you can get while saving up money on your career. The main annoyance in the career mode are boss battles. Although it was a cool idea, these battles are just irritating and a waste of time. You basically play a song and obtain power ups rather than star power to try to screw up the boss you are facing, which is generally a famous guitarist.
Lastly, this game has great replay value. Guitar Hero 3 offers four difficulty levels which are: easy, normal, hard, and expert. Easy involves using three keys, normal involves four, and hard/expert use all five keys. This Guitar Hero gets very hard towards the end, and it's the fastest paced one yet. Mastering all of the songs is very challenging, even if you play the guitar, but luckily there is enough things in this game to keep you interested. Overall, Guitar Hero 3 is an awesome game that should definitely go into your collection.
-Oblivion
