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    Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

    Game » consists of 15 releases. Released Oct 28, 2007

    The fourth installment of the series (Guitar Hero: Rock the 80's being the 3rd) that single handedly revitalized the music-game genre, Guitar Hero III retains the core gameplay of its predecessors while delivering a more challenging experience.

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    Two years ago, Harmonix popularized the music genre with a masterpiece called Guitar Hero. Two years later, they have left the series to work on bigger (and possibly better) things, with the Guitar Hero franchise going to Neversoft. A company most famous for the Tony Hawk Games.

    Neversoft kept the gameplay mostly the same. It is still meant to be played with a mini-guitar. It has five colored buttons on it. One green, one red, one yellow, one blue, and one orange. On Easy, you only use the green, red, and yellow buttons. On Medium, you use the green, red, yellow, and blue buttons. On Hard and Expert, you use all of them. As the colored note scrolls down the screen, you press that color and press the strum bar. Sometimes you will have to press more than one at the same time or you will have to hold the button down. For the latter, you can use the Whammy-Bar to change how it sounds. The only thing changed is that you have a little extra time to hit a note.

    There is also multiplayer. One multiplayer mode is co-op career. Which is basically the same as single player career but with two people and with some songs you couldn't get in single player. Another is Face-off which is a head-to-head rock-off. Pro Face-off is the same thing except you get the same number of notes instead of trading off parts. There is also a new mode called Battle Mode. This is like Face-off, but instead of getting star power you get different power-ups for hitting note streaks. These are used to make your opponent screw up and fail the song. It wouldn't be a Guitar Hero game without awesome music, and GH3 doesn't disappoint. With great songs like "Evenflow," "Rock and Roll All Night," "My Name Is Jonas," "Cult of Personality," "Anarchy In The U.K," and more. Many of which are the original Master Tracks. Living Color and The Sex Pistols even rerecorded "Cult of Personality," and "Anarchy in the U.K," respectfully for the game. No Zepplin or AC/DC though. And the lack of online for the PS2 version means no chance of them as Downloadable Content.

    The game has good graphics, but most of your attention will go to the track. Except that the singer looks really creepy. Due to the the number of songs, four difficulty levels, multi-player, and the huge amount of of unlockable content, you can spend a lot of time playing this. 

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      As the developer and publisher of the first two games (and the 80's expansion) were split and gobbled up by different companies, a new team gained control of creating the enjoyable rhythm series, and the results aren't quite what you'd hope for. There's nothing about the third installment changed so much as to hurt the core gameplay, it just seems every single new decision Neversoft made was a bad one. The graphics received an overhaul, with new, shinier character models and notes on the fretboa...

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