Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is a video game that consists of 12 releases
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In addition to the celebrity characters, fictional guitarists from the first two Guitar Hero games also make their return. Joining them is newcomer Midori, representing the J-Pop music genre. Despite these additions, some characters did not make it into the game. Goth rocker Pandora, rockabilly Eddie Knox and classic rocker Clive Winston were all absent from this entry into the franchise. They are spiritually represented in some of the in-game characters, as Judy Nails' bio states she also represents the goth/rockabilly sub-genres (her costume palette swaps also changes her hair/makeup color to resemble that of Pandora's) and Xavier Stone had been tweaked to be the game's classic rock representative as well.
Each initial character has two costumes. Each costume has a set of palette-swaps that can be purchased from the in game store. Each palette swamp not only changes their specific costume's color, but changes certain accessories/designs as well.
Initial Character List
Unlockable Characters (Purchased in the in-game store)
Non-Playable Characters
In Co-op one player plays the lead guitar section of the song whereas the other player plays Rhythm Guitar or Bass (depending on the song). Both players must work together to try and complete the song and both players must tilt the guitar at the same time to activate Star-Power.
When Guitar Hero III launched on October 28, 2007, many gamers were overwhelmed by the steep increase in difficulty over previous entries in the series. While the first few tiers of songs were manageable to series veterans, the later songs in the game such as Slayer's "Raining Blood", Metallica's "One", and the final boss battle with Lou all proved to be some of the most challenging songs in the series to date. All of those songs, however, would pale in comparison to the Dragonforce song "Through the Fire and Flames", which many players were quick to bill as the most difficult song the series had ever seen.
Not only were the songs difficult, the Xbox 360 achievements were noticably harder to obtain and carried less value per achievement than Guitar Hero II's. Among the criteria for earning the achievements were "Beating Through the Fire and Flames on expert", "Winning 500 online matches", "Earn 750,000 points on a single song in single player", and "Earn a 2,000 note streak" in the game's co-op mode.
The PC version of Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock suffers from noticeable graphic stuttering in-game*. This problem only affects Nvidia based graphic cards**. Fortunately, those with ATI graphic cards*** experience no such stuttering. Even with patch 1.31, the graphic stuttering with Nvidia based graphic cards still exist.
*- Fraps was used to view on-screen FPS and although both Nvidia and ATI based gpus performed at 60fps, the Nvidia based gpu lagged from time to time. **- Tested on Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS g92 512mb and on Nvidia Geforce 9800 GTX g92 512mb. ***- Tested on ATI Radeon 3870 and ATI Radeon 3870 crossfire.
Hero players, the detachable neck has led to many reported problems. Due to connection failures many of the guitars will often lose the connection at points and will be unable to register certain frets when pressed down. This is because the neck will randomly slide out very slightly and render the frets unusable until it's pushed back in again. Some solutions have been offered, such as the note card solution in which an index card is cut to fit onto the back of the slot the guitar neck slides into. This minimizes the space the neck can move and creates a better connection, however no solution is perfect.
The fourth installment of the series that single handedly revitalized the music-game genre, Guitar Hero III retains the core gameplay of its predecessors while delivering a more challenging experience.
Overview
Released in 2007 by Neversoft and Activision, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock brought the addictive gameplay of the original two games to a wide variety of platforms. Just as in previous Guitar Hero games, players control the game by using a guitar-shaped controller, and use the strum bar while holding down appropriately colored fret buttons to strike notes as they scroll to the bottom of the screen. Guitar Hero III maintains the previous modes of gameplay from the earlier games (Career Mode and Co-op career mode), and introduces Battle Model, which tweaks the Battle Power sequences of Guitar Hero II by allowing players to earn attacks through superior performance that they can use against their opponent.Characters
For the first time in the Guitar Hero franchise, GHIII saw the inclusion of real-world celebrities. A huge addition was the inclusion of Slash (Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver) and Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine, Adioslave). Brett Michaels also makes an appearance in the game (excluding the Wii and PS2 version). Each had their faces scanned and did their own motion capture work for the game. As well, each of the celebrity guitarists recorded their own original guitar pieces to be played during a guitar duel against them in career mode.
Tom Morello
In addition to the celebrity characters, fictional guitarists from the first two Guitar Hero games also make their return. Joining them is newcomer Midori, representing the J-Pop music genre. Despite these additions, some characters did not make it into the game. Goth rocker Pandora, rockabilly Eddie Knox and classic rocker Clive Winston were all absent from this entry into the franchise. They are spiritually represented in some of the in-game characters, as Judy Nails' bio states she also represents the goth/rockabilly sub-genres (her costume palette swaps also changes her hair/makeup color to resemble that of Pandora's) and Xavier Stone had been tweaked to be the game's classic rock representative as well.
Each initial character has two costumes. Each costume has a set of palette-swaps that can be purchased from the in game store. Each palette swamp not only changes their specific costume's color, but changes certain accessories/designs as well.
Initial Character List
Unlockable Characters (Purchased in the in-game store)
- Tom Morello
- Slash
- Lou
- God of Rock (PS3/360 Exclusive Character)
- Grim Ripper (PS3/360 Exclusive Character)
- Metalhead (PS2/Wii Exclusive Character)
- Elroy Budvis (PS2/Wii Exclusive Character)
Non-Playable Characters
Online Multiplayer Modes
Guitar Hero III has four online multiplayer modes.Face-Off
In Face-Off both players choose a difficulty level and each play various sections of the same song. The winner is the player at the end who has the most points. The game is balanced so that a player on a lower difficulty can still win. The player with the lower difficulty is given the easier win because they get more points for their notes as they hit them.Pro Face-Off
In Pro Face-Off players play the whole song on the same difficulty. The winner is the player who has the higher score at the end of the song.Co-op
Co-op Gameplay
In Co-op one player plays the lead guitar section of the song whereas the other player plays Rhythm Guitar or Bass (depending on the song). Both players must work together to try and complete the song and both players must tilt the guitar at the same time to activate Star-Power. 
Co-op Gameplay
Battle
In a Battle both players play the whole song but both may choose their own difficulty level. Instead of star power players are rewarded with 'attacks' for hitting sections of special notes. These attacks can then be used to cripple their opponents. The winner is the player that does not lose. Sudden Death will occur when both players pass the song in Battle Mode. The player's current Rock Meter stays the same and they keep any unused attacks but all further attacks are replaced with the 'death drain'. Once activated the 'death drain' will fast begin to drain the opponents note chart, eventually covering up all of the notes thus making the opponent lose.Setlist
Tier 1
- Foghat - "Slow Ride" *
- Poison - "Talk Dirty To Me" (Cover, vocals re-recorded by Bret Michaels)
- Pat Benatar - "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" *
- Social Distortion - "Story of My Life" *
- Kiss - "Rock and Roll All Nite" *
Tier 2
- Mountain - "Mississippi Queen" *
- Alice Cooper - "School's Out" *
- Cream - "Sunshine of Your Love" *
- Heart - "Barracuda" *
- Rage Against the Machine - "Bulls on Parade"
Tier 3
- The Killers - "When You Were Young"
- AFI - "Miss Murder"
- The Who - "The Seeker" *
- Priestess - "Lay Down"
- The Rolling Stones - "Paint it Black"
Tier 4
- Black Sabbath - "Paranoid" *
- Sex Pistols - "Anarchy in the U.K." **
- Sonic Youth - "Kool Thing"
- Weezer - "My Name is Jonas"
- Pearl Jam - "Even Flow"
Tier 5
- Dead Kennedys - "Holiday in Cambodia" *
- Scorpions - "Rock You Like a Hurricane" *
- Aerosmith - "Same Old Song and Dance"
- ZZ Top - "La Grange" *
- Guns N' Roses - "Welcome to the Jungle"
Tier 6
- Santana - "Black Magic Woman' *
- The Smashing Pumpkins - "Cherub Rock"
- White Zombie - "Black Sunshine" *
- Tenacious D - "The Metal"
- Stevie Ray Vaughan - "Pride and Joy" *
Tier 7
- Slipknot - "Before I Forget"
- Disturbed - "Stricken"
- Queens of the Stone Age - "3's & 7's"
- Muse - "Knights of Cydonia"
- Living Colour - "Cult of Personality" **
Tier 8
- Slayer - "Raining Blood"
- Eric Johnson - "Cliffs of Dover" *
- Iron Maiden - "The Number of the Beast"
- Metallica - "One"
Co-op Encores
- Beastie Boys - "Sabotage"
- The Strokes - "Reptilia"
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Suck My Kiss"
- Blue Oyster Cult - "Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll" *
- Bloc Party - "Helicopter"
- Matchbook Romance - "Monsters"
Bonus Songs
- Héroes del Silencio - "Avalancha"
Guitar Hero 3 Poster - Senses Fail - "Can't Be Saved"
- Lacuna Coil - "Closer"
- The Sleeping - "Don't Hold Back"
- LA Slum Lords - "Down 'N Dirty"
- The Fall of Troy - "F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X."
- Revolverheld - "Generation Rock"
- Bret Michaels Band - "Go That Far"
- Die Toten Hosen - "Hier Kommt Alex"
- Hellacopters - "I'm in the Band"
- An Endless Sporadic - "Impulse"
- Scouts of St. Sebastian - "In Love"
- Gallows - "In the Belly of a Shark"
- Naast - "Mauvais Garçon"
- Lions - "Metal Heavy Lady"
- Backyard Babies - "Minus Celcius"
- Killswitch Engage - "My Curse"
- Dope - "Nothing for Me Here"
- Rise Against - "Prayer of the Refugee"
- Superbus - "Radio Song"
- Kaiser Chiefs - "Ruby"
- The Stone Roses - "She Bangs the Drums" *
- In Flames - "Take This Life"
- Prototype - "The Way it Ends"
- Dragonforce - "Through the Fire and Flames"
Difficulty
When Guitar Hero III launched on October 28, 2007, many gamers were overwhelmed by the steep increase in difficulty over previous entries in the series. While the first few tiers of songs were manageable to series veterans, the later songs in the game such as Slayer's "Raining Blood", Metallica's "One", and the final boss battle with Lou all proved to be some of the most challenging songs in the series to date. All of those songs, however, would pale in comparison to the Dragonforce song "Through the Fire and Flames", which many players were quick to bill as the most difficult song the series had ever seen.
Not only were the songs difficult, the Xbox 360 achievements were noticably harder to obtain and carried less value per achievement than Guitar Hero II's. Among the criteria for earning the achievements were "Beating Through the Fire and Flames on expert", "Winning 500 online matches", "Earn 750,000 points on a single song in single player", and "Earn a 2,000 note streak" in the game's co-op mode.
PC Graphics Problem
The PC version of Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock suffers from noticeable graphic stuttering in-game*. This problem only affects Nvidia based graphic cards**. Fortunately, those with ATI graphic cards*** experience no such stuttering. Even with patch 1.31, the graphic stuttering with Nvidia based graphic cards still exist.
*- Fraps was used to view on-screen FPS and although both Nvidia and ATI based gpus performed at 60fps, the Nvidia based gpu lagged from time to time. **- Tested on Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS g92 512mb and on Nvidia Geforce 9800 GTX g92 512mb. ***- Tested on ATI Radeon 3870 and ATI Radeon 3870 crossfire.
Guitar Problems
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock shipped with the Gibson Les Paul controller. This guitar featured a new, smoother fret board as well as a detachable neck. While the new fretboard has led it to be the guitar peripheral of choice for the competitive Guitar
There are some problems with the Les Paul controller.
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