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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.

    dimsey's Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Bundle) (Xbox 360) review

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    A welcome increase in challenge.

    Just a brief review.

    Guitar Hero 3 is a fairly by the books sequel in most respects.
    It's Guitar Hero 2. But more! And more Guitar Hero is never a bad thing.
    You should know by now whether you like Guitar Hero and whether you want more if it.

    To talk about the new stuff a bit, I guess most obvious new mode would be the Battlemode, which throws in Mario Kartesque power ups into the standard Guitar Hero game. It's not as great as it sounds.
    Winning generally comes down to whoever pulls off the power-ups first, or whoever gets the better power up cause some of them aren't as useful as others. Fortunately, if like me you don't care for this mode you'll only have to play through it 3 times in the career mode and then you can forget it.

    New set list, of course. And most of the songs are pretty good.

    I play medium, cause that damn orange fret just kills me.
    But I've still noticed an increase in difficulty from GH2 to 3.
    Which is actually a good thing. It feels faster and more like I'm actually playing the song then it did before, which only REALLY becomes apparent after you play GH3 awhile and then go back to GH2.
    It feels PAINFULLY slow in comparison to 3.
    I guess you'll either welcome the added difficulty or loathe it, but it's a welcome change for me, who wants it to be harder but can't master that damn orange fret

    Also added is a co-op career mode, which in my oppinion is probably better than the single player career if only because you don't have to play the damned battlemode, but really the game is a lot more fun with a friend.
    And if you don't have friends you can play online now, which is another added bonus.

    Winding up, if you like Guitar Hero you'll want to pick this up and you'll have a blast with it. If you didn't like any before it a tacked on battle mode and a jump in difficulty probably won't change your mind.

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      This is the third installment of the Guitar Hero gaming series...It's a pretty good game, though just a bit behind II in the music range but there's enough to make up for it. If you ever played any of the other Guitar Hero games...then this is not too much of a difference other than online play but the soundtrack is still pretty good especially with exclusives like the Halo theme song that will give you both a laugh and also great feel for an addition. It isn't as great as Guitar Hero II's sou...

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      I'm going to start this review, by taking you back to pre-release. Guitar Hero fans were going nuts, thought it looked awesome.Well, the day of the release it basically said BOOM and every single copy was sold. Even the ones without a guitar, gone. But, I got a hold of one since one store was smart enough to atleast buy in several without a guitar. So, I was happy with that. But, I couldn't play the game. It wouldn't get past the intro, after the intro it would instantly freeze. Well, I went bac...

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