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| From: Activision Inc.
Category: Video Games
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $44.95
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New (18) Used (5) from $38.16
Avg. Customer Rating:  101 reviews
Sales Rank: 78
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Wireless bundle
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.5
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 95123
Model: 95123
UPC: 047875951235
EAN: 0047875951235
ASIN: B000TG531G
Release Date: October 28, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Only a little disappointing. November 3, 2007
Obviously, if you liked GH2, you'll like GH3, there's not a whole lot you can do to screw up Guitar Hero, while having it still be Guitar Hero.
At first, all i heard about GH3 was this new battle mode, i thought it looked dumb and i kept hearing that it was dumb. I actually like it alot, some battles last only 30 seconds, but others you can battle it out until sudden death.
There are alot of big hit songs, though not alot that i personally like. The unlockable songs are a bunch of goofy songs, including some foreign ones (most of them are bands you've never heard of, save for Killswitch Engage, In Flames, Rise Against, etc.). The songs in career i thought were really easy, i didnt fail once until the second to last set, but managed to beat it and not have any trouble until the last set. In the last set i beat all but Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast and Slayer's Raining Blood. The Number of the Beast only took me about 5 tries, but Raining Blood i COULD NOT beat, i had to have a friend beat it for me, and it still took him about 10 tries (and he even has 4-5 stars on most of expert career).
So basically, the songs are all really easy until the last 2 sets, then it becomes ridiculously hard, but coop play is still there and it's still a great game to play alone or with a friend.
An Axe to Grind November 3, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is so much fun to play. It has a nice selection of songs (what, no Stooges?!) including newer and older stuff. The one thing I don't like about it is that being a guitar player, I know a bunch of these songs and had to fight against tendencies to play it the way I would play it. I suspect any guitar player who knows these songs will have the same issue with it. In fact, this is the only reason I didn't give this 5 out of 5. It's enough of a problem to throw me off here and there, but not enough of a problem to get in the way of me diggin this game. Over all it's a great, enjoyable game and even more fun with friends. Everyone will be pleased to remember the subtle charms of Poison's "Talk Dirty To Me" or will realize their ultimate destruction trying to master Slayer's "Raining Blood." Curiously missing from this game is Ozzy, The Stooges, Van Halen and Motorhead...and would it be asking too much for some Blue Cheer?
 Main complaints against GH3 November 3, 2007
16 out of 23 found this review helpful
Ok, so I am bound to get some strife about this but please here me out.
I love Guitar Hero. It is a wonderful game that allows me to play songs that I could never play on guitar. But I think Guitar Hero 3 "Legends of Rock" has a few BIG mistakes....
First off, not enough 'legends of rock'. Where are AC/DC? Thin Lizzy? David Bowie? Hendrix? Why were they left out? To make place for the many 2006 song releases by groups like AFI. Come on. Sorry, AFI, Weezer, and Muse are not 'legends of rock'. You can't be a legend of rock if your band is 10 years old. Sorry.
Second, the sell out factor! AXE Bodyspray guitars and a Pontiac Truck Bed for a music shoot? Come on. This would be fine if the career mode hadn't made it a point to shun on 'selling out'.
Lastly, and most important *PEOPLE TAKE NOTICE* the controls are much more sensitive. So much so that I went back to GH1 and GH2 to make sure my controller wasn't broken. You can not hard strum any longer. You are now forced to leave your finger on the strum key....period. If you strum just a bit too hard it will count as a double hit. Horrible. How can you rock out if your hand must rest CONSTANTLY on the guitar?
Other then that the game is excellent. I just hope ROCKBAND has less sensitive controls. If it doesn't, I won't be buying it.
Still the same Guitar Hero, but with some great additions November 1, 2007
46 out of 46 found this review helpful
Guitar Hero 3 (GH3) is the fourth iteration in this series of games despite it being labeled the third, though for most people the 80s edition that was the actual third game was a bit of a footnote since it only came out on PS2 and had very little in it that differed from Guitar Hero 2 other than the songs.
GH3 continues with the same basic formula as the previous games which will keep fans of the series happy, but at the same time adds some welcome new features. One of the best additions is that of online play so that you can now do co-op, face-off, pro face-off and battle mode with a friend over the Live network.
The battle mode is a change up from the normal face-off modes in that instead of gaining star power you acquire attacks from playing certain sequences of notes. Then when you turn the guitar up as if you were going to use star power it instead launches an attack at your opponent. The attacks vary in their nastiness and while I was skeptical of this new aspect of the game it's actually a nice twist for those more competitive players.
Another addition is the co-op career mode, but unfortunately you can't play this mode online which means you'll have to get a friend over with their guitar to experience this mode.
Speaking of the guitar the new wireless Gibson Les Paul style guitar controller is a welcome change from the original 360 GH2 controller. Overall it just feels a lot more solid, especially the whammy bar. Not being wired makes a big difference in terms of convenience. There are GH3 bundles out there with the original GH2 controller in them and I would recommend passing on those in favor of the wireless bundle.
The career mode remains mostly the same as in the previous games. There are now little animated vignettes between each set that don't add much to the overall experience, but certainly are a welcome change from the old bus driving across the country scenes in the previous games. The other addition to career mode is that at the end of certain sets you have to enter battle mode with another guitarist. By now most people know that Tom Morello and Slash are the two real guitarists who you battle against in the game. Both contributed original guitar compositions for their battle sections and can be unlocked as avatars in the game.
The playing experience itself is much the same, though it seems the game is even more forgiving in the timing of when you play notes than even GH2 was and hammer-ons and pull-offs are also very easy to do. For experienced players this will obviously make the game easier in some respects, but at the same time the note structure has been mixed up a bit and the later songs are pretty challenging on Hard and Expert.
While the multiplayer aspect adds a lot more playability to the game at the same time the core of the experience remains the songs and for this game there are even more original songs than before and the song list is pretty great.
Overall GH3 rocks the house in much the same way as the previous games, but with the addition of some new features it doesn't feel like more of the same. Multiplayer adds a new aspect that should give the game a lot more life overall between those times when you get your friends over to the house.
Here is the list of tracks by the original artists (or in the case of Talk Dirty to Me, original vocalist) used in the game. This doesn't include the bonus tracks by the less well known artists.
"Talk Dirty to Me" - Poison (Vocals re-recorded by Bret Michaels)
"Bulls on Parade" - Rage Against the Machine
"When You Were Young" - The Killers
"Miss Murder" - AFI
"Lay Down" - Priestess
"Paint It, Black" - The Rolling Stones
"Anarchy in the U.K." - Sex Pistols (re-recorded)
"Kool Thing" - Sonic Youth
"My Name Is Jonas" - Weezer
"Even Flow" - Pearl Jam
"Same Old Song and Dance" - Aerosmith
"Welcome to the Jungle" - Guns N' Roses
"Cherub Rock" - The Smashing Pumpkins
"The Metal" - Tenacious D
"Before I Forget" - Slipknot
"Stricken" - Disturbed
"3's & 7's" - Queens of the Stone Age
"Knights of Cydonia" - Muse
"Cult of Personality" - Living Colour (re-recorded)
"Raining Blood" - Slayer
"The Number of the Beast" - Iron Maiden
"One" - Metallica
--Co-Op Campaign--
"Sabotage" - Beastie Boys
"Reptilia" - The Strokes
"Suck My Kiss" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Helicopter" - Bloc Party
"Monsters" - Matchbook Romance
 OMG Killswitch engage unlockable my curse October 31, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
this game is outstanding!!!! has me up all night playing my curse by killswitch engage after unlocking it i cant stop playing it... the boss battles are fun and challenging. slash is a tough one even on medium.
the game has changed graphics wise from 2 it doesnt look as cartoony as it did...all in all i had to give this 5 stars for the wide selection of good songs to include some: miss murder by afi, welcome to the jungle by guns and roses, schools out and many more. this game will have you playing the songs in your head all day.. i highly recommend this game for anyone who loved 1 and 2.
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