If you liked the previous Guitar Hero games, then you should like this one. Because it is the exact same!
Gameplay: I'll just start with what Guitar Hero is about, for those of you who do not know. Basically you use a plastic guitar with a flicky thing (?) where you strum and 5 coloured buttons for the 'fret board'. You basically hold down the coloured buttons on the guitar to match the coloured 'gems' that are coming down the screen. When the 'gems' come down to the line at the bottom of the screen, you 'strum' the flicky thing and it plays the 'note'. You continue to do this for each series of gems until the end of the song. The gameplay for this has been the same over 4 games! I'm not kidding. The only thing that is different among the games is the playlist and the multiplayer which only changed on this game.
Difficulty: There are 4 difficulties. Easy, Medium, Hard and Expert. Easy is really slow and you only use the first 3 coloured buttons. Medium is a little faster and uses 4 buttons. Hard is faster and uses all 5 buttons. Expert is really fast and uses all 5 buttons. There's only one problem with this. The jump from Medium to Hard might be a bit much at first but you will get used to it. I don't know about Expert because I've only been able to do 2 songs on Expert.
Graphics: The graphics are alright, I guess. It just doesn't really matter since you're looking at the 'fret board' on the screen the entire time.
Sound: The playlist in this game is just awesome! In the previous games there was probably only one song I have heard before. In this one I've heard of most of the songs. The sound that comes out when you play are the actual recordings of the song so no remixs. Thank god!
Content: I'll just describe what is in the game. There are 42 songs and about 20 songs you buy in the in-game store. You start off with 8 characters (I think) and you unlock a further 4 including a robot. How awesome! There are a countless number of unlockable guitars including a Guitar Hero controller. There's a lot of content in this game but since this is the PS2 version there's no online store for more songs.
Final Note: Buy this game if you don't own the originals. If you do, try renting.
sorry to burst your bubble, but your advertisement as this being the "Exact same" as the other guitar hero's is misleading, at best. First off, the sensitivity to when you can hit the notes was tweaked, to be more forgiving on some of the particularly brutal hammer on sequences. That being said, GH3 is the easiest out of the Guitar Hero games. Also, you completely skipped over the battle mode, which was brand new inclusion for the game.
I mention this, because I feel that they are the only things actually worth bringing up about this game, and I was totally thrown off gaurd when I saw you didn't include them.
Other than that, it was ok. My best advice is to just keep working at it.
The difficulty in GH3 is as sporadic as an eight year old on coffee and caffiene pills, if not dead and twitching. Even up to hard the game finds itself giving you just enough space to get a good 89% of the notes, all the time, always, at a minimum. However on Expert, the ridonkulous hammer on solos, that are completely not anywhere close to how the song is actually played make the game nearly impossible on the expert. How the hell do people beat it? I can play most of the songs on expert at x5 speed, but I can't beat the damn last tier.
Onto your review, it was short, sweet, to the point, and informative, even if you were a little light on the multiplayer. Good stuff.
I think you could get away with increasing your word count on your next review. It didn't tell me anything I didn't know already, although that's not entirely your fault as I do own the game. Your recommendation at the end baffles me too, rent it if I own the originals, but buy it if I don't? Surely it would make sense to just buy the originals, by which I assume you're referring to the two Harmonix guitar heroes. Put a bit more of yourself into your next review, tell us your favourite song (if it happens to be pertinent), go into more detail and for heaven's sake stop putting quotes round words that don't need them. "Note" is not a weird word, nor is "strum".
Incidentally, the flicky thing is called a strum bar, and Yahtzee is not Australian.
Incidentally, the flicky thing is called a strum bar, and Yahtzee is not Australian.
Well that raises a question--since all Australians, excepting Aboriginees, are from England as ex-convicts, wouldn't that make Australians really Englishman? For that matter, an Englishman living in Australia isn't really any different from an Australian, so wouldn't that make him an Australian? Additionally, if Yahtzee has citizenship in Australia, he IS Australian, even if he was naturally born in England. But, if he doesn't have an Australian citizenship thingy, then he's still an Englishman livin amongst other Englishman who just live in another country, or is he an Australian living amongst Australians but only thinks he's English because he is from England?
Incidentally, the flicky thing is called a strum bar, and Yahtzee is not Australian.
Well that raises a question--since all Australians, excepting Aboriginees, are from England as ex-convicts, wouldn't that make Australians really Englishman? For that matter, an Englishman living in Australia isn't really any different from an Australian, so wouldn't that make him an Australian? Additionally, if Yahtzee has citizenship in Australia, he IS Australian, even if he was naturally born in England. But, if he doesn't have an Australian citizenship thingy, then he's still an Englishman livin amongst other Englishman who just live in another country, or is he an Australian living amongst Australians but only thinks he's English because he is from England?
Hold on, I need a pen and paper.
I was born in Australia so I automatically got citizenship. Yay!
nilcypher: I go by a simple rule. If you were born in Australia, then you are Australian. If not, you're not.
So what about immigrants who proudly fly the australian flag? happy to be out of their war-ridden countries, they sure as hell think they are australian. i think they deserve that right.
also, given that Yahtzee has citizenship here, he is australian, and british, even if he favors one over the other.
nilcypher: I go by a simple rule. If you were born in Australia, then you are Australian. If not, you're not.
My little sister was born in Japan. Does that make her Japanese?
Bruce Lee was not born in America, but it was his greatest pride in being an American. Are you saying one of the most influencial kung-fu masters was living a lie?
nilcypher: I go by a simple rule. If you were born in Australia, then you are Australian. If not, you're not.
My little sister was born in Japan. Does that make her Japanese?
Bruce Lee was not born in America, but it was his greatest pride in being an American. Are you saying one of the most influencial kung-fu masters was living a lie?
Ok, you've got me on that one.
EDIT: Although I think I'm being taken a little bit too literally for what was initially a throw away statement.
Well this has gone a bit far of topic so let at least try to snap it back into shape. Good review while it seems very rushed almost no mention of the multiplayer modes and on your final scores the difficulty is too high for me but keep trying.
nilcypher: I go by a simple rule. If you were born in Australia, then you are Australian. If not, you're not.
My little sister was born in Japan. Does that make her Japanese?
Bruce Lee was not born in America, but it was his greatest pride in being an American. Are you saying one of the most influencial kung-fu masters was living a lie?
Ok, you've got me on that one.
EDIT: Although I think I'm being taken a little bit too literally for what was initially a throw away statement.
Don't throw away statements. They last a long time and can be replanted to make statement trees for all the little boys and girls to tie tires to the branches.
nilcypher: I go by a simple rule. If you were born in Australia, then you are Australian. If not, you're not.
My little sister was born in Japan. Does that make her Japanese?
Bruce Lee was not born in America, but it was his greatest pride in being an American. Are you saying one of the most influencial kung-fu masters was living a lie?
Ok, you've got me on that one.
EDIT: Although I think I'm being taken a little bit too literally for what was initially a throw away statement.
Don't throw away statements. They last a long time and can be replanted to make statement trees for all the little boys and girls to tie tires to the branches.
Incidentally, the flicky thing is called a strum bar, and Yahtzee is not Australian.
Well that raises a question--since all Australians, excepting Aboriginees, are from England as ex-convicts, wouldn't that make Australians really Englishman? For that matter, an Englishman living in Australia isn't really any different from an Australian, so wouldn't that make him an Australian? Additionally, if Yahtzee has citizenship in Australia, he IS Australian, even if he was naturally born in England. But, if he doesn't have an Australian citizenship thingy, then he's still an Englishman livin amongst other Englishman who just live in another country, or is he an Australian living amongst Australians but only thinks he's English because he is from England?
Hold on, I need a pen and paper.
Hey, what about other migrants? You know, not ex-convicts and the like.
And as for the review, I really think that nilcypher said what I want to say: increase your review's length, expand on your points, and include things such as multiplayer.
Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock (PS2)
By shaun832
If you liked the previous Guitar Hero games, then you should like this one. Because it is the exact same!
Gameplay: I'll just start with what Guitar Hero is about, for those of you who do not know. Basically you use a plastic guitar with a flicky thing (?) where you strum and 5 coloured buttons for the 'fret board'. You basically hold down the coloured buttons on the guitar to match the coloured 'gems' that are coming down the screen. When the 'gems' come down to the line at the bottom of the screen, you 'strum' the flicky thing and it plays the 'note'. You continue to do this for each series of gems until the end of the song.
The gameplay for this has been the same over 4 games! I'm not kidding. The only thing that is different among the games is the playlist and the multiplayer which only changed on this game.
Difficulty: There are 4 difficulties. Easy, Medium, Hard and Expert. Easy is really slow and you only use the first 3 coloured buttons. Medium is a little faster and uses 4 buttons. Hard is faster and uses all 5 buttons. Expert is really fast and uses all 5 buttons. There's only one problem with this. The jump from Medium to Hard might be a bit much at first but you will get used to it. I don't know about Expert because I've only been able to do 2 songs on Expert.
Graphics: The graphics are alright, I guess. It just doesn't really matter since you're looking at the 'fret board' on the screen the entire time.
Sound: The playlist in this game is just awesome! In the previous games there was probably only one song I have heard before. In this one I've heard of most of the songs. The sound that comes out when you play are the actual recordings of the song so no remixs. Thank god!
Content: I'll just describe what is in the game. There are 42 songs and about 20 songs you buy in the in-game store. You start off with 8 characters (I think) and you unlock a further 4 including a robot. How awesome! There are a countless number of unlockable guitars including a Guitar Hero controller. There's a lot of content in this game but since this is the PS2 version there's no online store for more songs.
Final Note: Buy this game if you don't own the originals. If you do, try renting.
Gameplay: 7/10
Difficulty: 8/10
Graphics: 7/10
Sound: 10/10
Content: 9/10
Final Score: 8/10