Guitar Hero 3: Mini Review

Guitar Hero 3 in the next installment of a very successful game once known as Simon says (just kidding...sort of). This next installment finally brings multi-player to a game that should have had in version 2 and now has boss battles. Alright here goes the rant so fan-boys avert your eyes or just skip down to the end of the post.

First off, Boss battles! Seriously this is the new innovation in Guitar Hero? Having players face off against legends and pretend to have that kind of skill? The reason why their legends is because no one else has that kind of skill. Now personally I think the game concept of a boss battle is over played and really should be put to rest with only a handful of exceptions (God of War comes to mind). The rest of the games out there could do just fine with out it. The song sets are a bit inconsistent in tempo and don't really keep up the same kind of energy. I thought I was going to fall a sleep after playing through the first couple of sets, sure there are a couple of very good songs in the early sets, but the rest of the songs seem to drag on. My next issue is the same issue I had with the second installment the wide spread in difficulties, transitioning from easy to medium takes a good amount of time if you haven't played before. And transitioning from anything from pretty much any level to the next is just painful (I had a metaphor for this but I'll spare you the gruesome details). My last complaint is actually pretty small, the integration of online multi-player is great but should have been in Guitar Hero 2. Now I haven't really had a chance to mess with it too much so the multi-player portion of this review doesn't exist.

Alright now on to what I like, the game is finally out on all consoles including the Wii, I just wished that some one would have done more with its motion sensors ( I really wanted to see my guitarist swing his guitar around). This in my opinion is version of the game has the strongest song line up with music from The Killers, Rage Against the Machine, Guns 'n Roses, and other big name bands. Overall the game hasn't gone away from its original winning formula, which is make gamers feel like actual rock stars. I'm pretty sure the only other way to enhance this experience is to have a groupie sold with each copy of the game (drug addiction and other rock cliches sold separately). Bottom line is the game is still fun and has tons of replay ability. So if you're a fan of the series or think you would be go pick this one up otherwise see if you can go over to a friends hows and rock out on their system.