Developer: Neversoft
Publisher: RedOctane / Activision
Screenshots: Available here
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Review:

It’s the musical icon of gaming and it’s back for more.  This time all the legends are coming out to bring all the dreams of would-be rockers to light.  Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock continues with the musical magic that fans have come to know and love.  If it ain’t broke then why bother fixing it is what I say.  Are you ready to rock this review?

Gameplay, Graphics and Sound

Guitar Hero III does all of the same things it’s been great at over the years and adds a few things to keep itself fresh until the next launch in the series.  Your fret buttons, activating Star Power, strumming and all out shredding are still in.  Plus, you now have a battle mode and a co-op career to enjoy.  The co-op career has songs unavailable in single play so be sure to grab a friend and play through it.  The best part is that you can do all this online for the first time as well!  I’ll have more on that in Xbox Live Extras.   

The battle mode is a hectic one on one battle against a friend to see who can cause the other to completely melt down first.  The object of the mode is to finish your competition as quickly as possible by rockin’ them out.  You do this with certain power-ups given when completing a set of strings.  Activating each power-up is just like activating Star Power (raise your guitar).  You can activate a lefty flip to screw up those right handed players, give them a power overload or cause double button vision etc.  It’s some hectic fun.