Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Review
Developer: Neversoft
Publisher: RedOctane / Activision
Screenshots: Available here
Rating Guide: How I Review Games
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.
December 29th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
I agree 100%! This game also got me into Rock. My sis has a guitar under my bed that she hasn’t used in years, I think I might try to use google to learn how to play it lol. Once I have enough pennies I’m gonna buy this game, I rented it for a while but that wasn’t enough!
December 29th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
“The Metal” is one of my favourite songs aswell. but i love Generation Rock by Revolverheld, Nothing for me here by Dope, Prayer of the Refugee by Rise against, and ofcourse slipknot disturbed and dragonforce too.
So i dont really agree on the bit about the last song not really that great. But that might be just me
December 29th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
The last song is great but it’s hard as hell O_O. Watch the dragon force video here http://youtube.com/watch?v=3u3FVdKe_Uw and look at the part when they show the dudes playing the guitar…..am I the only one that gets dizzy from watching that part? XD
December 29th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Forgot to add, it’s 3 minutes into the video.
December 29th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Played the demo and liked it. Played the other brand at a friends and beat it with my sister-in-laws daughter. Got her hooked on the game. She was smack talking me at first and said, beware… your up next.
December 29th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
It’s good, but in my opinion Rock Band is 1000 times better…
December 29th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
I need 3 more songs to 5 star expert
December 30th, 2007 at 1:06 am
This is by far the best review you’ve done. I agree with pretty much everything in your review. There needs to be more DLC for this game as well. I’m enjoying the RB DLC songs more than GH3 DLC songs.
December 30th, 2007 at 2:54 am
Rock Band just seems to “know how to pick’em.” The songs released on Christmas pretty much all rocked. lol… but what do I care, I don’t own GHIII or RockBand!
Still, excellent review, Deac. Extremely thorough.
December 30th, 2007 at 3:43 am
@all, thx. i try my best to entertain.
glad you all enjoyed reading it.
December 30th, 2007 at 11:30 am
I love GH3 as well, but my only complaints are the achievements are stupid hard and the boss battles are the suck…other than that though, the GP, co-op carreer and the track lists are awesome..
great review DB….
December 30th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Good review. My only minor complaint is that you cant do coop career online
but I guess that’s what GH4 will offer heh 
December 30th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Good review, Deac. I want this game so badly but every place is sold out.