Guitar Hero 3 - Legends of Rock Review

This is my first plunge into the music gaming genre. The main reason I bought this game was to get the guitar controller. From reviews I've read and advice from friends and in-store staff, the GH3 controller was by far the most well designed and resilient controller for guitar games. My first impression was that this was very different from normal Xbox 360 gaming. The first song I attempted to play resulted in me getting booed off the stage because I was playing so poorly. After a few more attempts I was finally able to get through the song. The bad news was that I only hit 80% of the notes in the song. And this was on easy difficulty...

After getting a grasp on how the game works, it's not so bad. Using the guitar controller takes some getting used to. I still am no where close to calling myself adept at using it. Easy difficulty requires the use of 3-4 of the buttons on the guitar neck. Each difficulty increases both the number of buttons required and the speed and number of notes in the songs. So far I've completed roughly 10-12 songs in the game, on easy. Each song requires hitting 90% or better on the notes to complete it.

I was really impressed with the music selection. They did a good job in getting a wide variety of rock music to play. Since this is the third installment of the game, and my first music game, I'm not aware of what music was used in previous games, but I really would like to have been able to play those songs as well in this game. The downloadable songs available was a pretty nice collection. They even had the Halo Theme Mjolnir Mix included, which for a FPS gamer coming into this genre, that was a very good thing. Overall I think this is a game that many do and will enjoy. I'm planning on playing it more and looking forward to trying out new games in this genre.