For those about to rock...wii salute you!!
The tracklist is obviously the star of the game, and this one is the best so far. Featuring artists like Rolling Stones, Heart, Rage Against the Machine, Foghat, Metallica, and lots more. A lot of these tracks are master tracks. You won't be listening to some cheap Axl Rose imitator here. Activision even had Sex Pistols rerecod Anarchy in the UK. Nice! I wish they had Pride and Joy as a master track. The Stevie Ray Vaughan imitator is terrible. The only prolem with the tracklist is that the difficulty has been revamped plenty. A lot of the songs may improve your skills, but some are so difficult, you'll feel like your fingers are falling off when you finish expert career. The bonus tracks are also disapointing. Only a few are really appealing like Ruby by Kaiser Chiefs, Prayer of the Refugee by Rise Against and naturally Through the Fire and Flames by Dragonforce.
Not much change has been done to change the single player. Neversoft has added in between cinematics higlighting how your band goes from rocking small to big time. The crew of rockers from the previous games are back. You got your punk rocker, your 80's glam rocker, your European metal god,etc. Some new faces include a Japanese schoolgirl, a Hendrix lookalike, and of course, Slash and Tom Morello. These two appear throught the career to test your skills through original recordings created by them exclusively for this game and ultimately appear as playable characters.
The multiplayer is the biggest change. Now available is a co-op career, your standard vs or co-op mode, online multiplayer and leaderboards (uses friend codes. sorry, but when that's out of the way, it's fun) and the brand new battle mode. Using mario kart like power ups, you must send your opponent into submission. The problem with this is that the powers you receive are random and some of them are a lot more powerful than others, making your chances to win the battle part skill and part luck. A perfect example is your final battle against Lou (the devil) with a metal cover of The Devil Went Down to Georgia, which is awesome. You must gather your powers and exxecute them at the right time. Hwat I'd say? Luck.
At the end of the day, despite all its flaws, you'll have a fantastic rhythm game with a killer soundtrack and good multiplayer. It'll be hard to put down and will have you rocking till the late hours of the night.