How did Neversoft's first try at a music game turn out? True Score: 9.1

User Rating: 9 | Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock PS2
By dsplayer1010 | Review Date:
Two years ago, Harmonix popularized the music genre with a masterpiece called Guitar Hero. Two years later, they have left the series to work on bigger (and possibly better) things, with the Guitar Hero franchise going to Neversoft. A company most famous for the Tony Hawk Games.

Neversoft kept the gameplay mostly the same. It is still meant to be played with a mini-guitar. It has five colored buttons on it. One green, one red, one yellow, one blue, and one orange. On Easy, you only use the green, red, and yellow buttons. On Medium, you use the green, red, yellow, and blue buttons. On Hard and Expert, you use all of them. As the colored note scrolls down the screen, you press that color and press the strum bar. Sometimes you will have to press more than one at the same time or you will have to hold the button down. For the latter, you can use the Whammy-Bar to change how it sounds. The only thing changed is that you have a little extra time to hit a note.

There is also multiplayer. One multiplayer mode is co-op career. Which is basically the same as single player career but with two people and with some songs you couldn't get in single player. Another is Face-off which is a head-to-head rock-off. Pro Face-off is the same thing except you get the same number of notes instead of trading off parts. There is also a new mode called Battle Mode. This is like Face-off, but instead of getting star power you get different power-ups for hitting note streaks. These are used to make your opponent screw up and fail the song. It wouldn't be a Guitar Hero game without awesome music, and GH3 doesn't disappoint. With great songs like "Evenflow," "Rock and Roll All Night," "My Name Is Jonas," "Cult of Personality," "Anarchy In The U.K," and more. Many of which are the original Master Tracks. Living Color and The Sex Pistols even rerecorded "Cult of Personality," and "Anarchy in the U.K," respectfully for the game. No Zepplin or AC/DC though. And the lack of online for the PS2 version means no chance of them as Downloadable Content.

The game has good graphics, but most of your attention will go to the track. Except that the singer looks really creepy. Due to the the number of songs, four difficulty levels, multi-player, and the huge amount of of unlockable content, you can spend a lot of time playing this.

Gameplay: 10
Graphics: 8
Sound: 9
Value: 9
Tilt: 9

True Score: 9.1

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