Guitar Hero has grown to be one of the biggest Gaming Franchises This Century, Now we have Guitar Hero 3, awesome.
Guitar Hero 3 Involves the same gameplay from the previous titles, with some new add-on's and features and a great soundtrack to back it up. The Soundtrack includes the Legends of "Metallica". The game introduces older bands like Foghat aswell. The game has newer music like Disturbed's "Stricken" and Slipknot's "Before I Forgot". They even got the Sex Pistols and Living Colour to come in and re-record some songs for the game.
The game has been boosted up with the difficulty which at sometimes is impossible. With "Through the Fire And The Flames" and "Raining Blood" by Dragonforce and Slayer, you will be throwing things. Only very experienced Guitar hero players will be able to tackle those games down.
The game doesn't help beginner's progress up by doing this alot. I mean you are playing on Medium then you switch to hard, you got alot of frustration coming your way. But, the game does throw in some tutorials to help you out. What they show in these, you should know. You need to do hammer-On's and Pull-Off's and strumming up and down will help you out.
If you are horrid at a song and just can't beat it, don't worry, they brought back a practice mode which may or may not help you. You can slow the song down and keep on testing yourself and preparing yourself up. This was tooken from GH2 and it still helps the player out alot.
Many of the same characters are back like Axel Steel and more. There are some new characters too. You know how the game is called Legends of Rock? Well there are 2 in the game. The All so famous Slash and Tom Morello And Exclusive in the 360, PS3, and PC versions is Bret Micheal's singer of Poison. You also got Lou the Devil (Final Boss) who is also a great challenge to beat.
Even though they included these Legends, there should be many more. You verse some of these characters in boss battles throughout the game. Where you have to hit a series of notes (Full Combo Them.), It works alot like Star Power but is still a good process in the end. It's a good thing and a bad thing at the same time but it is a cool addition.
There are new venues too unlike Rocks the 80's. You start out in crappy little bars and make your way up to huge stadiums as like the previous GH titles.
This game has very odd placed advertisements. When scrolling down the list's of songs you have to play you will see a 5 Gum pack on the side. Also, there's product placement for Toyota on a venue. Your actually playing on a Truck with Toyota hugely plasted on it.
The game includes odd-looking cartoon cutscenes which is odd but it gives the game a bit more story to it which the other titles were lacking and had barely no story what so ever.
Talking about the cutscenes, the animations on characters in this game are horrible. The Drummer looks like a robot and the singer isn't on sync when singing the lyrics. With Rock Band, Nailing everything about animation and even have the guiar palyer's playing the real notes of the song is amazing, but Guitar Hero 3 just fails here.
The game features a great online mode which you can play with other people in all of the game's modes. Including the new Battle (Like the boss stages) and Co-op and Face-off. This works well and there are very little lags within the game.
The new Gibson Les Paul Controller: This guitar may or may not be the best guitar yet, it matters what you like. I like it more then the guitar's on the PS2 and I like the changeable faceplate's and the removable neck. I just don't like the loud strum bar (This may have to do with me getting Rock Band.) But, overall it is a great controller.
The graphics in this game aren't High-End at all but they look like they should. But the character animations aren't great. The singer lip-sings out of tune and the drummer looks horrid. The venues look good but the crowd is pretty meh.
At the end of the day, this Guitar Hero is a great addition to the series. Even though it was made by other people, they still stayed true to the game's and created a good installment, but has not alot new.