Rock Band vs Guitar Hero 3
User Rating: 9 | Rock Band X360
Rock band is not as great for just guitar, because it catches notes about 80% as much as guitar hero 3 does, which can be frustrating... Then again, if you just bought the drums and game it's great for solo stuff, but if you're mainly aiming to have a more stable guitar game I'd definitely go with guitar hero... The only way rock band is better is if you either at least have drums, or fork up the money to buy all 4 and play it with your only 3 other friends. In addition, rock band's guitar controller has super thick frets, and not to mention there's no click noise when you strum so it's harder to keep in time. It also feels like the strumming bar doesn't really have as much of a defined up and down position, there's a lot of wiggle room when you strum so sometimes you think you're doing fine but the little wiggle in your strum bar tricks you sometimes when you think you've made a complete up or downstroke you really haven't. The only bonus with the rock band guitar controller is the 'solo' frets and the toggle switch that changes the guitar sound when you initiate 'overdrive' aka star power. The drums need a reinforced metal bass pedal or something like I have (i got mine off ebay), it will break eventually, especially if you have people who never play drums and slam the kick pedal with their foot everytime and stomp it until it cracks in half. Guitar hero is a more competitive and flashy version with higher difficulty songs straight out of the box (rock band has super hard songs for download i.e. the song thrasher, look it up on youtube...) Rock band gives you more customizability as far as your character's looks etc, but guitar hero still has some outfits to keep things fresh, not to mention a bunch of bizarre guitars... In terms of fun/challenge guitar hero has got songs directly charted and picked for the guitar, while rock band has some compromising songs to pick well-rounded difficulty for all 4 instruments in the case everyone ends up playing it... Maybe this is more than you wanted to read, but maybe it's exactly what you wanted to know, so good luck on choosing and I hope this helped. 
