It's worth noting the number of original tracks added into this year's game. It's easily a much higher ratio of quality over crap than what Guitar Hero II had. And for all the metalheads, you get major classics such as Slayer's "Raining Blood," Iron Maiden's "Number of the Beast" and Metallica's "One." It's an all-around fantastic list with only a few blemishes here and there. Classic punk fans will dig being able to play the Dead Kennedys' "Holiday in Cambodia," Social Distortion's "Story of My Life," and the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy in the UK." Modern rock hits such as Bloc Party's "Helicopter," The Killers' "When You Were Young" and Queens of the Stone Age's "3's and 7's" are also available. Classic rock is represented with songs such as Santana's "Black Magic Woman," the Rolling Stones' "Paint it Black," and ZZ Top's "La Grange." Alternative rock from the '90s is present in a big way with tracks such as The Smashing Pumpkins' "Cherub Rock," Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Suck My Kiss" and Pearl Jam's "Evenflow" on-hand. The soundtrack spans multiple eras and genres. In Guitar Hero III, you'll be making the rock with one of the best soundtracks to be found in any rhythm game. Notes appear on the screen, you hit the matching buttons, and rock is made. The quick and dirty explanation is that you have a guitar controller with five fret buttons and a strummer. We won't spend a great deal of time trying to educate you on the ways of Guitar Hero if you've never played one of these games before.
Now Playing: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Video Review 1 Those issues aside, it's hard to argue with what Guitar Hero III offers from a content perspective, especially if you're a longtime fan of the franchise.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's Likewise, the extreme difficulty of some of the game's more severe songs might end up turning off newer players. If there are any chinks in the armor of this sequel, it's that some of the newer mode additions and a few odd design decisions do more to get in the way of the fun than anything else.
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The core gameplay that fans love hasn't changed outside of some basic tweaks, and the long and varied tracklist is the best of any game in the series to date. The good news is that Guitar Hero III is Guitar Hero through and through. With original Guitar Hero developer Harmonix off the project and Tony Hawk creators Neversoft now on board, it would be fair to wonder if anything that made the wildly popular rhythm game franchise so awesome would be lost in the shuffle. You wouldn't have been wrong to come into Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock with some sense of trepidation.