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| Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Wireless Bundle - Xbox 360 | 
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| From: Activision Inc.
Category: Video Games
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $69.99
You Save: $30.00 (30%)
New (28) Used (8) from $42.06
Avg. Customer Rating:  86 reviews
Sales Rank: 82
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Wireless bundle
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7
Dimensions (in): 28.1 x 11.8 x 2.7
MPN: 95123
Model: 95123
UPC: 047875951235
EAN: 0047875951235
ASIN: B000TG531G
Release Date: October 28, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
The greatest game i've played in a long time October 29, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I didnt get Guitar Hero or II, had i known it was this much fun i would have though. I really love old 80's style hair metal and every time a new set unlocked in the game, I was tickled pink with what popped up new!
My first thought when playing my first song was.. wow, this is sort of difficult for me to get straight in my head. I played guitar for about 14 years and used to play some of the songs in the game. The odd thing that happened though is the controller feels like a guitar but the the fingers on my left hand want to do something else! Oddly enough, I unlocked the Slash video and hey said basically the same thing and I didnt feel so crazy anymore. He said that the game would be much easier for someone that had never played guitar before! I'll have to agree. But the cool part is, its not that hard to overcome. You'll just have problems playing on the medium settings.
On Easy, you basically can just look at the colored dots and match them up to your buttons. The problem I had on the medium settings is many passages in songs only wanted me to take actions 1/2 the time, but my brain knew how the song went from playing it on real guitar and I had a really hard time not picking every note that was supposed to be there. Expert however tends to make you do something for every note so that part at least is easier. The issue I notice on expert though is, somehow those 5 little buttons are harder to play than 6 strings and 24 frets on a real guitar! The last song, Metallica "One" I used to play on guitar, I tried on expert mode in Guitar Hero III and I couldnt even come close to doing it!
Just like real guitar, if you want to play in expert mode, you're going to have to practice every song many times to get it. I actually had quite a bit more fun playing on easy, there were quite a few songs where I felt immersed into the song and had the feeling as if I were really playing it.. that was really cool! Expert mode, well reminded me of the days of learning a new song on the guitar.. except using 5 buttons and a strum paddle. I'll tell ya.. I wish i could just plug my Strat into the Xbox and just play that way. I would start practicing guitar again for the first time in 10 years and I'd know more about what i'm doing.
Dont get what I said so far wrong. The fun factor on this game is huge. My roomate that never has played guitar in his life, in fact, never really plays video games at all got into this game. I can actually picture having a party and people fighting over who's next on this thing.
My hopes are that Guitar Hero III will bring rock guitar back and to a new level and hopefully spawn a new generation of guitarists! Anybody that likes rock music, is going to love this game. You'll feel like the guitarist you always dreamed of being. Even on the easy level!
 Great Music, Great Solo Play, Great Group Play October 29, 2007
25 out of 30 found this review helpful
I adore the Guitar Hero series. It is incredibly fun, can be played co-op, and exposes players to all sorts of great music. Guitar Hero III ups the ante with even more fantastic songs plus a new battle mode for fun head to head gameplay!
Once again you're a small time band starting off in your garage - or make that, your back yard. As you play through songs on your guitar controller, your career begins to take off. You make videos, play larger arenas, and earn money. The money lets you buy yourself new outfits and guitars. As you battle special players, you unlock their characters - like Slash from Guns 'N Roses.
In every Guitar Hero game there have been songs I've liked and other songs I haven't liked. That's going to be true pretty much no matter who you are. They try their very best to provide a wide range of music to suit all guitar tastes, and they do an excellent job at it. Some of the songs are SUPER in this set and got me up off the couch dancing around while I played along.
The new battle mode is a ton of fun. Before, you'd get a simple encore at the end of each set. This time you occasionally have to fight a newcomer for guitar supremacy. In battle mode you earn "attacks" that you can then lob at your opponent. These do things like break strings, make you play double notes, make your screen shake, and much more. It is super fun. Near the end of the game when you're down in "Hades", you have to battle the devil himself playing ... Devil went down to Georgia!
There are of course the extras to unlock by doing things like playing 100 notes in a row, the ability to play against friends head to head locally, plus the new ability to play against others online! Talk about a true challenge! It was always scary enough looking at XBox Live and seeing how amazingly high some of those scores were. Imagine trying to play those people live?
The graphics are great. Each location is fleshed out in fantastic detail, from the flickering flames of Hades to the glowing red lanterns of your back yard. The audience always seems a little robotic, but heck, how much do you want from a guitar game?
Many of the songs are now original band-sung songs - including a Living Color song that the band re-recorded specifically for this game! There are still a collection of songs that are "in the style of" - some are good, some are really not so good. The Stevie Ray Vaughn song stands out as the not-so-good reproduction. Still, what can you do. Why aren't those bands giving the Guitar Hero guys permission to use their real tracks? Don't they know how immensely popular this game is?
The wireless guitar controller and it's worked pretty flawlessly so far. We've noticed a tiny amount of 'misses' with the red button, but that may be us getting used to it, we'll have to see.
Highly, highly recommended. It was so much fun that my boyfriend, a guitar player, would occasionally try to play the "real notes" rather than the Guitar Hero game notes. It really is absorbing!
Make sure you get TWO guitars to go with it, so you can play with a friend!
The Rock Gods have smiled upon us! October 28, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
For anyone who has been playing the GH series since it came out around late 2005 it's hard to look back at what music based games used to be like.
For anyone who has NOT been playing the GH series...WTF ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!
The third installment of the Guitar Hero series is here! Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. I bought this game opening day around 11:30am-ish and since have played a solid 8 hours straight. Frankly...my hands hurt. *whimpers*
GH3 is absolutely AMAZING! I've been playing GH from the get-go and it seems that Red Octane is going to continue to up the ante with every installment. The gameplay is polished to a mirror sheen in this version with the controls being extremely smooth and totally free of any errors or problems. (Anyone who remembers the original Guitar Hero remembers how bad the flawed hammer-on and pull-off system was.) Just to repeat: Shiny and very good system. Vastly improved from all previous versons of GH. Graphics for Legends of Rock is also very big. They new graphics (especially for the 360 and PS3 versions) are absolutely gorgeous. Half the time I find myself paying more attention to the female character's *ahem* charms, which are perfectly rendered in 3D, more than the notes I'm playing. Call me what you will but seriously the shadow effects as well as the new texture maps make the graphics almost surrealy-realistic. Thumbs up to Red Octane!
Finally...the song list...What else can be said other than..."Holy mother of all things held sacred...." If I had to sum up this track-list in one word it'd be "EPIC". These songs will be recognized by anyone into any genre of rock. Everything from Classic rock, to modern alternative, classic metal, heavy metal, euro-rock, it's all there. For a more detailed song-list there are hundreds of websites that'll give it to you if you just google "GH3 song list".
I've only found two problems with this game:
1.) Two of the promised tracks were shorted from the game. "Thunderstruck" AC/DC and "Stairway to Heaven" Led Zepplin.
2.) The learning curve of this game pretty bad. I could play Hard mode sections 1-7 quite well but as soon as I hit section 8 I was overwhelmed. The songs went from playable to downright insane in a split second.
 Very disappointed! October 28, 2007
6 out of 50 found this review helpful
I own Guitar Hero II and have been looking forward to III, thinking the songs would be better, as difficult, if not more so than II, and of course, better graphics. The only good thing about III is Slasher, a new character. I started on Hard mode (I am up to level 7 on Expert in II) and got down to level 7 in III before I failed a song. I was bored through most of the songs, which had a lot of 2-note repetition over and over and 1-note strings. Guitar II has a much better song presentation - a lot more fret work and the songs you purchase in the Store are much more fun/interesting than the dull, boring songs presented here. The graphics for the most part look cartoonish (shouldn't they be MORE realisitic, not less?) and some of the characters look plain ugly. While you're trying to play, popups display when you hit 50 and 100 note streak (very difficult to determine when you have reached star power with all the onscreen popups). It's very distracting and not really necessary. There are more distracting flashing lights going on the screen on the stage, including the flashing when you hit a note, which seems more bright than II. The battle with the computer character is OK and about the only difference to the game that I found as a nonmultiplayer gamer. Oh yes - I never did get the wireless guitar to connect - I went back to my reliable II wired guitar instead. I'm going to continue working on beating II and then wait for Rock Band. Hopefully, they will produce fun songs to play like they did in II. (In case you think I just don't like hard rock, I do - I love Transiberian Orchestra and grew to love the songs in II. But III songs are just boring to me.)
Awesome! October 28, 2007
This game is a worthy successor to the Guitar Hero 2 Bundle with Guitar, it has more of the same, as well as a new look and features. The wireless guitar is a huge step-up as it can be customized, and the neck of it is detachable for easier storage.
It also has online multi-player, which was missing from guitar hero II for some reason.
If you liked II, buy III, otherwise try it at a friend's house, or best buy.
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