I came. I saw. I rocked.

SGreth

Shared on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 08:28
So I picked up the game that I wanted to buy a 360 - Guitar Hero 3. Rock On. The new Les Paul wireless controller kicks some serious ass. I played for about 8 hours yesterday so my hands hurt a bit this morning :) I went through all of medium and half of hard. Then I rocked some multiplayer with SirPoonga (which we totally tore up).

Neversoft worked a "storyline" into GH3 and it was good enough to get you from point A to point B but not really anything to write home about. The track selection isn't as good as GH2 (IMO) and the boss fights were kind of lame...until Lou. I won't spoil it for people who haven't finished the game yet but the final boss fight was actually kind of cool.

Flat-out suckage:
  • No built-in support for voice - boo. (although you can just create a voice channel in XBL)
  • No XBL coop career? WTF!
  • No "lobby" system
Total Awesomeness:
  • Both head-to-head multiplayer modes are great fun
  • great achievements
  • wireless guitar (and it feels more sturdy IMO)
  • Fire and Flames makes Freebird look like a walk in the park :)

I'm definitely not regretting my 360 purchase now. This game is going to have a lot of play time left in it :)


Comments

SirPoonga's picture
Submitted by SirPoonga on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 09:29
I was playing with someone else later and he said in the game's voice channel worked for him.
SGreth's picture
Submitted by SGreth on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 09:37
hrmmm...I'll have to poke around in the menu then.
SirPoonga's picture
Submitted by SirPoonga on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 09:43
Me too. But he said it just worked which it should. This isn't Neversoft's first time at multiplayer but they where probably given the source code from GH2 and had to fit multiplayer into it. I've had a couple of bad multiplayer experiences.
codemonkey's picture
Submitted by codemonkey on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 09:50
holy shit, you got a 360?
SGreth's picture
Submitted by SGreth on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 10:00
@ Poonga - Call it a hunch...but we won't see *good* multiplayer until Rock Band comes out. @ CM - Hells yeah :)
SirPoonga's picture
Submitted by SirPoonga on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 10:54
We will see. Is Rock Band suppose to have multiplayer? Harmonix hasn't done multiplayer before and this is a different game with different network data. I am loving the wireless guitar. The whammy stays where you put it. No cords is great. Last night I noticed I play better with headphones on so I might have to get some trittons. That might be my christmas present idea.

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