The Guitar Hero Thread

[Cactus Drags]

Since I had to give my PS2 copy of GH2 to my friend since I knocked her Playstation over and scratched her copy, I decided to replace it with the 360 version, since I got an elite a week or so ago. I got the indie label track pack. It was worth it for just Atreyu, it's so much fun to play. I love Protest The Hero as well, but that song was a bitch. And Trivium can get fucked, The Crusade is a shitty bum of an album.

I got the Hendrix award, twas well weird playing lefty, although the worst part was the whammy bar being in an impossible position to use very well.

[TheRyno]

Any word on bonus in-game unlockable songs or are they included in the final game list? I'm still crossing my fingers that they'll slip in at least the Atreyu track on the PS2 version.

[Fanku Kaibutsu]

About 1:30 into that video is the 'calibrate whammy' option, and it may be one of the most amusing parts of the game.

[New Damage]

The PS2 version of the game should work on PS3, but as my friend who has the PS3 has said, hte PS2 guitar will not work with the PS3, as the 3 needs to recognize the ananlouges or something on the standard controllers to work, but the GH PS2 guitar doesn't have that so it won't register.

Something along those lines anyway.

[Cactus Drags]

GH3 demo out with Tony Hawk's today. And the sneakier amongst you can steal it online, as apparently burning it to any old CD and running it on your 360 adds it to your demos blade.

[Cactus Drags]

Just played it, takes a while to load, but still, it was worth it. The tracks available on the demo are:

Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot (if it's not the original, it's a bloody good cover)

Priestess - I forgot the title >_> (quite fun with all the HOPOs, more on them later)

Pearl Jam - Even Flow (awesomeness, again, if it's not the original, it's an amazing copy)

Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane (so much fun to play)

Tenacious D - some crap (I don't like them, but the demo ended after I'd played Even Flow so I didn't get a chance to play it anyway)

Hammer ons and pul offs seem easier to do. It's certainly clearer which notes are HOPOs. Graphically, it looks great, a lot better than 2, but with that being a PS2 port, it's no surprise. There seem to be more musician close-ups this time around. The menus and everything are in a similar style to 2, but there's now more info on the setlist, giving artist, title and year released. The list is also seperated into tabs, hit blue for the bonus songs, orange for downlaoded and yellow for the main content, should work well (obviously there's only tracks on the one tab at the moment).

The user interface is slightly worse, the score amp is harder tor ead out of the corner of your eye, I had to virtually stop looking at the fretboard to check my score and multiplier. I'm not so keen on the light-up system for the rock meter either, again it's less at-a-glanceish than GH2. It does however let you know how long your note streak is, which is pretty cool...at least until "50 note streak" flies across the screen like a bigass bird of prey or something, very distracting. Still, the notes and the board look cool, they've actually put strings onto the board now, which is awesome.

All in all, it's still Guitar Hero, slightly edgier look as to be expected with Neversoft taking over, the covers so far are really good and it's great fun to play, I can't wait for the full version to come out.

EDIT: I'd post a link to the demo download, but I'm not sure if that crosses warez rules, so I'll leave it for now, till a mod can enlighten us/not be an arse and share it like every other forum is.

Edited October 19, 2007 by Dragsy 7-0

[Jack Krauser III]

The Devil Went Down To Georgia-GHIII Version

[GoGo Yubari]

The Devil Went Down To Georgia-GHIII Version

... meh. I started out going "wow, this isn't as lame as I thought it was going to be," and then as it progressed it just sort of got less and less interesting until it became as lame as I thought it was going to be.

I love the faux-Grindhouse main menu, though.

Edited October 19, 2007 by GoGo Yubari

[Fanku Kaibutsu]

Yeah, that rendition of Devil Went Down To Georgia isn't all that great. I mean, yeah, the solos sound like they'll be a bitch to play, but they don't sound good.

[BlackFlagg]

One

[New Damage]

Wow, those 50 NOTE STREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! messages will be a real pain in the arse.

[Cactus Drags]

Indeed. I imagine if you accrue a 200 note streak, the screen starts shaking violenty side to side, the colours invert, explosions...explode and some cheesy announcer dude yells "M-M-M-M-MONSTER-C-C-C-C-OMBOOOOOOOOOOO!"

[ragbag]

One

Edited October 21, 2007 by wpg

[Jeff Jeffries]

This is going to be epic. When the game comes out, I probably won't be seen much due to a constant playing of this game. I can't wait.

[Fanku Kaibutsu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkovz_8Zx90

This is a video showing off the menus, interface, and character customization of GH3. While I was initially disappointed at how few characters were selectable, I think the amount of customization for each character makes up for it.

[Liam]

This is the 3rd part, but it links to the 1st and 2nd. Purely gives snippets of each song that is in the game, so is cool for checking out songs you may not know of that made the cut.

[Gazz]

Holy Cock! Tom Morello's in it.

SOLD!

[Miami Vice]

I can't wait for this thing! I've heard they are doing a midnight launch but I can't seem to get any info on one in Ottawa. Anyone know if there is a midnight launch in their town?

[Fanku Kaibutsu]

both gamestop.com and bestbuy.com have listings of what stores will be opening at midnight. I would assume any canadian retailers would have such information on their website.

[Fanku Kaibutsu]

There's a demo up on Xbox Live, if you're into that kind of thing. The demo has Even Flo, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Rock You Like a Hurricane and The Metal,

If you don't have a guitar, like me, you can use the Xbox controller to play, it sucks, but, I've been managing on medium.