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Guitar Hero III, 80s Tracks Announced
claudia martinez writes "The Guitar Hero franchise is spreading its wings today with the announcement of Guitar Hero III, due to released across four platforms. This time around the title will feature boss battles and a new online multiplayer mode with world-wide leaderboards. Wireless controllers based on the Gibson guitar should be available for all platforms, and some of the titles already slated for the game have been announced. Tracks will include: "Paint It Black" (by The Rolling Stones), "Cherub Rock" (by Smashing Pumpkins), "The Metal" (by Tenacious D), "My Name is Jonas" (by Weezer), "Rock And Roll All Nite" (as made famous by Kiss), "School's Out" (as made famous by Alice Cooper), "Slow Ride" (as made famous by Fog Hat), and "Cult of Personality" (by Living Colour). More tracks from the 80s version of the title have also been announced with Poison, Skid Row, and Billy Squier rounding out the already impressive set list."
I don't think there's a PC version planned but you should really check out Frets on Fire. It's a guitar hero clone for the computer. It says it is also compatible with the actually guitar controller although I can't verify this myself.
If you run a search for "frets on fire song pack" you'll also find links to torrents on some songs to download. They even have the Guitar 1 and 2 songs.
I've been playing with it the past couple days and it seems pretty good.
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With a USB adapter, like the one redoctane themselves sell for PS2 controller to USB, you can use the GH I & II controllers with fretsonfire. And it can rip the GH I songs (maybe GHII) right off the ps2 disc. On top of that, you can create your own songs using whatever mp3s you have and laying down the button sequences and combos on a scale looking thing. Its kind of hard at first though. Gameplay is somewhat difficult though, fretsonfire is much less forgiving in terms of timing and ho/po.