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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."
Until we finally get to "Lyre Hero: The Music of Ancient Rome"
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99% of the people playing this game STILL can't really play a guitar
A real guitar would be too difficult. It takes a long time and a lot of practice to be able to hit chords with any speed at all. People want to play a game, not spend weeks and months just trying to get the basic stuff going. I also hate the microswitch clicking on that controller.
It would be cool if they made the controller more complicated though. More buttons on the neck that would at least attempt to simulate real chords better. It would be a lot easier than pushing strings but it could give you a little of the muscle memory necessary for playing a real guitar.
Realism does not necessarily equate to "fun". They found a fun formula and it works. It is impressive to see someone ace a song on Expert setting, but not in the same way as watching someone play a real guitar well. Both are impressive, but in different ways and for different reasons.
I bought Guitar Hero for the 360, and when the owner of a sandwich shop I frequent saw it, he commented on how interested he was in it (he practices with a real guitar at the back when I come in). Next week when I'm getting my sandwich, I find out he's bought it and used it to not only have some fun, but also improve his technique. So I'd say it may help those struggling with some things to relax and try to replicate what happens in GH in real life. Turns out he wasn't strumming properly and thus his whole arm hurt after practicing for real. But with GH, he "learned" to strum better, so he's not hurting so badly after practice.
So I can say that real-life guitar students might just want to check it out just to see if it might help them. If not, it's a great way to just have some fun playing songs that one wants to play - those practice songs get old quick, and everyone wants to try to play their favorite song one day or another.
My request - I wish they'd have the Top Gun theme in there. Movie was OK (Cruise, 'nuff said), but have to admit, that theme is fairly distinct and definitely guitar-heavy.
Is there a PC version of the GH franchise planned? Anyone know? Kevin
Unfortunatly the greatest guitar game of all time is missing one of the greatest, if not THE greatest Aussie ever to play the guitar, Angus Young. Come on guys, how can you make such a stupid omission :(
I do both, and I can easily see why people just want to play Guitar Hero. Guitar Hero is just plain fun, you don't even have to get up to expert level to have a lot of fun with it. Hell, the only reason I'm at expert level is because over the summer, my roommate and I had absolutely nothing better to do than play Guitar Hero constantly. But they really are two different experiences, and just because it's a blast to rock out on Guitar Hero doesn't mean you'd have fun playing a real guitar.
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Unfortunatly the greatest guitar game of all time is missing one of the greatest, if not THE greatest Aussie ever to play the guitar, Angus Young.
I hear they tried doing an AC/DC Guitar Hero track where the player performs as Malcom young, but they found that it was too easy to get a perfect score by just going "chunka chunka" on eighth notes for 3 minutes straight.
Sure it's a game, but so are flight sims and look how realistic [as best as you can get on a home PC] they are.
I don't find realistic simulations to be all that much fun, myself. The learning curve is too steep and the activity often too mundane.
I would rather play a game like Afterburner than MS Flight Simulator; who cares about boring details like checking altimeters and retracting the landing gear after takeoff, I just want to get in a firefight with some Russian MiGs already, goddammit.
The same approach is the difference between learning to play guitar and playing Guitar Hero. Enjoying the latter has no effect on whether I should or do enjoy the former.
GUITAR NERO!