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Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Wireless Bundle - PS2 | 
| From: Activision Inc.
List Price: $89.99
Buy New: $54.99
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Rating:  102 reviews
Sales Rank: 130
Platform: Playstation2
Genre: Simulation Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7
Dimensions (in): 27.8 x 11.5 x 2.8
MPN: 95119
Model: 95119
UPC: 047875951198
EAN: 0047875951198
ASIN: B000TGDHVY
Release Date: October 28, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | More than 70 of the most legendary rock anthems of all-time | | • | Added multiplayer modes: arcade inspired Guitar Battle and the dual shredding co-op career | | • | Challenge the legends of rock and roll in boss battles | | • | Take those axe shredding skills online and rock around the world | | • | All-new tricked out venues taking you to hell and back |
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 Completely innapropriate for children November 3, 2007
C. Larson
166 out of 300 found this review helpful
Call me a stick in the mud.... or call me person with values... but Guitar Hero III has completely unnecessary sexual innuendoes throughout it and is anything BUT appropriate for children. From the nearly naked women dancing provocatively on stage, to the neon-light replica of a pole dancer, the makers of the game are obviously trying to appeal to both kids AND adults. Version I & II were top-sellers... there was no reason to introduce sexual material.
I'm 26 and my husband and I both love the game... until the "dancers" are on stage. It irritates us BOTH. What a horrible way to ruin a great game. If I DID have children, we would play Guitar Hero II only. Guitar Hero III would never be allowed in my home.
Great Game, not-so-great controller October 29, 2007
Kurt Sample (Rochester, NY United States)
94 out of 98 found this review helpful
The gameplay is GHIII is fantastic (The Boss Battles in career mode are a little silly, but they are thankfully optional). The track list is awesome and the songs are extremely well implemented and fun to play.
The wireless controller included in this PS2 bundle, however, is a big step backwards from the wired SG controllers bundled with GH I and II. I have experienced several random drops in response from the green and yellow buttons (not due to proximity from the receiver, I was less than four feet from the console). The buttons just stopped working. Also, the whammy bar is much closer to the strum bar, and my fingers on my strumming hand kept getting caught in it. Finally, the tilt sensor on my controller only worked intermittently, which was doubly frustrating because they moved to start and pause buttons directly behind the whammy bar, so the alternate method of triggering "Star Power" (hitting the start button) is almost impossible because you have to take your strumming hand off of the strum bar and bring it up and over the whammy bar. I'm returning the bundle and buying the stand-alone GHIII game, and I'm ordering a wired GH2-style controller directly from Red Octane.
 Disappointing compared to GH II November 5, 2007
shopaholic (San Francisco, CA)
50 out of 57 found this review helpful
I had to return the GH III bundle I bought because the yellow and orange frets did not work at all. I just thought that I had bad luck and got a bad apple in the bunch. So, I was happy that all of the buttons on the second guitar worked. That is, until a few minutes into the game, the neck popped out a little bit from the body of the guitar and none of the buttons worked. In fact, I couldn't figure out why the buttons wouldn't work for a while. Anyway, after fixing that by popping it back in, I played for about an hour. Tilting the guitar to set off star power doesn't work! I had to shake violently and even then, it would only set off star power intermittently.
Not crazy about the set list. But I guess opinions can differ on that. But the pop-up note streak thing (i.e. the pop up that indicates that you have hit a 50-note streak, 100-note streak, etc.) is more distracting than helpful.
The battles with the "bosses" are really stupid. My addiction to the game is largely due to the fact that you get to listen to great music while you play a game. But these stupid battles made the game...childish. And it's just frustrating to have to waste my time on something that doesn't really require GH skills.
Anyway, the main burn for me is that the wireless guitar that comes with the bundle is AWFUL. AWFUL. I'm going to try to return the whole thing tomorrow.
Nothing new, a few flaws, but still fun November 4, 2007
Susan Benett (Newton, MA USA)
33 out of 34 found this review helpful
Neversoft's first take on the Guitar Hero franchise really doesn't make any changes to the formula Harmonix created with GH1 and GH2. This isn't really a bad thing since the GH1 and GH2 formulas are so great, but it would have really been nice to see something new for the series. Here's a breakdown of the game:
Graphics:
The graphics on the PS2 version of the game are really nice and definitely have more detail and flair than with the previous Guitar Heroes. Unfortunately, the frame rate drops and the song slows down and gets a little choppy when you use star power. This is really too bad because I usually try to use star power on the parts of songs that I find difficult and this really messes me up even more than I would regularly.
Gameplay/Guitar:
The gameplay pretty much follows the old GH formula, except for the fact that the window of time that you can a play a note in has been extended a little bit. This isn't such a bad thing because some of the later levels in the game would be nearly impossible without this small change. The Gibson Kramer guitar that comes bundled with GH3 is the first stab at a wireless controller for the GH franchise and unfortunately it didn't work to well. The first guitar I got was defective and wouldn't connect to the wireless adapter so I had to return it and get a second one, which did work. Since then my new controller has worked pretty well, but once I had to restart my PS2 to get the controller to work.
Set list:
This is where GH3 really shines. This is definitely the best set list yet. It includes songs like Paint it Black by The Rolling Stones, Welcome to the Jungle by Guns and Roses, and One by Metallica. Nearly all the songs are originals and they all sound really great. This is the best Guitar Hero set list yet. Unfortunately, there are a couple songs which you can only unlock in co-op, so if you don't have a second guitar you'll have to either attempt to play with a regular PS2 controller, or just forget about playing these songs. These co-op only songs aren't small songs either, a couple of them like Suck my Kiss and Sabotage are actually advertised as some of the top songs in the game on the box.
Career/Co-op Career:
The regular career is exactly the same as the past GH game except for the addition of some little cartoons after every set and three boss battles placed throughout the sets. The cartoons are cute but really add nothing to the game. The boss battles are quite fun and challenging, but since there are only three they don't really make up a big part of the career. Also the songs that you play during the boss battles are only playable in single-player career, so as awesome as it sounds to battle your friend to either Tom Morello or Slash's solo filled battle song, sorry, but you can't. The co-op career is really good and it's really fun to be able to play through the career with a friend.
Overall:
Guitar Hero 3 is basically the same as GH1 and GH2, it has the best songs of all the GH games, and the controller is flawed but it is nice to be able to play wirelessly. It's too bad that there's nearly nothing new, but it still includes all the fun of the other guitar hero games.
HUGE DISSAPOINTMENT October 29, 2007
The Dude (EH CT)
13 out of 27 found this review helpful
Let me start off by saying Iam a guitar hero freak I play it all the time almost every day. Yes I guess you could call me one of those guitar hero losers.
I was anticipating this release like no other game ever I went to get the copy at a midnight opening for the game.
There are a few things different about this release from the other 3 releases. That I DO NOT LIKE , but that may differ from your opinion.
1. The game play is a lot different than the others games. There is a smaller screen to work with and they make the fret buttons smaller too.
(not to smart)
2. They will probably ruin the series by concentrating too much on the background stuff all of that has improved from previous releases but still who has time to pay attention to that stuff ?
3. On all other releases I play on hard and expert modes. But in Guitar Hero 3 like I said the screen and fret buttons are smaller so hard mode is not to much fun.
4. I dont wanna start and wars with people and their favorite bands but when it is called LEGENDS OF ROCK I cant help but wonder where is Megadeth who was on the previous two games? Where is Motorhead one of the most influential bands of all time. Where is the great Alice in Chains theres not Grundge in the game no Nirvana. But the did put some stupid bands in like Slipknot and AIF etc. are those two bands legends of rock and will we remember them in a few years probably not.
5. Something they where pretty consistent of in the other releases was the harder the song is in real life was usually later in the game / however they do have different arenas that go together with the bands but still. They made a kiss song more difficult the a Cream song c'mon.
6. There doesnt seem to be a uniqueness to any of the songs they all seem like your playing the same song. The other releases for example Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas Flood the type of pattern you had to play made it unique and blended great with the song. In GH3 there is not to much blending it seems somewhat stale.
Some of the pros for this release
1. The music I like the fact that they picked a lot of older songs but then they did throw in some newer stuff which kinda sucked.
2. The note streak will pop up when your playing, this is a good idea which I happen to like that they added to the release.
3. Slash and Tom Morrello as characters are a great idea for new characters adding real performers.
4. The Battle mode is alright once you get the hang of it but it seems kind of out of place. When all you wanna do is just rock out.
In closing be warned if you like how the previous games where, then try to rent this game first to see if you like it, before you go out and spend your money.
My only fear is that GH series is going to end up staying in this worring about everything but the songs. They will concentrate on new challanges to be made / battle modes and background work than the actual gameplay. They should have just stuck with the orginal gameplay.
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