Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii)

...third instalment of Activisions popular guitar playing game and the first to appear on the Wii. Having never played previous games, I was a little dubious as to how well the game would play particularly with what I thought was a pretty tacky-looking, 'pretend' guitar. Thankfully, the £60 investment is a good one and it's a game I totally recommend. My vested interest in the gameplay is due to my own guitar-playing skills on a 'normal' everyday guitar. ...
...But, having a little guitar experience is no measure of ability to play this game -something I found out very early on. The game is played by a series of notes scrolling along a fret-board and you simply have to 'twang' the string plucker (in actuality, a spring-loaded switch in a vaguely string-like shape) while pressing the correct button on your pretend guitar in conjunction as to what is displayed on screen. It sounds simple. It isn't. If you ...

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...of a year old, the Guitar Hero franchise makes its way to Nintendo's little white box. Gone are the days when you'll jump around the room playing air guitar to your favourite Rock Anthems. Now Activision and Red Octane have produced a game that allows you to do all that but with a pseudo-guitar in your hands. Rock On! So let me explain, for those not already in the know, the Guitar Hero games are based on the premise of you pretending to play the ...
...Initially just playing the guitar controller itself seems difficult - perhaps too difficult to even give the game a chance. I know when I first played it I thought I would never get to grips with it. Luckily there is a training mode and a practice mode (more on them later), that really help you get to grips with the basics and more very quickly. The controller itself looks like a guitar and the Wii Remote slots into a panel at the back, but pushes ...

MilkyMalky 06.01.2008 (04.01.2008) · Read full review
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When i heard guitar hero 3 was coming out i pre-ordered it as soon as i could. Previous guitar hero games ahve been really good and i couldnt wait to see how they would make it for the wii. Needless to say they did not dissapoint. THE GUITAR CONTROLLER Wow! It looks really good for a start. Plus you get the extra stickers to customise yours with, personally i think it looks best blank. But if your not into stickers or leaving ti plain you can buy ...
...the tilt sensor, tilt the guitar upwards while playing to activate star power ( This is really really cool) The only set back i can imagine is that if you only have 1 remote it would be a time consumer to keep having to take the controller in abd out the guitar everytime you want to play a different game, but this is practically unavoidable. WHAT IF YOU DONT HAVE THE CONTROLLER Well you can always use your wii remote by itself but obviously its ...

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...bug myself. When Guitar Hero III was released for the Wii, it was inevitable that one particularly copy would be in my home soon, especially when coupled with the fact I am a massive fan of innovative games on the Wii, such as Wii Sports and Wii Fit. Getting started =========== When you turn on Guitar Hero, you are presented with the menu screen, which primarily allows you to tackle Career Mode. Career Mode involves selecting a character and playing ...
...Play ======== You play Guitar Hero using the Les Paul Guitar, which connects to your Wii via a wireless connection. This Guitar is designed to the scale of a toy guitar, with 5 fret keys and a strummer. The gameplay is very similar to the Dancing Stage games, where a series of notes come towards you on the screen and you have to press the relevant fret key and strummer at the same time at a particular point to play the note. You play mainly to ...

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~~**~~* Guitar Hero III *~~**~~ Those of you who've read my Mario and Sonic for the Wii review will understand the problems I have when it comes to addiction. Once I've found something, I'm stuck with it until it's completed. Damn Guitar Hero - every spare minute I have is spent on it - Jeremy Kyle and This Morning are out the window, promoting the new business has ceased and the dog has turned into a little skeleton (only joking, I occasionally ...
...with the Les Paul Controller Guitar thing (included in the price, luckily) and although I know I look a tit, it does indeed make me feel like a pro. The guitar is surprisingly easy to set up - remove from box, slot handle/string section onto bottom twangy section, place your wii remote inside the contraption and hey presto, you're ready to rock. (Actually, you've also got to put disc into wii machine, turn on tv and wii and put tv on correct channel ...

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Guitar hero has been around for quite sometime now. It was a few Christmas's ago when I got the original game which came out on the PS2. Here however is the game for the next generation consoles!. This review is for the wii version which is slightly different from the other versions as I will expand on later. The game is brought to us from NEVERSOFT. These developers are best known for the Tony Hawks series, which were very good games. NEVERSOFT ...
...the fourth game in the guitar hero series so you know it is going to be good! There are two areas of the game to speak of. The controller and the game itself. I will talk about the controller first: With the game you get a specialised controller that makes the game what it is. The controller this time is in the shape of the famous GIBSON les Paul. It is in white with a black neck which gives it that wii feel! This controller is different from the ...

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The Guitar Hero franchise has gone through something of a meteoric rise in recent years, but might have been plagued with some serious issues, had new publisher Neversoft not got the hang of things as quickly as they obviously have done in this latest installment. This is the first time a Guitar Hero title has appeared on a Nintendo console, and the innovations pave an interesting path ahead. The guitar and the Wiimote combine effortlessly, and ...
...pennies. The new guitar supplied with the game is exceptional. Based on the Gibson Les Paul, the new design works well. The buttons feel better to hold, and the fret bar isn't as 'clacky' as before. The Wiimote sits inside the guitar, and vibrates satisfyingly when 'Star Power' is ready. Also, the sound where you miss a note pulsates through the-albeit tinny-speaker in the remote, giving you a more immersive experience. However, this title goes ...

dan_the_turbanator 19.06.2008 (18.06.2008) · Read full review
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Guitar Hero 3 - Legends of Rock!!! My husband and I love our Wii and are always looking for new games and when Guitar Hero came out we knew we had to get it. I had heard about it alot from other people and from reading reviews for other games systems so was excited when I saw it had come out for Wii. We bought the game pack from Argos for £69.99, a bit steep for a new computer game but bear in mind that you are not only getting a game but also ...
...guitar is plastic and I would say almost as big as a real guitar but not quite. It looks and feels like a real guitar so already the game has an authentic feel to it. It comes with a strap that you can detach and that allows you to put over your head and hold onto the guitar safely, much like a real one. When you first start out with the guitar the funniest part for us was the stickers that came with it that allow you to customise your guitar or ...

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...that of the guitar. The Guitar Hero series is known for the fact that, in order to play the games, you must have a guitar controller to plug in to your game console. In the beginning, it was the lone PS2 that played Guitar Hero. When the sequel came out, both the PS2 and the Xbox 360 carried it, as well as new controllers. However, the newest version, Guitar Hero III, is enlisting guitars to the PS2, Xbox 360, PS3, PC and Mac, and even the Nintendo ...
...Wii technically has an exclusive guitar because of it requiring the Wii-mote. And how does it fair as a game all it's own? Well, there's no better time than now to find out. You are the lead guitarist in a band, as you and your band perform at different locales, growing from a garage band to having gigs at a club/bar to full-on concert tours. That's the basic gist of career mode, at least. Honestly, did you expect much depth from a game with a guitar? ...

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My brother got Guitar Hero III from the Nintendo Wii at Christmas and although this isn?t the sort of game that I would usual play, it being Christmas and all I did have a go with him. I am so pleased that the festive season made me give this game a shot because I really enjoyed playing it and have since then been found playing the game on my own. Guitar Hero has a very simple premise and that is to progress through the game by successfully playing ...
...be connected into the wii guitar for more realistic playing or used on its own, although this I found to be trickier. As each track plays through coloured circles, and lines if the note is to be played longer, scroll down the screen. In order to successfully complete a track you must press the button on either the guitar neck or wii remote that corresponds with the coloured circle at the correct times. If using the guitar you must also strum for ...

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...friend, Henri, introduced me to Guitar Hero and I was hooked. Unfortunatally I only had a PC so I had just admire Guitar Hero from afar. Then when my house bought a Wii I just new that I had to get Guitar Hero and I was even luckier because HMV was selling it for £35 compared to the original and expensive £70. I have also seen it in CEX (The second hand electronic store), but it was expensive there as well at £60. For my £35 pounds I got: 1x Wireless ...
...is a sequeal in the Guitar Hero (GH) series. Others include GH Metallica, GH ... The game disc is compatible with Guitar Hero Wii Guitars and so could be purchased separatly as just an addition to your GH collection. The best place to buy the game separatly seems to be CEX (www.cex.co.uk) where they sell it for around £12. For those of you who are new to GH, it is a game which is based around the mastering of songs using the guitar controller. It ...

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Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock I was lucky enough to get a Wii for Christmas and it came with Guitar Hero II: Legends of Rock. I must admit that at a hefty £44.99, (Amazon), I probably wouldn’t have forked out for this but I am really glad it came with my Wii. For those of you that don’t know Guitar Hero is a range of games that let you “play guitar” and become a rock star via your games console. I am pretty sure that you can get Guitar Hero on ...
...I got there was a guitar shaped controller, (made of black and white plastic), with no strings but instead 5 colour coded buttons and a whammy bar, the actual game, a guitar strap and a sheet of stickers to decorate your guitar. (Please note that although there are stickers made to go on the buttons of the controller i found that they will actually, very quickly start to peel off and make it more difficult to get the right button). I have the Gibson ...

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...The controller? satisfyingly chunky and guitar like. The value for money? Good if you can find an offer on it below the RRP which at this stage in the games life should not be a problem. Or is it that here is a chance to stride around your living room acting like the rock god you have always known you would be if only you had picked up that guitar back when you were young? I for one bought this game because of the latter and it has not disappointed ...
...first is that the first time I switched the game on with my girlfriend sitting in a nearby chair I was reasonably confident that I would be able to make at least a passable attempt at one of the first tracks straight away and then hone my skills to a more "Rock Legend" level as time progressed. Wrong! Her laughter at that first pittiful attempt as I strutted up and down whilst arythmically destroying the first couple of tracks will haunt me and my ...

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Guitar Hero III, what can I say… Addictive! I'm no guitar player (dabbled in a bit of acoustic guitar-ing a few years ago with little progress) but this game makes you feel like a Rock God and I LOVE IT! After purchasing my Wii this was at the top of my 'games to own' list as I had played the previous instalments on the PS2. I was not disappointed. The game, plain and simply is amazing! With 4 difficulty levels this game will keep you addicted for ...
...not hinder my enjoyment as Guitar Hero III has got some Rocking tunes, which are really catchy! For £60, it does seem a little expensive for a Nintendo Wii game, but you've got to remember that it comes with the awesome Guitar controller and an extremely addictive game. In my eyes it is well worth it and I highly recommend it! So kids and adults alike, get it on your Christmas lists soon as Santa is not going to have many left by Christmas! Enjoy ...

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Guitar Hero III - Legends of Rock, lets you experience what it is like to be a guitarist doing concerts. If you have bad co-ordination and cannot play the guitar very well but you really want to play it, then guitar hero 3 is the game for you. Different difficulties make it better, because if you can train yourself up and then try medium after easy, then hard after medium, any combination. You can also unlock bonus songs, play multi player, play ...
...so much to do. In addition, the game will keep you entertained well after you have completed it. You can unlock many different characters such as Slash from Guns n Roses for example. One of my favourite songs on it is Welcome to the Jungle by Guns n Roses. Personally, I find through the fire and flames the hardest game of the lot, which is most likely the reason for why they put it at the ending credits of the game for you to play. The characters ...

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