Excuse the bad title name, its the subtitle of Guitar Hero 3. WOW what a coincidence thats what this post is about!

In case you didn’t know this year the creators of the annual skateboarding fest that is the Tony Hawk series took over from Harmonix (the old team) in making Guitar Hero games. Fair enough Guitar Hero has lasted 2 and a half games and its been fine. Really what is there to mess up? Pick a decent song list and I’ll be happy.

They did pick a decent song list and the game has its highs. I found a lot of new songs I have never heard of, and I enjoyed most of them. Its towards the end of the game that it falls apart. Let me explain something about Guitar Hero. Personally Medium mode is too easy. You only use 4 buttons and it never gets to complex. Hard is where I normally stay as it uses all the buttons and it only has some difficult parts, most that are attainable by practice. Expert is a mode i dabbled in but wasn’t to good as it requires…. expert skill at the game.

Now this year Medium mode is fun, but hard mode is riduclous. I got very very far in GH2 on expert but I doubt I’ll even try it as it just gets to a point where you hand will fall off and start having spasms on the floor. Yes hard mode is meant to be hard, it always has done but they’ve started turning hard mode into expert mode. expert mode this year must be insane.

I suppose me being crap at the game isn’t a good reason for me to not like this game. Actually thats a lie… I don’t hate this game, I love it. It has more songs that I like and thats all you want from a Rhythm Game’s Sequel. But they’ve also added Boss Battles, Why? Not only is the last one very very hard but now you have the instance of luck due to the random power ups. Not only that but it does take you away from the I’m in a band and put you in the I’m in a band, but I’m also in hell having a guitar duel against the devil……

Co-Op career is a good addition. Wait no its not, it means you have to play on a controller or pay Activision some more money to buy another guitar. I’ve only played this with a friend and a controller as a fair chunk of the songs that I wanted from this game are hidden in the Co-Op Career. I had to play bass on easy mode on a controller so I could play Bloc Party on exper.

Guitar Hero 3 is a good game, but everything that Neversoft have added takes away from the enjoyment. But it is still a good game, Buy it on ebay for under £30 if you don’t want a wireless guitar.

Just expect Rock Band to be a breath of fresh air.