Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (2007) (VG)

User Rating:

9.1/10   

Release Date:

28 OKTÓBER 2007 (USA)

Plot Keywords:

Guitar | Rock Band | Third Part | Rock 'n' Roll | Rock Music

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Aerosmith	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
AFI	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
An Endless Sporadic	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Backyard Babies	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Beastie Boys	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Bloc Party	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Héroes del Silencio	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Disturbed	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Dope	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Dragonforce	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Extremoduro	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
The Fall of Troy	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Die Fantastischen Vier	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Flyleaf	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Foo Fighters	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Gallows	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Guns N' Roses	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
The Hellacopters	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
In Flames	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Iron Maiden	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Adam Jennings	...	Motion capture actor
Kaiser Chiefs	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
The Killers	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Killswitch Engage	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Lacuna Coil	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Lions	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Living Colour	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Marilyn Manson	...	Himself - Musical Guest
Mastodon	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Matchbook Romance	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Metallica	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Bret Michaels	...	Himself
Mark Mintz	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Tom Morello	...	Himself
Muse	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Naast	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Pearl Jam	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Priestess	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Prototype	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Queens of the Stone Age	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Rage Against the Machine	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Red Hot Chili Peppers	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Revolverheld	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Rise Against	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
The Rolling Stones	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Scouts of St. Sebastian	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Senses Fail	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
The Sex Pistols	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Danny Shorago	...	Holiday in Cambodia (singing voice)
Slash	...	Himself - Musical Guest
Slayer	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
The Sleeping	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Slipknot	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Smashing Pumpkins	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Stephen Stanton	...	Additional Voices (voice)
The Strokes	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Superbus	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Tenacious D	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Die Toten Hosen	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Trust	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
The Used	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Velvet Revolver	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Weezer	...	Themselves - Musical Guest
Judita Wignall	...	Motion capture actress
Matt Wignall	...	Motion capture actor
Sonic Youth	...	Themselves - Musical Guest

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish | German | French

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:PG | USA:T | Australia:M (original rating)

Company:

Activision

Trivia:

First game in the series to feature boss battles.

Goofs:

Factual errors: This game incorrectly labels the band Dead Kennedys (original artist of Holiday in Cambodia) as The Dead Kennedys.

Movie Connections:

References This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

Soundtrack:

Prayer Of The Refugee

Rocks really hard, but has lost some key things...

Since it's debut in 2005, guitar hero has taken north America by storm...literally. now people can live their fantasies by playing their favorite songs, and bragging about it. there's many guitar heroes out there today. you're reading one's review.

But GH3? it certainly lives up to it's hype. stores like future shop and zellers were up to their neck in pre-orders (future shop even made a commercial based on the guitar hero game, and it shows the truth about real guitar heroes, guys who play the game, even when they don't play the game) and i remember going to get my copy (i didn't pre-order) at 6 in the morning on December 26th, 2007....within 20 minutes to half an hour, anyone who wanted a copy of GH3 would have to wait, because they all sold out.

OK, enough about how popular the series is.

In Guitar hero, the player has to hold down the fret buttons, and strum at the exact time the notes on the screen go under the outline, just like playing a real guitar. the whole idea is to play the song the best you can. if you miss too many notes, you fail the song, and you're booed out of the venue.

the soundtrack is actually quite good. when i brought GH3 home, my dad saw a lot of the songs, and told me to play them because he remembered them from his younger days. how awesome is that? my dad usually thinks video games are a waste of time, but guitar hero defies that.

And to add to the value of this game, it's considered the best PS2 game ever, with a 9.9 rating.

However, with all of it's awesomeness, it loses some key things. for example, some characters don't return in certain versions of the game For example, Pandora doesn't come back, and neither does the grim ripper in the PS2 version, and PS2 has no downloadable content like the Xbox 360 version, which kind of pees me off, because Linkin park is finally being featured in a video game, and they're my favorite band.

but if you thought the PS2 version is obsolete, you're wrong. if you can spend some time downloading a program from the internet, and risk losing the warranty to your PS2, you can put modded songs in the game. i remember one guy who took his GH2 game and put "One" from Metallica in it.

And ironically, "One" is in GH3.

Bottom line, go and buy this game. it's best you buy it with a guitar in the package, because playing it with a dualshock controller is a nightmare.

9/10