Unleash your inner rock legend with Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. Face off against guitar icon Slash, from Guns N' Roses, and others in insane boss battles featuring original tracks recorded exclusively for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. Defeat opponents to achieve legendary status in head-to-head competition including the all-new Guitar Battle or share the glory with a friend in the new Co-op Career Mode. Realize a true rock concert experience with all new venues, incredible lighting effects, authentic instruments and sick character moves. And since rock is all about the music, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock features over 70 of the biggest and loudest songs ever compiled in a single game disc, with nearly as many also available for download online.  | Classic Guitar Hero gameplay.
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In-game exclusive boss, Slash, from Guns N' Roses.
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Deep and varied game modes.
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Loads of customizable characters.
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Venues, big and small.
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More than 70 songs on disc.
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Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock features an array of game modes designed complement every player's preference and time considerations. In single player, take advantage of Quickplay functionality for spontaneous action when you only have a few minutes to spare for a fast play through of a song, or dive into Training and Career Modes when you want to concentrate of specific skills and song parts, or are ready to make your way to the top of the Rock & Roll game. Multiplayer modes are just as diverse and include a cooperative Career Mode, Pro Face-Off and Face-Off, in which two Guitar Heroes conduct their own symphonies of destruction, and Battle Mode in which successful playing earns you powerups that can be used to disrupt the flow of opponent's play. A Legendary Set List
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock features a deep set list made up of some of the most iconic hits of rock history, mixed with a sampling of the most infectious rock tracks of recent years. Your game disc includes over 70 songs, evenly distributed throughout every corner and mode of the game. This includes a wealth songs that are unlocked as you play through single and multiplayer modes, those specific to boss battles encountered, tracks exclusively chosen for Co-op Career play and a large number of bonus songs, mostly purchasable using in-game money. Players on the Xbox 360 platform can also download additional songs via Xbox LIVE Marketplace, nearly doubling the list of songs initially available. The complete set list available with disc includes: | "Anarchy in the UK" - Sex Pistols | "Barracuda" - Heart | | "Before I Forget" - Slipknot | "3's & 7's" - Queens of the Stone Age | | "Black Magic Woman" - Santana | "Black Sunshine" - White Zombie | | "Bulls on Parade" - Rage Against the Machine | "Cherub Rock" - The Smashing Pumpkins | | "Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll" - Blue Öyster Cult | "Cliffs of Dover" - Eric Johnson | | "Cult of Personality" - Living Colour | "Devil Went Down to Georgia" - Steve Oumiette | | "Even Flow" - Pearl Jam | "Guitar Battle vs. Slash" - Guitar Hero III Original | | "Go That Far" - Bret Michaels Band | "Helicopter" - Bloc Party | | "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" - Pat Benatar | "Holiday in Cambodia" - Dead Kennedys | | "Knights of Cydonia" - Muse | "Kool Thing" - Sonic Youth | | "La Grange" - ZZ Top | "Lay Down" - Priestess | | "Miss Murder" - AFI | "Mississippi Queen" - Mountain | | "Monsters" - Matchbook Romance | "My Name Is Jonas" - Weezer | | "The Number of the Beast" - Iron Maiden | "One" - Metallica | | "Pride and Joy" - Stevie Ray Vaughan | "Paint It, Black" - The Rolling Stones | | "Paranoid" - Black Sabbath | "Raining Blood" - Slayer | | "Reptilia" - The Strokes | "Rock You Like a Hurricane" - Scorpions | | "Rock and Roll All Nite" - Kiss | "Same Old Song and Dance" - Aerosmith | | "Story of My Life" - Social Distortion | "School's Out" - Alice Cooper | | "Sabotage" - Beastie Boys | "Slow Ride" - Foghat | | "Sunshine of Your Love" - Cream | "Suck My Kiss" - Red Hot Chili Peppers | | "Talk Dirty to Me" - Poison | "The Metal" - Tenacious D | | "The Seeker" - The Who | "When You Were Young" - The Killers | | "Welcome to the Jungle" - Guns N' Roses | "Avalancha" - Heroes del Silencio | | "Closer" - Lacuna Coil | "Can't Be Saved" - Senses Fail | | "Down N Dirty" - LA Slum Lords | "Don't Hold Back" - The Sleeping | | "FCP Remix" - Fall of Troy | "Generation Rock" - Revolverhead | | "Go That Far" - Bret Michaels Band | "Hier Kommit Alex" - Die Toten Hosen | | "In the Belly of a Shark" - Gallows | "I'm in the Band" - The Hellacopters | | "Impulse" - An Endless Sporadic | "In Love" - Scouts of St. Sebastian | | "My Curse" - Killswitch Engage | "Minus Celsius" - Backyard Babies | | "Metal Heavy Lady" - Lions | "Mauvis Garcon" - NAAST | | "Prayer of the Refugee" - Rise Against | "Radio Song" - Superbus | | "Ruby" - Kaiser Chiefs | "She Bangs the Drums" - The Stone Roses | | "Take This Life" - In Flames | "Through the Fire and the Flames" - Dragonforce | | "The Way It Ends - Prototype | | Key Game Features - Become a Legend - Face off against guitar icons in insane bosses, including Slash from Guns N' Roses, and featuring original tracks recorded exclusively for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.
- Rock Out Online or Party Offline - Defeat opponents to achieve legendary status in head-to-head competition.
- Gameplay Variety - Options include single player Training, Quickplay and Career Modes, as well as Multiplayer Co-op Career, Face-Off, Pro Face-Off and Battle Modes.
- Incredible Track List - Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock for Xbox 360 features over 70 of the biggest and loudest songs ever compiled in a single game disc, as well as nearly the same amount available for download via Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
- Exciting Characters and Venues - Select and customize a wide variety of Guitar Hero characters as you unlock venues featuring over-the-top stage design. Guitar Hero II features three new Guitar Heroes: The rockabilly-greaser Eddie Knox, the beautiful (but tough) Casey Lynch, and the Scandinavian metal superstar Lars Umlaut.
- Fully Immersive Concert Experience - Realize a true rock concert experience with all new venues, incredible lighting effects, authentic instruments and sick character moves.
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 Amazing Fun - Addictive and Vastly Replayable |
| Review Date: October 29, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Lisa Shea, |
I adore the Guitar Hero series. It is incredibly fun, can be played co-op, and exposes players to all sorts of great music. Guitar Hero III ups the ante with even more fantastic songs plus a new battle mode for fun head to head gameplay!
Once again you're a small time band starting off in your garage - or make that, your back yard. As you play through songs on your guitar controller, your career begins to take off. You make videos, play larger arenas, and earn money. The money lets you buy yourself new outfits and guitars. As you battle special players, you unlock their characters - like Slash from Guns 'N Roses.
In every Guitar Hero game there have been songs I've liked and other songs I haven't liked. That's going to be true pretty much no matter who you are. They try their very best to provide a wide range of music to suit all guitar tastes, and they do an excellent job at it. Some of the songs are SUPER in this set and got me up off the couch dancing around while I played along.
The new battle mode is a ton of fun. Before, you'd get a simple encore at the end of each set. This time you occasionally have to fight a newcomer for guitar supremacy. In battle mode you earn "attacks" that you can then lob at your opponent. These do things like break strings, make you play double notes, make your screen shake, and much more. It is super fun. Near the end of the game when you're down in "Hades", you have to battle the devil himself playing ... Devil went down to Georgia!
There are of course the extras to unlock by doing things like playing 100 notes in a row, the ability to play against friends head to head locally, plus the new ability to play against others online! Talk about a true challenge! It was always scary enough looking at XBox Live and seeing how amazingly high some of those scores were. Imagine trying to play those people live?
The graphics are great. Each location is fleshed out in fantastic detail, from the flickering flames of Hades to the glowing red lanterns of your back yard. The audience always seems a little robotic, but heck, how much do you want from a guitar game?
Many of the songs are now original band-sung songs - including a Living Color song that the band re-recorded specifically for this game! There are still a collection of songs that are "in the style of" - some are good, some are really not so good. The Stevie Ray Vaughn song stands out as the not-so-good reproduction. Still, what can you do. Why aren't those bands giving the Guitar Hero guys permission to use their real tracks? Don't they know how immensely popular this game is?
We do have the wireless guitar controller and it's worked pretty flawlessly so far. We've noticed a tiny amount of 'misses' with the red button, but that may be us getting used to it, we'll have to see.
Highly, highly recommended. It was so much fun that my boyfriend, a guitar player, would occasionally try to play the "real notes" rather than the Guitar Hero game notes. It really is absorbing!
Make sure you get TWO guitars to go with it, so you can play with a friend! |
ROCK BAND Guitar will NOT WORK!!! Consider yourself warned!!!!
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| Review Date: March 20, 2008 |
| Reviewer: A. J. Ollarzabal, Japan |
| Just wanted to throw in an important fact. Don't buy the GAME ONLY unless you already own a GH guitar. I went and bought both GH 2&3 thinking I could use my Rock band Guitar. Your RB guitar will not work with any GH games!!! Now I have to spend more money for a guitar, when I tried to save money. Great Game BTW! |
What he wanted!
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| Review Date: January 7, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Marianne J. Cook, Lawrenceville, GA |
| Purchased for 16 year old son, it is what he asked for and he said its awesome. |
Damnit it's addicting... but fun
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| Review Date: August 13, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Jeffrey M. Carbaugh, |
| Games, fun... nothing really different from GH2 just different songs and a couple extra bells and whistles... still it was a good buy. |
Another winner
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| Review Date: August 22, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Terri L. Cunningham, |
| Like the music selections better, and like the frst and second issues, his shouldn't fall under the category of Video "game". It takes so much more hand/eye coordnation than the average video game. Watching the competitions is almost as much fun as being at a live concert. Beieve me, when the song is done, the players are sweating. So this is a great video game that gets the kids up off the couch and moving, even if they don't know it! |
This game rocks
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| Review Date: November 1, 2008 |
| Reviewer: K. Kendall, Crime free Mississippi |
| The Guitar Hero game series may be the best thing to ever happen to video games. Finally, a game driven by musical interest that teenagers love to play. My 13 year old had to be told to turn it off every day, but at least he was developing an ear for music as well as his hand to eye coordination. It is very refreshing to find a game teenagers love that doesn't include guns, cars, and violence. |
Love it!
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| Review Date: May 31, 2009 |
| Reviewer: J. Espinosa, Germany |
| I love Guitar Hero period but Guitar Hero III is by far the best! I love that you are able to slow down a song so that it is the speed you need to practice and also the songs on it are actually songs that I know, they have some old classic songs but also some newer songs. It is just a fun game but it is addicting! |
Classic Game
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| Review Date: December 17, 2009 |
| Reviewer: John Lundgren, |
| I've played all of the Guitar Hero games, and I think that this one is by far my favorite. It has the right mix of songs and even the "Who the heck are these guys?" songs are pretty good. If you haven't played any of them yet, this is a good one to get. It's a little older (They have guitar hero 5 out now), but it's still a classic. |
Love it!
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| Review Date: January 7, 2010 |
| Reviewer: A. Kennedy, Northern NM |
| I was skeptical of any GH games... however we have GH2, GH3, Aerosmith and World Tour... and I think GH3 is my favorite. User friendly and lots of great music to rawk out with over and over again. |
This is the one that got me hooked on GH!
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| Review Date: January 13, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Keogh, Denver |
| I really liked this one! If you are just going to play guitar and don't need all of the 'band' options, you will like this game much more than some of the later ones. There are great songs and fun guitar battles (they got rid of this in later editions) to be had in this one. We also enjoyed a lot of the downloadable content as well. I have played about 5 of the GH games now and still like this one the best. |
Must buy for the guitar hero series...
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| Review Date: October 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Dustin Cherock, Pittsburgh PA |
| This game is great. The song selection is better than the first 2 games in my opinion. There is a song title for just about any genre. If you are a fan of the guitar it would be pretty hard to not be able to find at least 5 or 6 songs that you like. As for the christian comment in the other review... I am also Christian and all I have to say is.. oh, please. Can we not get offended by every little thing? The fun is totally taken out of life by people who get offended by every little thing. Just play the song, beat it, and move on.. You never have to play it again. Don't give the game a 2 star review because a few songs don't agree with your religion, thats why we're in America, you believe whatever you want, listen to whatever you want, and play whatever you want! |
Fun for ALL
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| Review Date: April 15, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Susan Beckett, Pahrump, Nv USA |
| This product is awesome. I purchased this product for my 10 year old daughter. Her older sisters who are 17 play this game for hours if I let them. Her younger sister who is six also loves this game. I am 45 and think it also lots of fun and can really see why the kids love it. You can play it with the additional Guitars or without. We have both and depending on your style is your game.... |
huge santanist right here all the way theres no other way to go
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| Review Date: November 1, 2007 |
| Reviewer: T. Ulreich, IL |
| lmao expose the lie inspired me to write another review I just found it hilarious. obviously a stuck up parent who needs to get that thing out of there a$$. how can this be a satanist game if god himself is in this game? they put bands like Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer and Eric Johnson because there challenging songs to play on guitar not because there satanists. this game is a god send I listen to all types of rock music and everything is here. from punk, alternative, heavy metal and classic rock. They need variety or else it would make this game boring. I am not a huge fan of Slayer but it was great to see them in this game because it is a crazy song to play. as for the game its the best of the 3 and have a blast playing it I have been a fan since the beginning and will continue to support this game as long as they stay true to the formula. |
THIS IS THE BEST GAME EVER!!!!!!!
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| Review Date: June 23, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Peggy Bleau, |
guitar hero 3 has all the classic songs on it and has awesome grafics and has the real voices of the people who wrote it!!
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Still the same Guitar Hero, but with some great additions.
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| Review Date: November 1, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Harvey H. Meeker, Shelton, CT USA |
Guitar Hero 3 (GH3) is the fourth iteration in this series of games despite it being labeled the third, though for most people the 80s edition that was the actual third game was a bit of a footnote since it only came out on PS2 and had very little in it that differed from Guitar Hero 2 other than the songs.
GH3 continues with the same basic formula as the previous games which will keep fans of the series happy, but at the same time adds some welcome new features. One of the best additions is that of online play so that you can now do co-op, face-off, pro face-off and battle mode with a friend over the Live network.
The battle mode is a change up from the normal face-off modes in that instead of gaining star power you acquire attacks from playing certain sequences of notes. Then when you turn the guitar up as if you were going to use star power it instead launches an attack at your opponent. The attacks vary in their nastiness and while I was skeptical of this new aspect of the game it's actually a nice twist for those more competitive players.
Another addition is the co-op career mode, but unfortunately you can't play this mode online which means you'll have to get a friend over with their guitar to experience this mode.
Speaking of the guitar the new wireless Gibson Les Paul style guitar controller is a welcome change from the original 360 GH2 controller. Overall it just feels a lot more solid, especially the whammy bar. Not being wired makes a big difference in terms of convenience. There are GH3 bundles out there with the original GH2 controller in them and I would recommend passing on those in favor of the wireless bundle.
The career mode remains mostly the same as in the previous games. There are now little animated vignettes between each set that don't add much to the overall experience, but certainly are a welcome change from the old bus driving across the country scenes in the previous games. The other addition to career mode is that at the end of certain sets you have to enter battle mode with another guitarist. By now most people know that Tom Morello and Slash are the two real guitarists who you battle against in the game. Both contributed original guitar compositions for their battle sections and can be unlocked as avatars in the game.
The playing experience itself is much the same, though it seems the game is even more forgiving in the timing of when you play notes than even GH2 was and hammer-ons and pull-offs are also very easy to do. For experienced players this will obviously make the game easier in some respects, but at the same time the note structure has been mixed up a bit and the later songs are pretty challenging on Hard and Expert.
While the multiplayer aspect adds a lot more playability to the game at the same time the core of the experience remains the songs and for this game there are even more original songs than before and the song list is pretty great.
Overall GH3 rocks the house in much the same way as the previous games, but with the addition of some new features it doesn't feel like more of the same. Multiplayer adds a new aspect that should give the game a lot more life overall between those times when you get your friends over to the house.
Here is the list of tracks by the original artists (or in the case of Talk Dirty to Me, original vocalist) used in the game. This doesn't include the bonus tracks by the less well known artists.
"Talk Dirty to Me" - Poison (Vocals re-recorded by Bret Michaels)
"Bulls on Parade" - Rage Against the Machine
"When You Were Young" - The Killers
"Miss Murder" - AFI
"Lay Down" - Priestess
"Paint It, Black" - The Rolling Stones
"Anarchy in the U.K." - Sex Pistols (re-recorded)
"Kool Thing" - Sonic Youth
"My Name Is Jonas" - Weezer
"Even Flow" - Pearl Jam
"Same Old Song and Dance" - Aerosmith
"Welcome to the Jungle" - Guns N' Roses
"Cherub Rock" - The Smashing Pumpkins
"The Metal" - Tenacious D
"Before I Forget" - Slipknot
"Stricken" - Disturbed
"3's & 7's" - Queens of the Stone Age
"Knights of Cydonia" - Muse
"Cult of Personality" - Living Colour (re-recorded)
"Raining Blood" - Slayer
"The Number of the Beast" - Iron Maiden
"One" - Metallica
--Co-Op Campaign--
"Sabotage" - Beastie Boys
"Reptilia" - The Strokes
"Suck My Kiss" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Helicopter" - Bloc Party
"Monsters" - Matchbook Romance |
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