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Guitar Hero lll: Legends of Rock with Les Paul Guitar Controller (Wii) |
| Date: |
14/08/08 (42 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: Good for single or multiplaying, online capabilities, long lifespan
Disadvantages: Needs second guitar to play multiplayer, can not download new songs.
Having never played a Guitar Hero game before, I was impressed and very happy when I recieved it as a gift.
Upon turning it on I found there are several modes within the game - a solo 'career' mode, a co-operative 'career' mode, a standard multiplayer mode, training, and WIFI mode for internet gaming.
Within the solo career mode one player plays along to the songs on screen using the buttons on the provided guitar controller, which the standard Wii remote slots into to provide connectivity. There are four modes; Easy, Medium, Hard and Expert. As a beginner I found the easy mode quite hard at first but soon picked it up as you only use three of the five buttons in the easy mode, moving up to four in the medium mode and all in the hard and expert modes.
Throughout the game you play along to a selected catalogue of songs, with the occasional 'boss battle' where you have to play against a recognised rock figure. As you play 'gigs' you earn money with which you can buy guitars, songs, and even outfits for your characters.
Co-operative career works more or less exactly the same as solo career, except one user plays guitar and one user plays bass. There are also a few different songs available in the co-operative mode that you can't get in the solo mode.
Within the multiplayer mode you can choose three different options, all of which basically feature two players playing the same song against eachother, using 'power ups' to sabotage their opponents playing and hoping to be the winner by gaining the most points.
Within the training mode you can pick any of the songs from the extensive catalogue and practice on them, slowing down the speed if needed which comes in really handy for some of the harder songs on the higher difficulty levels!
Something that makes this game impressive is the online gaming feature. You can choose to play against either your friends, or strangers in three different modes, similar to the multiplayer mode. You can choose to play against people with a similar skill set to yourself, or against anyone, on whatever difficulty setting you choose and any song.
The one downside that I could find to this game is that you can not download any new songs for it despite the online capabilities. This is a shame as on the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions they release song packs which you can download onto your console. Although the Wii game has quite an extensive song catalogue, once everything is mastered it could possibly get a bit boring, though I'd imagine this would take a huge length of time with the difficulty of some of the songs on the expert mode!
Overall this game is fantastic and definitely value for money, can be found a lot cheaper online than in places such as HMV on the High Street. Great for either single players or playing multiplayer, although you would need to invest in a second guitar controller before being able to play properly!
100% recommend this game to anyone who has a Nintendo Wii, takes a while to pick up how to play it but its definitely worth the effort.
Summary: Fun game well worth the money for any Wii owner.
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