The Guitar Hero series reinvented itself with the release of Guitar Hero: World Tour in late 2008, which attempted to capitalise on the success of their main competior, Rock Band, who had introduced drums and vocal play to the excellent guitar play established by the Guitar Hero games. Though not without its flaws, World Tour was a great game, yet the fifth game in the series doesn't really do anything to innovate the idea further and as a result this is the most underwhelming entry into the series so far, not aided by its fairly dull set list. There are a few improvements, though; the clunky menus of the previous game have been fixed, meaning that players can ...  Read the complete review

Guitar Hero 5 was set to improve on Guitar Hero: World Tour and fix the little issues that had started to annoy people. I can honestly say that Guitar Hery 5 has succeeded in doing that, and yet I can't say I enjoy playing it very much - in fact, I've played it for only a few hours since buying it, and now it stays in it's case while Guitar Hero: World Tour has the privilege of actually staying in my Playstation 3. This is because, quite honestly, the songs on Guitar Hero 5 just don't compare to those on GH:WT. I find myself playing the few good songs on GH5 over and over in "Quickplay" mode, just to avoid actually progressing in "Career" ...  Read the complete review

Guitar Hero 5 (GH5) is published by Activision and is rated PG. You can play 1-4 players on one PS3 or up to 8 players online. the picture is output at 720P high definition, rather than the higher 1080P. I bought this version as the standalone game, as I already had a guitar controller (Les Paul). The idea of the game is to play along to the music tracks, pressing the correct buttons and guitar strummer in time to the music. There on-screen graphics show you the performance and the notes you have to hits scroll down the screen. Throughout the various versions, not a lot has changed. However, each new game brings a new updated track listing. The ...  Read the complete review

Guitar Hero 5 is the latest installment of the Guitar Hero series which is great for playing with mates, either with all of the peripherals (guitar, drums, bass, microphone) or just with the guitar trying to beat your mates' scores. As with every game in this series the tracklist contains some great songs which you will enjoy playing along to, such as Smells Like Teen Spirit, Bleed American and Rock Show. Even some of the stranger selections (Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting, Superstition) are great to play and very enjoyable. You do get the sense of over familiarity if you have played any of the previous games but if it isn't broke there's no need to fix it and the  Read the complete review