Zero Punctuation smashes Guitar Hero III

good review.
The boss battles were an interesting idea, but with 3 bosses, it's very lame. They should have atleast had a bunch of fictional guitarists that resembled some of the real guitarists out there.

In my opinion, Rock Band got everything right! and Guitar Hero 3 went the safe boring route.

Wow, I did not take Yahtzee as a Guitar Hero fan... was I missing the sarcasm? Glad he disliked it like I did, though I'm surprised he didn't rip it any more.

I love the song selection in GH3, but the difficulty level of gh3 just turns me off too much. I think gh2 had the difficulty perfect, the last group of hard songs required *SOME* practice, but now that I'm in the last level of hard in gh3, I see some of the songs and just say F this. The difficulty is too hard, and it turns people off.

Eh, me personally, I welcome GHII being harder. I welcome the challenge. Except when trying to 5-star all the songs. That's just a pain. But actually completing the game is still fun for me.

well shit, in order to be able to play on Expert.... you should be an EXPERT. I thought he didn't like how easy games were now?

Funny stuff though.

lols cock slapping the mona lisa!

For God's sake, X3F, stop posting this unfunny crap. It's just boring.

Clive Winston was the best. I asked about this and was told that that one Hendrix-type guy is the new "70s character"... oh well.

In any case, I won't be watching this lol.

You know he does have his own RSS feed... we don't need weekly reminders from every frickin news site...

Hahah after watching it again I noticed the split second where "JERKS" points at gamespot at the bottom of the screen (when explaining the changes made when harmonix left)

I miss Pandora.

So this guy just sucks at the game and you assholes are jizzing all over his review because he talks fast in a british accent?

Too hard? Turn down the difficulty setting durrr hurrr

Furthermore, I fail to see how you can say guitar hero 3 is bad while at the same time praise guitar hero 2. It's the same shit. Only difference is the difficulty. Other than that, the nots come up and you hit them.

Where is the fun if they keep it the same difficulty? Then anyone who owned the first one would just pick it up, beat all the songs on the first try and be done with the game in 6 hours. Oh that's right, it's trendy to hate sequels. Also the man who talks fast said so, so it must be right

...cock slapping the Mona Lisa...

^_^I lol'd.

Anyone noticed the 'Jerks' over the Gamespot logo? Heh.

Good review...fun and straight to the point.

He is dead on in my case. I am stuck on the last 3 songs on hard and they don't require practice to complete: they require another arm! At least it drove me to try Expert just so I could get more money for songs and I discovered that I could actually play expert quite well and the increased speed made it even more fun, though on expert I got stuck some where in the middle and I don't think I'll be completeing that anytime soon.

I'm just wonder if anyone else finds that the faster the notes are and the more there are the easier the game actually gets. I play drums and the guitar hero games have so much more to do with rhythm that actual guitar, so by knowing when to put in triplets and use the fret board both up and down made expert and hard a more comfurtable experience than medium, where I felt as though I was playing off by just a hair.

I think you will find in the last particularly practice is all that is needed

raining blood, the hard part is Mosh 1, yes?
just spend a bit getting the fingering right so you can hit 50% or so of the notes then just use the star power

one solo? again, star power in the many triplets bit, like mosh 1 but in reverse, easier too because it's all hammer ons

number of the beast i'm betting is the other one. turn up the sound and get the strumming right, it's all about being in time

maybe it's just easier because I play actual instruments.

while i'm here might aswell respond to #20.

You're shitting me, right? You're complaining about characters? Do are aware that this game consists of see circle, push button, right? Everything else is just to make it seem like you're paying for more than an interactive CD. You complain that they put in a song? There's what, 76 songs on it? That's quite a lot. More than rock band at any rate. They could have taken out ruby and your whole fucking arguments would have been gone and there would still be a lot of songs.

That's all it comes down to. The songs and the difficulty. That's all these games ever are. You like the songs, you said it yourself. So play on the right difficulty and quit your bitching. You've made it clear you just like hating on things to look cool and against the grain. Probably influenced by the fast british speak too in this case.

The reason he can't beat raining blood is because you have to PRACTICE it. Do you think Kerry King just picked up a guitar and just played Raining Blood? No. Neither did any of the people who can beat Raining Blood on Guitar Hero. You actually had to practice the last set of songs. So get over it you whiner.

I assume he doesn't hook his consoles up to the internet at all (and I know hes not a big multiplayer guy) because there is a patch out for it that adds the coop quick play back in because someone forgot about it.

I guess I'm a freak since I'm on the final boss on expert... It took me a week to go through everything on every difficulty and, while I thought it was harder, I enjoyed the challenge.

If ZP can't beat it on hard it doesn't make it a bad game... Ninja Gaiden was too hard for me but I thought it was a great game... even though I didn't finish it.

Lol, Christ the GH3 fanboys are worse than H3 fanboys. So defensive.

I liked it, always hated GH, hes a bigger man than i, Just cause I'd not stand there like a right tit with a silly toy guitar. I suppose I'll get pounced now and told the guitar is a realistic replicar or some crap. No offence to the game but if i wanted to learn how to play a song, I'd buy a guitar and do it.

this video is so full of win, i don't know where to begin!

Learn to play a real guitar b1tches!!! :-P

Just to add my two pence worth, GHIII was my first foray into the music game world and I happen to think it's the shit!

As expected, some of the songs aren't really to my taste (can't please all the people all the time) but the majority of them kick arse.

Got through Easy on my first attempt, 4-5 stars for most songs. 5 starred them all without much trouble. Got through Medium on my first attempt, only struggling with the Boss Battles (which I hate, I just want to play the songs) all 5 starred now except Raining fucking Blood.

So I thought the difficulty curve (at least from Easy to Medium) was just right.

Tried the first song on Hard and got through it ok so I might have to give that a go now!

Very well said Puddin.

Seconded, damned Raining Blood is the only song I can't 5 star on Expert

LEGEND of rock is right. Theres only Slash. When you play that Morello guys battle, it sounds like somebody just holding a drill against the guitar strings or a turntable. Thats not a guitar being played.

They should have put Van Halen or Jimi Hendrix in there.

Also, hes completely right about how you get to the end in Hard Mode and Raining Blood and Number of the Beast are absolutley impossible. I still dont know how me and my friends beat One, but I did completely rape Cliffs of Dover. Im not looking forward to that battle with Lou.

I think its a great game though, this guy just finds a way to hate on everything.

@29
The skill level of the games is one of the fewer reasons I dislike this installment.
I can almost 5 star everything on expert same as 1 and 2 but this one just feels empty compared to the others. All in all bonus songs included, I find only about 15 songs are any good at all.
Add to this the new and improved hammer on and pull off system, its been made so just about anyone can do them which is weak. The boss battles are borderlined retarded and the online play is a little worse than that. This game is all but a failure, and it will show as major publications hand out awards and GH3 wins none of them while Rock Band cleans house for innovation, better song selection and fun.
GH3 only sold well based off the success of the last two, but when you get it home and play it you quickly realize that its only half the game two was.

Oh yeah, the one good thing I can say about GH3 is that the new guitar is bad ass, easly the best one to come out to date.

"*Yahtzee is not our pal. We doubt, in fact, that he is anyone's "pal"."

aaawwww, sad that he bashed your precious halo 3?