Guitar Hero 3 for Playstation 2: The Review Part 2.

Hello again. I am back with the rest of the review of the amazing game known as Guitar Hero 3. The setlist and career mode are pretty different this time around. So, I decided to talk about those things today.

First, the songs for this game are different that the past Guitar hero games. The most exciting part about the songs is that a lot of them are recorded by the artists that originally made them instead of some cover band. This makes the in-game songs sound much more like their in-real life versions. For instance, in Guitar Hero 2, I was pissed off that the Guitar Hero version of Avenged Sevenfold's "Beast and the Harlot" was different from the original. Now, my favorite song in Guitar Hero 3, "Knights of Cydonia", doesn't have to go through that. this is because Muse rerecorded KoC for Guitar Hero 3. Another change is that frets come earlier in this game, starting to appear widely in the last 3 levels of Medium.

Another difference in this game is the Career mode. The career mode in this game has you as a band trying to succeed in the music business. Then, you get this wild manager named Lou, who guides you through all of the shows and such. But, after the band has fully broken out, the boss really insults them by calling them hasbeens. This causes the band to "can", or get rid of, the manager. Then, the bad part comes. Turns out, when you signed a contract with the manager, you didn't read the last part, which states the following:

Your souls are mine.

Ouch. So, you go to hell and after completing the final level of songs, you face your manager in a Boss Battle that will keep you playing Guitar Hero 3 for a while. Now, about the boss battles. In Career mode, you have 3 boss battles. Your opponents are Tom Morello, Slash, and Lou (in that order respectively). The first one is pretty easy, once you get the hang of Battles. Slash seems like a huge challenge, but once again, he is somewhat easy if you are good at Battles. Then comes Lou. Lou is pretty hard. here are my three tips on beating him:

1. If you keep missing a lot of notes, try not focusing on one note and just try and hit the rest. That is, unless you need to hit that note for a Power Gem.
2. Time your Power Gems so that Lou won't get his Power Gems. Otherwise, he will time them perfectly and wreck you.
3. This one might have been pure luck, but use Slash. Every time I used Axel Steel, I failed against Lou. But, once I used Slash, I found myself beating Lou on the first try.

So overall, I think Guitar Hero is a great game to follow up Guitar hero 2, which was also good, but not on caliber with its sequel.