When I plugged in Guitar Hero III into the Wii a few weeks ago, I started career mode on easy, and instantly I felt challenged. Now, let me be clear, I am not a good Guitar Hero player, I can barely get past the first set on Guitar Hero II on the medium difficulty level, but on Guitar Hero III I can't even pass a single song on medium.
Part of the background about Guitar Hero III is that the original developers Harmonix left that franchise to Neversoft, a new group of developers, and Harmonix started working on Rock Band. Now, from a game player aspect, I definitely enjoyed playing the songs on GH2 much more than on GH3, but I was never a fan of classic and metal rock of the 70s era, and I blame the Neversoft developers (who probably do enjoy that type of music) for picking a ho-hum playlist of songs. In the end credits for GH3, photos of the Neversoft developers appear, and they all appear to be middle-aged balding men of the right age to enjoy the classic rock oldies that make up the bulk of GH3. Sadly there's not many songs on the unlockables that I find interesting.
Interestingly enough, there are songs that appear on both Guitar Hero 3 and Rock Band, and Games Radar did a side by side comparison of their difficulty.
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