Guitar Hero 3 Review
Written by Mckin
Nintendo gets a Guitar Hero! The game is just like the others, we all expected that, but the Wii has some bonuses, although some drawbacks as well. First off let’s just mention the obvious, the price is $10 less, the guitar is white, and a wiimote fits inside of it. Now onto the game.
The song list for GH3 is much longer then previous GH games although ‘Legends of Rock’ probably wasn’t the best title. Many songs are far from legends and many real legends were excluded such as Jimi Hendrix. Although with such a large song list I feel it makes up for it somewhat except the Wii can’t download additional songs yet, although that could always change in the future.
New to the game is the concept of Boss Battles which I found a new challenge. You play vs mode against the CPU pretty much but with ‘battle power’ not star power, and the object is to make the boss fail the song before it finishes. My first battle I proved victorious but the concept is nice and provided a challenge later on against the next 2 bosses. A bonus to beating the boss is there’s an encore after him in which he’ll play along. Treating you to the guitarist’s talents but not unlocking him to use until you buy him from the shop.
Online has also been enabled which I was first nervous about going on it. I’m not close to expert and was assuming I’d lose, and lose bad but the game makes it easy to set up what your looking for or what you want to host, choosing friend or stranger, difficulty, game type, and # of songs to play. The WFC seems to move fairly quickly with GH which is always a nice bonus.
All in all I’d say the game is nice and a great way to pass time or entertain yourself. I picked it up since I was board and just put it down long enough to write a simple review. Enjoy, maybe you’ll even pick up a few roadies with your mad skills.
PS. For a little added pleasure try hyper mode, Orange, Blue, Orange, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Orange, Yellow in the cheat menu.
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Games, movies measure up: who's the biggest?
Games, movies measure up: who's the biggest?
Me! Me! No, me!
By Mike Smith
A new report from UK-based retail analysts Verdict would have us believe that sales of video games and related products are set to outpace music and video takings by an impressive-sounding 4.6 billion pounds ($7.3 billion) this year -- but how do top-selling movies and video games rack up in on the global stage?
Critically-acclaimed thriller The Dark Knight ranks at the top of the movie charts for the year so far, ushering close on a billion dollars through box office tills around the world. Set that against Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV, so far 2008's best-selling video game, and it's a tight race. Although GTA passed the half-billion mark in just a week, a feat that took Dark Knight much longer, video games just don't have the staying power of a great movie. GTA ought to finish out the year within striking distance of Dark Knight, but it's going to be a close-run race.
Those two are outliers, of course -- but three other 2008 movies have already topped the $500 million mark at the world's box offices thus far, and it's only the cream of the video-game crop that can hit those heights. Wii Fit certainly did, with its $90 price-tag (and it's already tipped to outsell GTA by the end of the year). The year's other top sellers, EA's Madden 09, Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Mario Kart Wii are all in with a chance, but it's by no means a shoe-in.
But as with many of these comparisons, the outcome all depends on how you slice it. GTA's debut was a mammoth achievement, but for every $60 paid by gamers for Grand Theft Auto, four movie-goers could have seen Dark Knight, and they'd still have had money for popcorn. Conversely, although Dark Knight certainly ran long, it's nothing next to the 20 or 30 hours of entertainment an average gamer might get out of Grand Theft Auto.
Box office counts also don't give us a great impression of the overall power of a movie's economic impact. They don't include DVD sales, for one thing: Dark Knight's DVD and Blu-Ray versions will be in stores in December, and you can bet they're going to be turning up under a great many trees this holiday season. Dark Knight will still be shifting boxes long after gamers, with their notoriously short attention spans, have abandoned GTA for the next big thing.
But there's one four-year-old video game that still dwarfs the best the movie industry has to offer: World of Warcraft. With over 11 million subscribers, its maker Blizzard surely grosses well over $1 billion annually just for keeping the game ticking over -- and that's before you take into account the doubtless impressive sales figures its newest expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King, will generate. Those are figures that would make even George Lucas raise his eyebrows.
Gerald Lacey
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Me! Me! No, me!
By Mike Smith
A new report from UK-based retail analysts Verdict would have us believe that sales of video games and related products are set to outpace music and video takings by an impressive-sounding 4.6 billion pounds ($7.3 billion) this year -- but how do top-selling movies and video games rack up in on the global stage?
Critically-acclaimed thriller The Dark Knight ranks at the top of the movie charts for the year so far, ushering close on a billion dollars through box office tills around the world. Set that against Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV, so far 2008's best-selling video game, and it's a tight race. Although GTA passed the half-billion mark in just a week, a feat that took Dark Knight much longer, video games just don't have the staying power of a great movie. GTA ought to finish out the year within striking distance of Dark Knight, but it's going to be a close-run race.
Those two are outliers, of course -- but three other 2008 movies have already topped the $500 million mark at the world's box offices thus far, and it's only the cream of the video-game crop that can hit those heights. Wii Fit certainly did, with its $90 price-tag (and it's already tipped to outsell GTA by the end of the year). The year's other top sellers, EA's Madden 09, Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Mario Kart Wii are all in with a chance, but it's by no means a shoe-in.
But as with many of these comparisons, the outcome all depends on how you slice it. GTA's debut was a mammoth achievement, but for every $60 paid by gamers for Grand Theft Auto, four movie-goers could have seen Dark Knight, and they'd still have had money for popcorn. Conversely, although Dark Knight certainly ran long, it's nothing next to the 20 or 30 hours of entertainment an average gamer might get out of Grand Theft Auto.
Box office counts also don't give us a great impression of the overall power of a movie's economic impact. They don't include DVD sales, for one thing: Dark Knight's DVD and Blu-Ray versions will be in stores in December, and you can bet they're going to be turning up under a great many trees this holiday season. Dark Knight will still be shifting boxes long after gamers, with their notoriously short attention spans, have abandoned GTA for the next big thing.
But there's one four-year-old video game that still dwarfs the best the movie industry has to offer: World of Warcraft. With over 11 million subscribers, its maker Blizzard surely grosses well over $1 billion annually just for keeping the game ticking over -- and that's before you take into account the doubtless impressive sales figures its newest expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King, will generate. Those are figures that would make even George Lucas raise his eyebrows.
Gerald Lacey
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Buy 'em now! Select games already facing holiday shortages
Select games already facing holiday shortages
Buy 'em now!
Select games already facing holiday shortages
By Mike Smith
Have you started your holiday shopping yet? Chances are, if you're anything like us, it's still a long way off, but you could already have missed the boat on a few of this holiday season's top gaming gifts.
Chief among the culprits is Activision's Guitar Hero: World Tour, which adds drums and vocals to the enormously popular music game series. Following an investor conference call this week it emerged that World Tour is virtually sold out at present, and Activision considers it unlikely that it'll be able to get enough copies to stores to meet holiday demand.
The woes don't stop there for shoppers. One analyst recently tipped Wii Fit as becoming the biggest selling game of the year over the holiday season, and it's already hard to find. Coming with a custom balance board controller and the promise of a fun way to lose weight, it's spectacularly popular with non-traditional gamers, and the demand is pushing Ebay prices well over the $89.99 retail price. Some online and brick-and-mortar stores still have stock, although it'd be wise to be quick.
What of the Wii itself, which proved one of the hardest gifts to find for the last two holiday seasons running? In an interview last month, Nintendo's American president Reggie Fils-Aime was hopeful the company would be able to meet demand, and the company is shipping Wiis at a rate 50% higher than this time last year. Will it be enough? Given that the Wii is selling considerably faster now than it was back then, we're not holding out much hope. If you're hoping to have one under your tree this year, now's the time to start looking.
Gerald Lacey
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Buy 'em now!
Select games already facing holiday shortages
By Mike Smith
Have you started your holiday shopping yet? Chances are, if you're anything like us, it's still a long way off, but you could already have missed the boat on a few of this holiday season's top gaming gifts.
Chief among the culprits is Activision's Guitar Hero: World Tour, which adds drums and vocals to the enormously popular music game series. Following an investor conference call this week it emerged that World Tour is virtually sold out at present, and Activision considers it unlikely that it'll be able to get enough copies to stores to meet holiday demand.
The woes don't stop there for shoppers. One analyst recently tipped Wii Fit as becoming the biggest selling game of the year over the holiday season, and it's already hard to find. Coming with a custom balance board controller and the promise of a fun way to lose weight, it's spectacularly popular with non-traditional gamers, and the demand is pushing Ebay prices well over the $89.99 retail price. Some online and brick-and-mortar stores still have stock, although it'd be wise to be quick.
What of the Wii itself, which proved one of the hardest gifts to find for the last two holiday seasons running? In an interview last month, Nintendo's American president Reggie Fils-Aime was hopeful the company would be able to meet demand, and the company is shipping Wiis at a rate 50% higher than this time last year. Will it be enough? Given that the Wii is selling considerably faster now than it was back then, we're not holding out much hope. If you're hoping to have one under your tree this year, now's the time to start looking.
Gerald Lacey
www.myebooksresell.com
sales@myebooksresell.com
http://myebooksresell.com/NINTENDO_Wii_Console.html
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