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| Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Bundle | 
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| From: Activision Inc.
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $99.45
New (21) Used (7) from $62.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  184 reviews
Sales Rank: 291
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Color: White
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Wireless bundle
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Size: Guitar Hero Set
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.6
Dimensions (in): 36 x 36 x 36
MPN: 95125
Model: 95125
UPC: 085081814678
EAN: 0047875951259
ASIN: B000TGB4UU
Release Date: October 28, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW - FACTORY SEALED - IN STOCK - Ships quickly with tracking!!
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| Customer Reviews:
 My First GH, My First Day in what looks to be An Addictive Experience (Bring GH2 out 4 the Wii) October 28, 2007
18 out of 25 found this review helpful
I got GH3 the day it was released. This is the first time I've ever played the game, so I played it on easy. With watching the tutorial, taking breaks to eat or whatever, it took me a little less then 7 hours to beat it on easy.
I was tired becuase I got it at midnight and I wanted to stop but it's very addictive, you want to play one more song or beat one more boss, yes bosses! There are three boss battles in the main game against Rage Agains the Machine's Guitar player, against Slash from G n'R, and against Lou (The Devil).
Basically you pick a character, from six availible, and you join a rock band and progress through their career. Basically you play three songs and then the crowd demands an encore, and you can refuse to play and leave but I never did, and you can play a four song after which you'll see a cut scene. The cut scenes are really good animation but they are very short which is probably fine but I wouldn't have minded more of a story and some voice acting may have made it better but that wasn't necessary.
To play a song you push one of five bottons which are your five strings and push the pick lever and you'll hit the note. On easy you only use three strings, or three bottons. With the Wii version unlike the other two you actually insert your Wiimote controller into the back of your guitar and you can see and touch the front of the Wiimote from the front of the guitar, which probably saved the manufactures money on making the device wireless but it also has a fuction, when you miss a note, during a song, or play when there just isn't a target there you hear a missed string sound come from the speaker on your Wiimote controller, which is kind of cool I guess (I don't believe any other versions have a speaker on their guitars).
The game isn't really hard on easy, which makes sense, but for new players it's probably where you'll have to begin. I believe I beat every or almost every song I played on my first try. The boss battles are a little more difficult but not a lot with it taking three tries for each of them. The battles which can also be played verses another player or online verses other human opponents may be fun for a while but the gimmicks you use to battle with don't seem like they will have much lasting appeal. Basically in the battles the screen is split in two with each player having a side and instead of getting Star power, which is a power up in the one player mode, you get attacks like upping the difficulty for example from easy to medium which adds a string/buttom, or flipping the oppents color buttoms/strings on screen upside down, or making the notes flash making them easy to miss, another you have to shake your Whammy bar, and broken string where you must puss the string bottom repeatedly to repair the string, oh and there is a death blow too which kills your opponent I guess.
The lasting appeal is that you can get better scores, beat it on different difficulties (with all the buttons/strings used), and unlock new characters or guitars or songs to play in the freeplay mode. Personally I wish they would have taken the 30ish songs you can buy with cash you earn in the game from playing gigs and instead of just having a buch of songs that can just be played for fun, they would have instead made the game longer. After beating the career mode even on easy there is a minor loss of coolness to it all, but only minor, I'm still going to be playing this thing for a long long time.
Oh I wanted to mention the graphics too, on the Wii the graphics are amazing, possibly even to amazing because on some of the levels they are so beautiful and bright and there is so much to look at you can become distracted, especially for example during songs like Santana's Black Magic Woman where you hold notes for a really long time and in the backgroud your band is rocking out at their desert gig reminisent of Burning Man. I'm not saying it's a coplaint, I'm sure I'll get used to it but people who have played other guitar heroes might think there is too much going on in the backgroud, I don't know.
Finally I am annoyed that the songs with words someone somewhere deems inappropriate are censored, I've never been a fan of art being censored and despite their wanting a Teen rating I still feel it's a undesirable practice. It's not that I wish to hear those words, it's that I believe Art should be experienced the way the Artists created it to be experienced.
Which leads directly into another minor personal complint, the Dead Kennedys is my all time favorite punk band and they have a song in GH3. Or at least you're suppose to believe they do, that guy singing that song isn't Jello Biafra the lead singer of the Dead Kennedys, it's his words but not his voice, and there are probably legal reasons why it's not him, but I wont go into it.
This is an amazing fun experiece, think DDR for your fingers except with rock, very addictive and cool. It's not the cheapest thing out there but you'll have hundreds of hours of fun playing through this trying to unlock and buy everything and master Expert mode.
Now will the creators of Guitar Hero PLEASE RELEASE GUITAR HERO 2 on the Wii (I need more and I want to play those songs)!!
Life in Mono November 30, 2007
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
Guitar Hero 3 is great, however there are some problems with this particular version.
First, let me point out the obvious. This is the first and only Guitar Hero game for any Nintendo system. Currently only Rock Band Special Edition has been released for Wii, there are no plans for any of the three other Guitar Hero games will come to Wii. In other words this is the only game in town for GH on the Wii and sadly the game plays songs only in Mono. This means if you have a fancy surround system, the music would only come out of the center speaker. You can rig it up so that the same mono sound comes out of other speakers, but that is not even an approximation of Dolby Pro Logic II. This is a negative, but shouldn't really prevent anyone from picking this game up.
The game itself is still as good as Guitar Hero 2 Bundle with Guitar or Guitar Hero (Game Only). In fact I would say that generally on the same difficulty level this game is a bit harder that the others. The set list, like the others, is a combination of classic and modern music. This is an online game, so you can play against people online and they claim that at some point additional songs will be available to purchase (not likely).
The new feature for this one is the battle mode. In these special boards you will face off with Slash, Tom Morello, etc... and instead of star power you get attacks to use against your opponent. It is well done, but since it is only a few songs it doesn't play a major part in the game.
The Gibson branded guitar looks great and the Wii-mote actually plugging into it allows for better tilt functions. Also it rumbles and sound comes out of the controller, though it is rarely used (rumble for star power and speaker mostly for missed notes) it does put this version over the other guitars.
The big negative is the mono sound from the game. Even though the packaging clearly says Dolby Pro Logic 2, it is only in that sound format for the menus and whatnot. [On 12/6/07 Activision acknowledged this bug and offers a disk exchange.]
Since this is a music game, the mono sound is a negative, but really it shouldn't prevent anyone from picking this up. There will be a disk exchange coming in the future [I totally called that one], in the meantime, rock on.
EDIT: Here is the press release from Activision spokeswoman Rhy-Ming Poon:
"We recently became aware that some consumers have not been able to enjoy the full audio output in the Nintendo Wii version of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. We are currently working with Nintendo and are planning to issue an improved audio experience in future versions of the game. We expect to have re-mastered discs available by early 2008 and we will be offering consumers replacement discs at no cost once they become available. We thank all of our customers for their support and patience."
 FAKE ITEM November 12, 2007
14 out of 65 found this review helpful
So, according to paradise_valley_n_freedom_books this is item is "FOR XBOX SYSTEM ONLY", but it is "COMPLETE NINTENDO WII GUITAR HERO SET"
Last time I checked the Nintendo Wii version doesn't work on the xbox.
Looks more like this is a completely fake item.
 FUN - But there is a bug in the WII version. November 15, 2007
13 out of 39 found this review helpful
This could have been a great game but Wii owners note - there is a bug in the Wii version which Activision has not addressed (and may not address) and it's a pretty major one:
Apparently the Wii version of GH3 is NOT in STEREO (mono only). Has something to do with the Pro Logic II decoding problem (or maybe they thought they could just release it that way and get away with it).
For a game based upon Music this is unacceptable. Please research this on your own by typing in "Wii Guitar Hero bug" or "Wii Guitar Hero Mono" into any search engine. MAJOR oversight and quality problem for Activision. Also a problem for Nintendo as I am getting sick of getting second rate games on this console. After Wii Sports, what really else is there? EA didn't even make NHL 08' for it and they had over a year to do so.
There is no HOCKEY game for the Wii yet and it is considered a major sport behind Football, Baseball & Basketball. Come on Nintendo give some incentives to your developers to fill out your lineup with some decent games and not junk. One can only play so many mini-game gimmick titles before wanting to buy a PS3 or XBOX 360.
Nintendo - these crappy titles will ultimately hurt the Wii.
Also, I am dissapointed about the focus on "Satanic" songs and images in the GH3 release. They could have easily chosen another storyline for the game. I think I will pass on this one - and I had it on my list.
 For me a spectacular introduction to the series March 15, 2008
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
I'm someone who had never played Guitar Hero 1 or 2 before I bought Guitar Hero 3 for the Wii. I can't really compare it previous versions of the game, nor can I compare it to the other systems' versions of Guitar Hero 3. What I can do is give a viewpoint to what this game is like to someone just playing this series for the first time.
The sound is a big part of what this game is about, and obviously I'm talking about the sound track in large part. Of the incredibly varied list of songs, over 70 in all, I enjoyed most of them. There are a few songs in the bonus track listing that I don't even both to play because the music just isn't good, but overall still far more hits than misses. As a first time Guitar Hero player a big thumbs up for the soundtrack, though there's certainly room to improve in future versions.
Now on to the gameplay. There is certainly a substatial learning curve for new players. Obviously you start with easy mode, which isn't bad as begininer song. Then on medium where three four chords are used, and hard where five are used. The practice mode is very helpful, and if you want to get good you'll have to spend a lot of time there. I haven't even gottent to expert and I've had the game for a few months. It's very much an experience that's very fun and challenging, no matter what your skill level. The controls are perfectly responsive, obeviously important for the harder difficulties.
In the end I can't get enough of this game. The Wii wireless guitar works great, with the sound coming out of the Guitar and a rumble feature on star power (things apparently not available in other versions of the game. It's powered by the Wiimote inside the guitar shell, but doesn't use battery life as fast as you might fear. As a first time Guitar Hero player I have to give this my highest recomendation. Minor issues aside (not that impressive of visuals and some crappy songs) it's a great experience.
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