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| From: Activision
Category: Video Games
Buy New: £69.99
New (6) Used (2) from £60.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 118
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.8
Dimensions (in): 28 x 11.5 x 2.6
MPN: 95125
EAN: 5030917048876
ASIN: B000X1BF2S
Release Date: November 23, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Guitar Hero Wii July 21, 2008
What a fantastic game. I cannot say how this compares to any of the other consoles, but the whole family have being playing this game at every opportunity since I bought it for my daughter. The only problem is that my 13 year old consistently beats me! This is just so easy to pick up and go, even for non gamers (myself) and yet has loads of longevity in it. You can always tell a good game when you find yourself thinking of ways to improve your score on the drive home from work!
Proof a game can be fun without shooting! July 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A few weeks ago someone brought the game "Rock Band" to work on their 360 and we all had a great time bashing away rather badly at the songs on offer; nothing motivates you to try hard like letting your buddies down! Back at home though I only have a Wii so opted to get Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, partly to practice so that I'll be on form for next time we get to rock out at work, and partly because it was just good fun!
So, in the box you get the game itself, and the wireless guitar controller. This is in contrast to some other consoles where the guitars have to be plugged in with a wire. At first it takes a little getting used to as you still have to go through the startup menu before getting into the game, and as your Wiimote is now nestled in the guitar you have to use a different set of controls, mounted on the guitar faceplate itself. Once you get the hang of it though it's quite easy, and in no time at all you'll be rockin' away!
So on to the game itself. I went through all of the tutorials and here I think they could have done a tiny bit better; the tutorials themselves are helpful (and at times comical) but if you need to repeat a lesson there's no option to skip through the talk-y bits and get straight on to the practice bits. Other than that though, very good.
Next on to career mode, again interspersed with fun scenes that chart the rise of your career. You can also customize your rocker with different outfits, guitars, etc in the store, but so far as I can tell these are purely cosmetic rather than affecting gameplay. A neat feature is that you can buy additional songs though, and I'm hoping we'll be able to access new downloadable tracks from the Wii store as PS3 and 360 players can do already.
The game itself is fairly well known; hold down the fret keys and strum in time with the music. What makes it so much fun though is that even on easy mode it's a challenge and they've got the balancing absolutely perfect. What's funny is that when you first start (even on easy) there'll be bits of songs that you'll think to yourself are absolutely impossible. A few hours of practice later though, and your fingers will be moving for you with your brain totally disconnected. This is a game you absolutely must try playing at a friend's house if you're in any way sceptical, it is great fun.
A couple of tips; at first you'll find it very difficult to do anything other than stare at the screen intently. Remember to blink! I got very sore eyes playing this the first couple of times. You'll also find that even minor distractions around you can throw you off, but this will improve in time. One thing that is slightly tricky is activating "Star Power" on the Wii; basically sometimes there'll be starred notes in a sequence. Hit them all on time and you'll get power added to your star meter. Once you have enough of this you violently tilt your guitar upwards to activate "Star Power" which doubles your score for a short period. Thing is though, it's pretty difficult to fling your guitar skywards in the middle of a tune without losing your rhythm, which means you lose accuracy and score multiplier anyway. Fortunately there is an alternative; just hit the "minus / -" key just below the strum bar. If you can get in the habit of doing that you might have more luck.
I have yet to try this out in multiplayer so can't really comment but if it's anywhere as good as Rock Band was then it should be great! Enjoy!
Rock On!!! July 6, 2008
This is such an amazing game. Just slip your Wii controller into the guitar and rock away! There are so many different songs on this game that even if your not into your music you will at least recognise one. Really easy to get the hang of and career mode is really fun to play making you feel like a real rocker, hehe. This is a must have to have in your games collection.
Guitar Hero III for WII Rocks June 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't know what the reviewers who say this game is in mono are talking about. It says Pro Logic II on the box and thats exactly what the game is. You can't miss it especially whan you go into power up mode on the career option.
Fantastic game that keeps me playing for hours.
 Rocking The George Formby June 26, 2008
34 out of 35 found this review helpful
I bought Guitar Hero III for the Wii a couple of weeks ago. Being an competent if unremarkable guitarist I was curious to see how playing Guitar Hero compared with 'the real thing'.
My initial feelings were a) I look ridiculous playing a plastic ukulele and b) I really should be practising my guitar instead of a guitar simulator. The initial choice of songs was underwhelming; Foghat (meh), Poison (dear God no), Pat Benatar (m'kay), Cream and a few I had never heard of. On the plus side there was Alice Cooper's 'Schools Out'. (I'm always partial to a bit of vintage Vince.) After five or ten minutes figuring out how to synchronise pressing the buttons with the fingers on my left hand with pressing the strum bar with my right hand, I was away and happily playing along on the Easy Level mode.
Compare this with the learning curve when playing a real guitar. Your fingers will hurt due to the strange contortions you are forced to make, the wire strings give you calluses, and your family and neighbours may not appreciate the distorted cat-in-a-mangle noises you are making. Playing a recognisable song is bloody hard work.
However, learning and then playing songs is an immensely satisfying experience in both cases. You don't quite get that oomph you have with an amped up real guitar, but then the GH III ukulele won't give you backache.
There were a few minor annoyances:
1) The playlist is a bit limiting. If you like mainstream classic rock than you'll love the music in the game. The Bloc Party, Stone Roses and Kaiser Chiefs songs seem, I don't know, out of sorts; shoehorned in to appeal to those who might want to play the game but feel ambivalent about Heart, Foghat or Slayer. If you want something a bit different then you are scuppered with the Wii version since other songs cannot be downloaded. A future release that can automatically generate fingerings for any given piece of music would be fantastic, Mr Activision.
2) The avatars aren't to my taste. You have a Bruce Dickinson clone, a JPOP starlet, a Tank Girl, a Hendrix look-alike, a hair metal dolt, Lita Ford's cousin and a KISS-esque fat bloke. The unlockable characters (El Slasho, Mr 'Look At Me Play An Air Raid Siren' Morello from Rage Against The Machine, Lou the Devil and a couple of others) are fine but... These ain't my heroes IYSWIM.
3) Likewise the other members of the band. The singer is always this funny looking bloke in a t-shirt, on bass you have this Derek Smalls/Cousin It cross and at the back beefy guy is always bashing the drums, irrespective of whether you are playing White Zombie, The Strokes or ZZ Top. Band members do tend to dress alike, yunno. If the guitarist looks like an extra from the Rocky Horror Picture show, there is an outside chance that even the brick outhouse drummer is wearing ill-advised lippy.
4) There is no room for improvisation, composition or even playing what you are hearing; you are effectively matching dots on a grid in time to music. That's more fun than it sounds, but still. The number of times I strummed the correct rhythm and got loud clunking noises for my attempts at musicianship are too many to want to recall.
Don't get wrong - I loved the game. It is very easy to just pick up and play, which is more than you can say for a real guitar. Pretty much everyone can do the Easy Level songs without any practice, making the game a winner at parties. You can even rock out with a friend and pretend you are playing to thousands in an enormodome. (The sex and drugs part of the Rawk triumvirate are up to you.) It will inspire you to expand your musical horizons. It might even encourage you to go out and buy a guitar of your own...
Finally, the cost. Other reviewers have stated that 70 is a bit steep. It is, but you are getting a game that will draw you in and give you many months of gameplay, even more if you can persuade a friend or your other half to join you in the co-op career mode. The 'just-one-more-go' aspect is very high.
So is it worth the money? Yes, certainly. It's fun.
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