ALMOST as exciting as being in a real band! A sure fire game to pick up, if you can afford it!
The game is extremely fun and has different innovations from Guitar Hero. One of the greatest features is that you can create your own rocker, guy or girl, and dress them like you want and adjust their face and body features to try and match yourself. Not too many options tho.. I believe that is what lacks, if they are going to make a create your own character option at least put a few more options into it to create someone that can actually look like you, otherwise its pointless!
The Guitar has a pretty good setup here and I do like how you can monitor your "star rating" in the right corner so you can tell when you are about to hit a 5 star on the song... unlike Guitar Hero 3 where you get a damn good score and then you get a freakin 4 star performance when you've hit like 97% of the notes! This game allows you to monitor how close you are to getting the full 5 star rating.
What I dislike on this game as compared to Guitar Hero 3 is that it doesn't monitor your streak of notes as GH3 does (gh2 did not monitor the streat either). I believe that would be a great feature.
Honestly tho I believe this can very well be one of the greatest party games of all time. As you can play guitar, bass, drums, and mic and get a whole band going and play and download online... the possibilities are endless! This is by far one of the greatest creations in gaming history as there are so many things you can do to keep the game going on and on for months. Problem comes in the $170 price tag plus tax!
BUT, if you only care about playing this gaem for the guitar songs and you already have a GUitar Hero controller, then you can simply get the game by itself and play this just for the guitar riffs, and the GH3 guitar is much better quality than the one that comes with Rock Band.
Snag this game if you get a chance, it will go down in history as one of the greatest if not the GREATEST party game of all time, don't miss out on it!