Games! Games! Games!

Was looking at a Best Buy flyer today… holy crap. Guitar Hero III hit shelves today; The Simpsons and Naruto and a few other games hit this Tuesday or Wednesday… so much eye candy, I dunno what to do!

Well, kinda – I did head out to Target this morning… *g*

I did pick up GH3 [for the 360] today – the demo was pretty decent so I figured it would be worth picking up the game, since I’ve already got two X-plorer controllers from GH2… then I saw that the game was $59 – the wireless guitar bundle was $99. Uh. Right. Anyway, I swung by Target and came home with the bundle.

The new guitar is pretty good. I’m sorta irked that it will only take AA batteries, since I have a few extra controller batteries, and if feels very different than the original controller because change in shape. I’ve also had to hold the guitar differently because it’s very aware of Star Power: I find myself having to hold the guitar almost completely horizontally, rather than the “rock out” hold I used to use on the GH2 – those guitars need a really shake to active… I like the newer controller because it’s more sensitive – you can also change out the face plates and pop the neck off for easier storage (which means it will probably fly back with me this Christmas.)

Game wise, I’ve finished one set on Career mode and one ranked online game. My fingers are already sore.

Medium is as hard as Hard was on GH2 except that it only uses four buttons. That is a good thing. I have a mental block on the five buttons so I always played Medium but Medium on GH2 seemed a lil… watered down. I found myself getting dinged because I’d want to play more notes and I wasn’t supposed to. The Medium on GH3 follows the music far more accurately. I also like the fact that they got cover bands that sound a lot like the real bands (when they can’t get the real ones) – in GH and GH2 it was so-so. I guess they got more budget this time around: the bands sound good.

The online experience was dicey. I couldn’t find an unranked game to join so I tried ranked and ended up playing Metallica’s One on Expert. I sucked so bad, I swallowed my own forehead. Needless to say, I didn’t get one bit of star power and I think I sprained my pinkie finger.

The new Battle Mode I haven’t tried out yet, but Anibal played it via the Demo this week and was surprised that it was good. I’ll admit that I was skeptical of it… now I’m curious enough to want to try it out.

In addition to this I’m only 29% through Beautiful Katamari, only just start PGR4, haven’t dropped in The Orange Box yet, still need to buy the full version of Puzzle Quest and Battlestar Galactica, and still want a lil silver star for Halo 3.

What’s a Geek to do?!


4 thoughts on “Games! Games! Games!”

  1. Im back on Xbox Live. Gammertag is Dreakon99x, I was gonna wait to get a headset, but I couldnt hold out any longer. Send me a friend request, Im not sure what your going by these days.


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