Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is a lot of fun. It’s great rocking out to songs like “Rock and Roll All Night,” and “School’s Out for Summer.” Although the button combinations get a little old after awhile, it still a great way to rock. This may be a weird complaint, but the characters all look ugly or dorky, and some just plain freaky. I would love it if we could play as our own Mii characters. That would be awesome. Two player would be a lot of fun… if they had come out with a second controller when the game was first released! Just now I am starting to find companies releasing 2nd guitars, but they’re pretty expensive.

You can play Guitar Hero without a guitar. It has advantages and disadvantages. An advantage is that you don’t have to strum so you can focus more on blazing through button combinations. A disadvantage is it’s hard to remember which buttons are which for notes and it’s just not as much fun as having a guitar in your hands.

Each stage you have four songs to choose from. If you do a song well, you also have encores. Each time you unlock a new stage (not only a new stage as in level, but an actual new ’stage’ to rock on), you get another four songs. Through career mode, you unlock songs and money. You can use your money to go buy new gear. I think it’s hilarious when they’re giving you little virtual slips of paper with bills that total money earned less all your expenses from life on the road, like when you get billed for trashing a hotel. I would love in the next Guitar Hero if you could virtually trash the hotel your getting billed for.

The one design flaw I found was, that unlike the new Wii Wheel for Mario Kart, you really have to either grab another controller, if you have one, or take the controller out of the guitar to easily use the Wii Menu. It does have a toggle but you have to be holding the guitar at just the right angle for it to work.

I want to review Wii online play, but, due to technical difficulties with my cousins Wii in Arizona, we only got to rock out for a few seconds – BUT THOSE SECONDS WERE AWESOME!!! Hopefully we’ll figure out the glitch and go through our gaming selection, play all the games with Wi-Fi and do a separate review.

My Dad is a guitar player, spent years at school studying music. Let me tell you, in no way does this give him an advantage over me who cannot play the ‘real’ guitar at all. My Uncle, who is an original geek, can kick my dad’s butt on Guitar Hero. Even when my Dad’s on Medium level of Hardness and my Uncle is on Expert. Dad, I’d still rather know how to play the real guitar if I could, don’t worry.

If you’re a hardcore rocker, or a music lover of any kind (like me who likes to play air-guitar), I would buy this in a heart-beat.

• Play Ability 8 stars ********
• Graphics 7 stars *******
• Wiimote Usage 4 stars ****
• Longevity 8 stars ********
• Sound 10 stars **********
• Overall 8 stars ********