You know the last video game that I and my girlfriend sat down and played together was, Tiger Woods '07. I know it's not exactly your typical blowing shit up game but then she never was much into blowing shit up, cleaning shit up, sure, loves it. See the one thing I love about video games is that they allow you to do things that you can't in real life and as any child of the 80's will tell you being a rock star ranks pretty high up on that list.Guitar Hero somehow manages to give the player a small sweet taste of this and while actually learning to play these songs on a real guitar would be a serious pain in the ass playing most songs on Guitar Hero is no easy feat, to begin with at least. Guitar Hero manages to create a fine balance between actually being really hard to master and yet very easy to pick up. If your like me your first go will be terribly embarrassing, although for me it involved more then just missing every other note and also not knowing how to put the strap on a guitar in front of my 2 goth tutors at the time. Even so within 30mins trying to master Barracuda only because it sounds cool and is really not the easiest one to start out on, you'll get it and you'll rip through the whole game on easy mode within a couple of days, if you don't get out much at least.
After that the game increases the difficultly by adding on another button to the list of notes you have to hit for every song you have just done. This is basically how the difficulty works, you'll never really be playing all the notes, unless you get to expert, then I assume you have to as I'm too crap to get that far yet, but you'll always get to play the most important ones and have a real feeling of contributing to the song, because when I say play I mean you do play the notes. If you fluff up a note gratuitous thrown down to you it wont play it and you'll get a hideous duff plunk in it's place, if you let go of a note before your supposed to it will cut out in the music and yes the waa waa bar does actually work and yes if your tone deaf you can use it to destroy sweet child of mine.
Thats the other great thing about this game is the track listings, from Welcome to the Jungle, to Paint it Black to Barracuda, still though I would not have minded some Marilyn Manson but I guess the PlayStation store may yet make my dreams come true, ok ok I dought it very much too, damm you. And in that is why this is an essential purchase because how many games do you have you where you happy to play the same levels over and over again but will still irritate the toss out of you at the simpliest mistake, also any game that you can enjoy as much as your Mrs can't be that bad.
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