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Aerosmith flavored Guitar Hero that doesn't offer much

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: July 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Since Activision and Neversoft took control of the Guitar Hero franchise, we've been getting a steady stream of sequels and spin-off's, with Guitar Hero: Aerosmith being the latest game in the series. Featuring a pretty good collection of songs spanning Aerosmith's long career, you'll find that besides adding the Aerosmith-themed presentation, the game itself is basically identical to Guitar Hero III. This isn't really a bad thing, but considering this is a full-priced game, it would have been nice if there would have been a little more overall variations. The track list here is quite good though, with even some bonus tracks from Joe Perry's Joe Perry Project to find and play too, along with some bonus interviews with the band. Where the game falters however is that there isn't going to be any downloadable content, meaning that once you get through the game, there isn't much reason to go back to it. Getting through the game isn't that much of a challenge either if you're a Guitar Hero veteran, as the game proves to be not all that difficult compared to previous Guitar Hero games. It should also go without saying that if you aren't a fan of Aerosmith, this probably isn't for you. All in all, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is an enjoyable diversion that fans of the band will get a lot of enjoyment out of for a while, but in the end, the game doesn't offer enough bang for your buck.

A SOLID RENTAL...AN OWNER ONLY FOR HARDCORE FANS

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: July 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is probably a 5-star game if you're a huge fan!

I'm not, so I rented the game and enjoyed it enough to give it 3-stars. It's essentially the same game (with same tutorial) as Guitar Hero 3. The key differences are: 1) the song selection is much shorter, 2) the song difficulty is much easier...maybe Joe Perry's not the axe-master I always thought he was.

The graphics are fun, they got Steven Tyler's mouth and wardrobe changes down perfectly. During load time there's interviews with the entire band that gives some fun insights into the progression of their career. However, I was shocked that some key Aerosmith hits like "Angel", "Dude Looks Like a Lady", "Janie's Got a Gun", and "Don't Want to Miss a Thing" weren't on the play list. I know some people might comment that they're ballads or too slow and easy to play. Who cares! I'd rather have some easy songs and have the full run of Aerosmith hits than to have 40 songs in total (especially for those paying $60). When you make a game based on a rock group...give us as much of their collection as possible! The game should at least cover the "greatest hits".

A minor annoyance with the entire GH series is dealing with the achievements on the Xbox 360. In Guitar Hero 3 a majority of the achievements are so impossibly hard to get you'd need to be Yngwie Malmsteen to even come close. However, in GH:A I managed to unlock 5 all on one song (when I wasn't even trying). Not sure if the game makers are treating achievements like a joke or what, but I know many gamers use these as a goal to work towards. So for future games it would be nice if some form of balance can be struck and an achievement can manage to be both challenging and obtainable all at the same time.

I still want to give props to the GH franchise for doing a band-centric game. Heck, any game that opens with Cheap Trick's "Dream Police" can't be bad! Hopefully the Young Brothers will open up the AC/DC catalog for a future version. Actually, I'm surprised that the money-making franchise formerly known as "Gene Simmons" doesn't already have a KISS game in the pipes.

Oh well, if you're jonesing for some guitar playing fun then GH:A should keep you entertained for at least 3-7 days. But a full purchase is probably not necessary.

More Like Train Kept A Failin'

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is very similar to Guitar Hero III, which I love.

I just don't feel like Aerosmith is Guitar Hero friendly. It just got boring for me to play. Someone else already said everything I wanted to say. The songs get boring, and some of them are ridiculous. A song featuring Run DMC? What the hell?

Well, whatever. It's definitely not worth the $103 I paid for it and the controller. Ah, the controller, here at least an improvement. The controller is modified (though it doesn't look it)from the wireless one from GH: III. It has the same detachable neck, but it doesn't slide away from the neck. I played all the way through the game tonight with the controller, and never once did I have the problem of the controller not reading the button I was holding. And they also fixed the strum bar, which I found over-sensitive on the previous game.

My verdict, rent it. I hoped for some redeeming value in the bonus songs, but they're all Aerosmith or Joe Perry's solo work. For shame. :(

Try it before you buy it!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Rent the game first, and see for yourself. I was very disappointed. The vault, was almost bare! Too few songs, and Walk This Way had the two versions. With as few songs as there was on the game, there should not have been a duplicate, with or with out the slight variation. There are so many amazing songs that could have been put on this game! I played for two hours, got tired and went back to Guitar Hero 3.

But, the Steven Tyler graphics were great! I loved watching the band while others played!

Unless you absolutely love Aerosmith, it's not worth 60 bucks

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The gameplay and graphics are similar to Guitar Hero 3, which I expected. What I was disappointed with was the number of songs. There are about 40 songs total which can be played in Guitar Hero: Aerosmith as compared to around 70 for its predecessor.

I was also displeased with the difficulty of the game. I played through the game on Expert difficulty without once failing a song. I may be good at the game but I certainly could not do that the first time I played through Guitar Hero 3...or 2. Some of the songs are rather boring to play along with too. Either they are slow or just repetive. You get bored and start missing notes because you just don't care anymore and just want the song to be over.

Most of the achievements are easy to unlock so you can rent the game and accomplish that over a weekend. So unless you are a huge Aerosmith fan I don't recommend buying this game. It is just not worth $60 for almost half the songs as the previous game...although I'll probably make myself a hypocrit when I purchase Guitar Hero: Metallica when it is released early in 2009.

Not worth the money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this via pre-order, so I didn't have a chance to see the setlist before buying it (unless it was published somewhere that I didn't find). I was VERY disappointed with this game. Like the others have said, it's almost exactly like GH3, but with different songs. Also, as previously mentioned, it's extremely easy to beat in comparison to the rest of the games in the GH franchise. For the money I spent, there should have been a lot more content. I thought that with an entire game devoted to the band, that there'd be more songs that I loved growing up, but unfortunately that was not the case. Quite frankly, I'm ticked and would like my money back. Why weren't their other hits included, like Janie's Got a Gun, Angel, Crying, Dude Looks Like a Lady, etc? Very poorly put together if you ask me. It looks like Activision is just wanting to take advantage of GH fans by charging them a lot and delivering very little. I love GH, and I love Aerosmith, but I say this from the bottom of my heart: don't buy it.

Boring and Really Easy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I beat this game in about 3 hours, never failed a song, 5 starred 95% of the songs on my first try. Pathetically easy. Not enough songs. Activision is just trying to make some easy money. Do not buy it...just rent it.

Nothing but an expansion pack

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game a couple of days ago and the title says it all; Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is nothing but an expansion pack. I believe it would have made more sense (to the consumer anyway) to have all the songs as DLC for Guitar Hero III rather than charging full price for virtually a half of a game. It is clear that Neversoft wants to milk as much money out of its customers as it can with the least amount of effort and GH:Aerosmith proves this fact.

As you already know this latest edition of Guitar Hero features Aerosmith songs. However contrary to what I originally thought; all the songs are NOT Aerosmith. Out of the 31 songs in the game only 20 or so of them are Aerosmith tracks. In career mode you have to play two Non-Aerosmith songs to be able to play Aerosmith. This goes on for every venue and it gets rather repetitive and boring. Though it's JUST like GHIII it's just not as fun. There is nothing different between this and GHIII except for a couple of new animations and the venues. All the characters are the same, expect you can unlock the right to play with Aerosmith members or DMC from RUN-DMC. But honestly after playing through this game one time and beating it, I haven't picked it up again and have no desire to keep playing just to get the new characters.

The difficulty is no where as near as hard as GHIII and I was able to beat all but one song on Expect on my first try. Instead of wasting my rental time trying to beat that one last song, I went back and beat it on hard just so I can get finished with it and in one day I beat it. There is one boss battle in this game, but its no where near as ridiculous and cheap as Lou is on GHIII.

While I have also beaten GHIII and Rock Band, I still go back and play them regularly, however after beating GH:Aerosmith I have no desire to play it anymore.

I must reiterate that this game is nothing but an expansion pack and Neversoft has a lot of nerve charging full price for it. It only has a little over half the songs as GHIII so I am thinking it should be just a little over HALF the price, but no its the same price as GHIII. Unless you are a HUGE, die hard guitar Hero fan that absolutely must have every single Guitar hero game that ever came out, including Rock the 80's which was also full price from what I can remember, then this game is only rental worthy. Do not waste your money on this half of a game. Rent it, beat it, and save 50 or so bucks to use towards a full game.

Not too much different then GH3

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: June 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Its not too much of a big jump, although its more entertaining because it actually has sort of a "storyline" to it, the menus have changed, and they have different achievements then GH3 like for example if u get a 100 note streak on the second song of career you get a gamerscore achievement called cheescake, and trust me, thats not the end of the weird names of the achievments

P.S. I was the first reviewer of this version of this game HA!! BEAT THAT!!

You better love Aerosmith or Guitar Hero to buy this one

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game is ok. But not worth 60 bucks unless you love Aerosmith or are a Guitar Hero Diehard. I beat it in like 3 hours (on hard im not an expert monster) and no future downloadable content for this game? Comeon!

There are some good Aerosmith songs:

Mama Kin
Back in the Saddle
Dream On
Love in a Elevator
Walk This Way (with Run DMC)
Pink (Vault song you can buy)

you can buy with money you earn in game songs from the vault but mostly crap songs....Who the hell wants to play Joe Perry solo songs?

WAY to many Obscure Aerosmith Songs which takes up the majority of the Aerosmith Setlists in the beginning..

Some of the opening band tracks you can already find on Rockband

Hard to Handle
Stone Temple Pilots I believe Sex Type Thing
Thats how memorable I cant even remember the name of the song..

Train Kept a rollin is on both Guitar Hero 3 and Rockband already. Can someone say "tired of playing this song" It was the grand finale on Hard...

You do have a guitar battle with Joe Perry and you unlock him afterwards which you can buy with money you earned in game or other members of Aerosmith...

Anyways I dont have a desire to go back and play the songs like I do with Guitar Hero 2 and 3 or even Rockband.

You really gotta love Aerosmith to buy this one. Its a rent to be honest unless your diehard Guitar Hero Fans..

There are some cool guitars and basses you can buy but not sure if you can use when you play the aerosmith songs.

Whenever you play an Aerosmith song its Aerosmith on stage.

All the opening band tracks are played by the usual Guitar Hero Characters..

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