Guitar Hero. Seriously, who hasn’t played it yet? If you missed the first one, you were bound to have touched the second one, unless you have made a cave far out north your permanent residence. Great songlist, great way of making young and old ones rock out with your rooster out, great controls thanks to the X-Plorer bundled with the 360 version, and the other wired controller with the PS2 one (don’t really recall the names of these guitars, unfortunately). This is a license that has cash cow written all over it.

Inevitably, part 3 makes its way to stores. The series is in the hands of Neversoft, famous for churning out Tony Hawk Skateboard sequels. This was all due to a nasty feud between them, Harmonix, EA, and Red Octane which I will not go into great detail, simply because this is a game review, not MTV’s Behind The Scenes. Besides, my puny brain cannot remember industry details unless I have Gamasutra.com and Gamebiz next to me. So how does Neversoft handle Harmonix’s baby this time around?
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Rock Band is on its way, Guitar Hero 2 has landed on the XBOX 360, now all we need now is an announcement that the third one will land on all the consoles. Wait…what do we have here? Well it looks like we’re going to get our wish, because according to the Red Octane website, we indeed have the third coming… of Guitar Hero. Slated for this fall apparently. I wonder if Rock band controllers will be compatible. With this and DDR coming to the Wii as well, you’ll be able to dance into the night, oooowwoooo~

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