Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

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  • Summary: Fire up the fretboard, crank up the amp and get ready to rock like never before. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock drops you into the spotlight of the largest and most legendary rock concert ever. The star-studded soundtrack includes master tracks by such legendary artists as Guns N’ Roses,Fire up the fretboard, crank up the amp and get ready to rock like never before. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock drops you into the spotlight of the largest and most legendary rock concert ever. The star-studded soundtrack includes master tracks by such legendary artists as Guns N’ Roses, The Rolling Stones, Beastie Boys, Muse and Pearl Jam, with added songs as made legendary by Kiss, Alice Cooper and Heart. Now drop that air guitar, tune your exclusive new Les Paul Guitar Controller and shred the night away with Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. [Activision]… Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 24
  3. Negative: 0 out of 24
  1. GameZone
    93
    The best song selection yet combined with unparalleled playability and a challenge for anyone from beginner to master makes this PS2’s definitive music game. A must-have for anyone who plays video games to have fun.
  2. Eurogamer
    90
    Despite sharing the exact same innards as Guitar Hero II, Legends of Rock is, in every conceivable way, a better product than its predecessors. It's better presented, better put together, more professional, more complete.
  3. PGNx Media
    89
    Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is undoubtedly the best game in the series. The amazing soundtrack, superb wireless guitar, subtle tweaks, and excellent online multiplayer are exactly what fans have been wanting from the series.
  4. Gamestyle
    80
    Despite bringing Gamestyle many hours of joyous giddy pleasure and drooling, Guitar Hero III is a teensy bit of a letdown.
  5. IGN
    80
    The soundtrack is fantastic, and it really is hard to argue with any facet of the gameplay. Everything outside of the game itself, though, is in need of an overhaul as the presentation is growing a bit stale.
  6. Gamer 2.0
    76
    There are two good reasons why you might need to ignore our “rent it” recommendation and go buy Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock right now. One, you’re absolutely sure you’ll have a blast playing with and against people online and moving up the leaderboards for a very, very long time to come (again, this isn’t an option on the PS2 version). Two, you can’t wait another minute to have your fingers tied in knots by the three-note chord and wiggly solo onslaughts this maniacally challenging game throws your way.
  7. PTGamers
    75
    Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is faithful in almost every aspect to the formula of success that Harmonix came up with, and the additions are few and meaningless.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 23
  3. Negative: 1 out of 23
  1. Bobbobbo
    Jan 20, 2008
    10
    The best game I have ever played.
  2. NickT.
    Oct 30, 2007
    10
    This Game is insane!! it has all new battle mode (extremely fun), brand new tracks (finally more modern), and is is just all around great!! i This Game is insane!! it has all new battle mode (extremely fun), brand new tracks (finally more modern), and is is just all around great!! i have no dissapointment whatsoever with this game.… Expand
  4. fuyuyuki
    Sep 7, 2020
    9
    while the animations in this game look very dated and choppy, this game is filled with much style, flair and charm
  5. SrPepe
    Oct 29, 2017
    8
    Creo que me llegue a comprar como nueve juegos de Guitar Hero III, algunos con mods, otros porque se me rompía el anterior, y la verdad esCreo que me llegue a comprar como nueve juegos de Guitar Hero III, algunos con mods, otros porque se me rompía el anterior, y la verdad es esta: compraría nueve más.… Expand
  6. Linux_32
    Nov 17, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. In moral terms, I don't understand why they go so hard with any guitar hero that Harmonix hasn't developed. Ok, Neversoft made some mistakes, but it got it right in many ways too.
    The guitar hero setlist is very ironic, the songs revolve around the 70s and 90s, always weighing in rock classics, this for me has a good side and a bad side, with the selected songs it’s easier to please, however shows that Neversoft risked the least to make the game.
    The difficulty is really ridiculous, poorly balanced, medium is hard and hard is impossible.
    The gameplay has improved a lot compared to GH2, and the game is more pleasing to the eye, without that horrible lighting and robotic movements from GH2.
    The choice of songs by stage is also smart, and there are a lot of songs, a total of 73, the battles against the bosses were an unfortunate choice, but it was smart to add real characters to the game.
    In short, a good game could have been better, but you can have a lot of fun, I rate it 8.    … Expand
  7. neojotic
    Aug 29, 2020
    7
    Decent tracklist but fails to capture the charm of the first two guitar hero games.

    Imo this game is what killed the guitar hero craze. It    Decent tracklist but fails to capture the charm of the first two guitar hero games.

    Imo this game is what killed the guitar hero craze. It felt more like a send off to guitar hero than another installment.    … Expand
  8. Luigithemetal64
    Sep 26, 2013
    4
    Later Guitar Hero games on the PS2 sucks hard. The animation is choppy, characters look like stop-motion as well their hair being stiff as aLater Guitar Hero games on the PS2 sucks hard. The animation is choppy, characters look like stop-motion as well their hair being stiff as a broom, and the loading is longer than any other version. The Xbox 360 and PS3 version were better.… Expand

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Awards & Rankings

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#9 Best PS2 Game of 2007
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#8 Most Discussed PS2 Game of 2007
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#58 Most Shared PS2 Game of 2007