Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Comments by Tom Bramwell

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Hahahaha fantastic image.

On the front page, not the one in the article.

P A R T Y .......................................................

He has a face like a cornish pasty...

Wii version looks a bit better this time round but it's the animation which needs improving it was horrible before especially the drummer.

Front page image also reminded me of this

Hiro Protagonist? Has someone been reading Snow Crash?

Also J Allard's gamertag, after the Snow Crash character.

The franchise is beginning to spew forth sour milk....this can only spell the end.

Typo on the very last line Brambles!

Two questions that I didn't really see answered in the review:

1) Have they sorted out the absured difficulty spike between medium and hard (or, if you're a more experienced GH gamer, the last three songs on Hard)?

2) Are the note charts any better than the GH3 attempts? That's key for me as GH3 just didn't feel right somehow, especially when you're playing notes that either don't exist or aren't played on the lead guitar just for the sake of making a track harder.

Not even worth it as a fan.

No Crazy, no Don't Want To Miss A Thing, song selection is pants to be honest.

I'll stick with GH3 and spend my money on Smash Bros instead. Or wait for GH4. Which looks AWESOMENESS

Def one for the older Aerosmith fans. I have the last few albums, and there are very few tracks from these songs. Really dissapointing that a band i love can have a release on guitar hero game and for there to be so few songs. Would have been great if they had let aerosmith fans vote on a website for the songs they wanted, and even better if the whole aoerosmith disc was just, you know, aerosmith songs.

My thoughts exactly Seasidebaz.

I would actually be in the market for a new set of GH songs, but I'm just not a big enough Aerosmith fan, and £40 is far too much for a song pack - why this isn't priced in line with the £19.99 Singstar song packs, I don't know. Maybe Aerosmith charged too much to license their songs?

Anyway, if they're going to do another artist-focussed Guitar Hero edition, please can we have Hendrix next? Otherwise I'm waiting for GH4.

It only has 60% of the number of songs that GH3 has and yet they're selling it at full price, which is pretty ridiculous. I knew this was going to be fail from the moment it was announced.

And why does everyone hate the boss battles? They're not exactly hard.

Sounds like a total rip off.

Con... I'll wait until it's 2nd hand for 20 quid... which could be quite a while but I'll cope.

I would buy a Def Leppard themed Rock Band game... now THEY have a story to tell. And the difficulty spike after the Hysteria album if you're playing the drums!

"No Crazy, no Don't Want To Miss A Thing, song selection is pants to be honest. "

Do those songs even have guitars in them? They would be terrible to play. Especially the Armageddon one.

Under a pound a song seems fine for me, it's just a pity that I'm not that much of an Aerosmith fan. If the Metallica one is anything like this that's getting the hell bought out of it though.

I think for an Aerosmith fan you could probably bung a point on the score, maybe two points if the track list wasn't missing some specific tunes (I'm not particularly a fan, but even to my eyes there are some obvious absences).

The price point does seem a bit off. I guess any game can be priced in isolation and for the amount of dosh and the hours of gameplay this doesn't seem too bad. More realistically though, a game will be compared to its peers and if SingStar (admittedly different gameplay, but not super different) can release solus editions for under £20, Activision might want to consider why they have to charge so much for their products.

Le sigh.

I've played though this (only took a few hours) and to be honest 6/10 seems very inflated. It's definitely not worth the money, especially as it's missing most of Aerosmith's best songs. Cynical side of me reckons those will be released as DLC.

"or a lot more material than this to justify their existence and, more pertinently, an asking price of 40 quid without the guitar peripheral"

Eh? Surely you don't mean 40 quid Tom? I'd happily pick this up for £20, but for £40 I'm not enough of a fan.

Now, Guitar Hero: Led Zep (with more songs) I'd happily cough up full price for.

I don't wanna miss a thing (but I think I'll give this one a miss.)

The best thing Aerosmith ever released was Liv Tyler

1) Have they sorted out the absured difficulty spike between medium and hard (or, if you're a more experienced GH gamer, the last three songs on Hard)?

Yes ... it's a fix called "Rock Band".

Wow, so everyone in the new rock-simulation sub-genre is trying to rip us off.

Whodathunkit?

"Two questions that I didn't really see answered in the review:

1) Have they sorted out the absured difficulty spike between medium and hard (or, if you're a more experienced GH gamer, the last three songs on Hard)?

2) Are the note charts any better than the GH3 attempts? That's key for me as GH3 just didn't feel right somehow, especially when you're playing notes that either don't exist or aren't played on the lead guitar just for the sake of making a track harder. "

1) Did not try Medium but Hard is a lot easier than in GH3. 5* on all but 3 songs on my first try and (in line of your comparison with GH3) i have one 5* and rest 3* on the last tier in GH3. on Hard that is.
2) They felt way better. A bit tighter and with the ho/po you cant "cheat" anymore by holding down before the note.

* bag-in-a-box: Thanks for that, not so much for this game as I'd rather stick the money onto Rock Band DLC, but at least it seems they may, just MAY, be heading in the right direction for World Tour...

How are the note charts, Tom? They were the biggest thing wrong with GH3 compared to Harmonix's efforts.

thanks for that.
i'd forgotten how ugly steven tyler was!

face perfect for radio, must be why he isnt an actor

Ive been waiting to read a review......

song list isnt brill, soooo many songs i'd have loved to click along to, but i compiled a playlist of the aerosmith songs in the game, and must say not too shabby a setlist....

if you are on the fence as to yay or nay, make a playlist have a listen in order and you may be swayed i know i just hopped n skipped my way to make a cup of coffee and the studios stereo is slightly too loud for love in an elevator!

in fact i thinks im gonna enjoy this weekend......

should settle the wanting pangs for UT3 atleast!

As a, former (haven't listened to them in ages since all my LP's now are in the basement), huge fan of the 70's and early 80's Aerosmith I will have to get this eventually. Permanent Vacation and Pump might be well made record but not my cup of tea. Their later albums are so cheezy I now feel abit ashamed that I always have to say the classic - "Yeah, I like their OLD stuff"

Good/sad thing is it probably won't take long for hit the bargain bin.

I could have bet that "No Surprize" would have been in the playlist, too bad :-(

Absolute rip-off for £40. Doubt there are that many Aerosmith / GH players who would pick this up instead of Rock Band or DLC.

Do you really get extra point by using the whammy?

Pah, I refuse to play any more Guitar Hero games until I can beat Lou on hard.

"...and hammer the whammy bar for extra points during long notes."

That never worked, not in Guitar Hero, not in Guitar Hero 2, not in Guitar Hero 3 (not even in Rock Band)... you will not get any extra points for the wammy bar use ... the only function it has is to suck out the starpower from the "glowing, long star power notes"...

Who ever wrote that article apperently never played a Guitar Hero Game or just dosn't give a shit...

Got the game today... not 100% happy with the song list as well... Miss songs like Crazy and... why the F**K is "Amazing" not in it? That song has a nearly 3 Minutes Solo and has been made for Guitar Hero .... Let me guess, DLC...

No Crazy, no Don't Want To Miss A Thing

Good.

Is the picture on the front page of a man or a woman?

Honestly, I don't give a shit about Aerosmith, but I've got all the GH3 DLC I wanted, and I'm still a committed member of the "Fuck Rock Band and its Stupid Price" camp, so I picked this up.
As far as difficulty goes, I was absolutely horrified by the ease at which I got through a few of the opening tracks on Hard (got my first Hard-mode gold on my first play through the game's third track, which I'd never even heard previously), but the difficulty soon picks up again to a challenging level, though thankfully never to the level of Raining Blood, or that soul-gnawingly difficult Muse track.

£40 is, as has been mentioned, a rip off, especially for the limited number of tracks that come with the game, but seeing as I'M NOT EVER BUYING ROCK BAND, YOU THIEVING SHITS, it's pretty much the only game in town at this point.

been playing this for a while today (on medium) the note charts are awful, really doesnt feel like you are playing along, just pressing random buttons at random times, back to rock band for me ...

frosty you can get rock band solus for around the same price as this and its a much better game (might be a bit easy for you if you can gh3 on hard though)

the front page picture looks like a scrote pressed against a patio door.