Guitar Hero 5 for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

PROS:

-Graphics are nice and flashy
-Variety of songs is huge
-Challenges add a new feel to the game

CONS:

-Some effects are rather distracting
-Songs could have been a little harder

FINAL THOUGHT:
Finally, Guitar Hero 5. I'm not pumped for GH anymore just for the sheer factor of me being a hardcore player and like to play very difficult to straight up hard songs. If that's what you are looking for, it's not here. Granted there are a few hard songs like Scatterbrain by Jeff Beck and Darkest Hour and Children of Bodom are also some of the other harder songs. Personally, I thought this game should have picked better songs, most of the songs are kinda cool, but are rather annoying when the notechart looks pretty similar to the last 6 songs you played. The graphics are very nicely done, but the way they changed the graphics for the notes and fretboard while playing songs, to me, took me about 15 songs to become used to the new, flashy interface. Star power, in my opinion, is rather distracting. When you launch star power, the fretboard turn blue and has a flashy blue line flash its way across the fretboard. You get used to it after a while, but it's still a distraction to me even after beating the game. GH5 does have some cool new additions, like the addition of challenges for specific instruments or full band for certain songs during the career such as; Guitar- whammy held notes for up to 80 seconds total, Bass- hit 360 up strums, etc. This game is definitely worth picking up if your are a GH fan or want to discover new music. Multiplayer is fun like in any GH game, but party mode is where its at. Up to 4 people can join at any time during a song and play whatever instrument, want 4 guitarists? You got it, want 3 drummers and 1 guitarist? You can do that too. I would say this game is worth picking up if you are a Guitar Hero fan, but for hardcore players like myself, I'd approach with caution as the harder songs aren't until the very, very end of the setlist.