Yes, I know I'm late to the Guitar Hero party, but when I saw a one day deal on the Guitar Hero III Wireless Bundle for $40 last week, I didn't hesitate to snap it up. (Of course, the shipping and duty was double that, but hey, that's life when you live in Bermuda.)
Yesterday I finally freed the game from the customs purgatory to which an absent invoice had consigned it, and was able to give it a go. I don't know most of the songs so far, but that hasn't damped my enjoyment of it. It's clear that developing the muscle memory required to play well could take a little time though.
I started playing through on easy difficulty and things weren't too bad. I didn't fail any song, and managed a four or five star rating on all in the first set list. My only problem was when activating star power - doing it by tilting the guitar up inevitably caused me to miss the next few notes, and I found the button on the guitar body that does the same thing to be inconveniently placed.
Feeling encouraged, I then tried a song on medium difficulty. Jesus Christ.
I had three attempts at Pat Benetar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" and failed twice. The third time I only just scraped through, my rock meter staying in the red the whole way through. It wasn't the extra fret that killed me so much as the increased speed that the notes came flying towards me.
It was a surprisingly steep increase in difficulty from easy. Can't imagine how I'll ever complete a song on hard, let alone expert difficulty.
