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For Aerosmith Fans only

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was not too happy with the song lists for this guitar hero. Unfortunally I should have looked online before I bought it to see what the songs lists were. I wanted more songs and didnt realize (dummy me) that it would MOSTLY be aerosmith songs. Since Im not such a big fan of Aerosmith I knew approximatly 5 songs off the whole game. Its like all the guitar heroes, just mostly dedicated to the band and their not so famous songs. I really feel you need to be a HUGE Aerosmith fan to really enjoy this game.

Disappointing!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I just joined the Guitar Hero cult with Guitar Hero III for Wii. I adored the game and was counting the days until the release of Guitar Hero Aerosmith. Now I wish I had saved myself the $50!

1) There is no co-op career. My fiance and I loved to play together in career mode and this was a big let down for us.

2) MUCH easier (and therefore kinda boring) than GH3. I easily beat the game on Hard without once having to start a song over, and getting at least 4 stars on each one.

3) The song selection is terrible. There are only 3 or 4 really great, well known Aerosmith songs. The rest are either stuff from the present that nobody knows or stuff from the 70's that I haven't previously heard. Some of the songs I'm not familiar with are OK, but I would've much preferred to see songs that I know and love. As for the non-Aerosmith songs, most are extremely boring and simple with a few that are ok (Joan Jett and Lenny Kravitz stand out in my memory).

4) Looking at the animated Steven Tyler gets really freaky after a while.

I'm already back to playing my GH3...and putting this up on Craigslist!

It's OK, but just stick with GHIII

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

First off, I'm a HUGE guitar hero fan. I've played GH3 many times over, and I've never gotten tired of re-playing most of the songs on that game. With the release of GH-Aerosmith, I was extremely excited to have ~40 new songs to play (although I'm only a moderate Aerosmith fan). After playing through the game, I am extremely disappointed GH-Aerosmith and cannot recommend it to non-Aerosmith fanatics.

Pros
- Great graphics, definite upgrade over GH3
- Good storyline, the live interviews were interesting, and it was cool to re-play some of Aerosmith's critical gigs
- The recognizable Aerosmith songs are quite fun to play (especially "Walk This Way", "Love in an Elevator", "Living on the Edge", and several others)

Cons (lots of them)
- Only 41 songs (in comparison to GH3's ~75 songs) - how can they justify the nearly equivalent prices of the two games?
- The obscure Aerosmith songs and the non-Aerosmith songs have almost zero re-playability. In my opinion, the guitar parts on these songs were repetitive and boring.
- Omission of key Aerosmith songs such as "Dude (Looks like a Lady)" in favor of some lesser, more obscure Aerosmith songs
- As indicated by other reviewers, the game is pretty easy, but worse, the guitar parts just aren't very interesting or fun to play.
- Star power is a disaster. In star power mode, the virtual audience claps (very loudly) to some random beat that does NOT correspond to the rhythm of the song. Never in the history of music has an audience (real or otherwise) had less rhythm! It is incredibly distracting to have contrasting beats on the same song... GH3 did NOT have this same problem.
- The volume of the guitar track was inconsistent between songs. I had to adjust the guitar volume (Options menu) for each individual song to have optimal guitar audio. Again, GH3 did not have this problem.
- The timing of the notes in Expert mode seemed to be quite off (especially on "Cat Scratch Fever" and other songs). I had to introduce an audio lag (Options menu) to try and make the video notes and audio correlate. This was not a function of my TV, and GH3 did NOT have similar problems on my system.

In my opinion, the game-play of GH-Aerosmith is "sloppy" compared to GH3. Perhaps these problems are the result of rushing this product to market in advance of the upcoming GH-World Tour... Anyways, if you're a die-hard Aerosmith fan and you aren't too concerned about game-play, then you'll enjoy this game. Otherwise, get GH3 (if you're a newbie) or wait for GH-World Tour...

The worst Guitar Hero!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a misleading game to say the least. There's nothing fun about this Aerosmith series, and actually, they should not even use the Aerosmith name for this game.

First of all, there are not a lot of Aeromsmith songs. For each level, you have two songs from some other bands and then you get two songs from Aerosmith. What the heck is that all about???? I bought this game to play Aerosmith songs, not some other bands that I do not care for!!!!!

Second, they only have very few Aerosmith songs that people recognize. For goodness sake, why put Aerosmith songs that no one knows about. Most of the big hits from Aerosmith were not included. Why the hell would you create this game if you don't include hits from Aerosmith.

This is just a huge, huge, huge waste of money!!! This game is NOT created for people who enjoy music from Aerosmith. This game is created so that the idiots at Activision could steal money from people!!! What a disappointing game.

What is up with the sound quality?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

So I am curious what has happened with the sound here? On some songs I cannot even hear the singing and cannot hear the guitar, I have to change the volume settings, but it still doesn't even really help at all. I am so dissapointed in this purchase, I absolutely love Aerosmith, but am so not happy with this purchase. I have finished GH3 on easy and it took me a bit and I totally zipped through the easy level on Aerosmith GH on the first try, it was crazy!! I hope that whatever they come out with next, that it is way better then this. I am surprised that Aerosmith allowed this to be released.

Somewhat Disappointed

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My son (age 6) and I were really looking forward to this when it first came out. I had ordered it through Amazon on the 25th of June and it arrived on the 30th (1 day after the premier).
My pros are as follows:
- New Songs
My cons are as follows:
- Not enough songs from other bands
- Bonus set list is way too small (probably half the size of the bonus set list in GH3)
- Have to play on expert mode to make it somewhat challenging
- Not many selections for guitars and no new characters
- Co-op mode is boring
- You can't hear Steven Tyler sing on some of the songs
- The guitar seems to be out of sync with the song or vice versa.

Overall, I give this a "C". My favorite song out of the whole game is Dream Police - and that's the first song! Also, why would you have a cover of Hard to Handle?
I should have just saved my money and waited for GH4.

Not up to par

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

When I heard that Aerosmith was going to be involved with the next Guitar Hero game, I was pretty excited. I have several Aerosmith CDs from the Geffen days (Pump, Permanent Vacation, Get a Grip), and their greatest hits album. I considered myself a fan. Too bad few of my favorite songs made it into the game. Instead we are treated to Cheap Tricks, Dream Police..........ugh. King of Rock by Run DMC is an OK song, it just doesn't translate over to Guitar Hero very well. Even the good songs aren't that fun to play. The keystrokes aren't layed out very well. Where in past games, you kind of got the feeling that you were playing the song, ie Mississippi Queen, and Pride and Joy, in this one you just feel like you are hitting buttons. There isn't a nice flow. If you play GH you know what I am talking about. This game isn't all bad. Wii owners will be pleasantly surprised to see that the graphics have been upgraded, and this one is in stereo. I never really noticed on GH3 but evidently not being in stereo got alot of people bent. I would love to give this game my whole hearted recommendation but alas I can only say that it wasn't a total waste of money. I think I will put GH3 back in and wait till Christmas when my son opens his Rock Band. Can't wait!

I love Aerosmith!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I wish the game had more of Aerosmith's top hits! All and all the game was very entertaining and fun to play. I wish you can play more than two people. I will need to purchase an additional guitar to play battle mode and test my skills. I absolutley love the game.

Unless you LOVE Aerosmith, don't buy this

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Here's the problem with Guitar Hero Aerosmith: It's got mostly Aerosmith songs! I like Aerosmith, but I don't want to take the time to learn how to play obscure stuff when Guitar Hero 3 has such a fantastic selection of songs. Also, many of the songs on this game are way too easy. The non-Aerosmith songs are fairly uninteresting too. Invest your money in Guitar Hero 3 if you haven't already bought a Guitar Hero game.

great game but there are some song missing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

this is a awesome game but its missing a couple of songs like dude looks like a lady, janies got a gun and others i was hopeing that these songs would be there but its just a minor mistake but other wise a great game and I would recommend it to anyone.

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