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"Dude Looks Like a" . . . DUD !

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 17
Date: July 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was really looking forward to this. I am a moderate Aerosmith fan with at least 12-15 favorite songs that would really rock in this game. Unfortunately, only 3 made it. The songs that were chosen would be great if the GH player were as old as Aerosmith (that's right) well over 50-years-old. And guess what, my Dad doesn't want to play! So why weren't more songs from the last 15 years chosen? Yikes, I say!

I also started on HARD and got all the way through without any failures. And I'll be honest, I'm not the greatest player. GH3 on hard still gives me fits toward the end.

I'll say the replay value on this game is just about nil. I'll probably return to play a few (5-6) of the songs, but I'm about to give Rock Band for the Wii a try if this is all Activision is going to put out.

This one is a dud. I'd pass if I were you.

Very disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: July 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was excited to see that a GH3 Aerosmith was being released and picked mine up early. However, it didn't take long before extreme disappointment set in. The first complaint is that they did away with the Co-op Career mode. As my wife and I like to play a full career together, this was very disappointing. You can still play a co-op multiplayer but you need a career started to get the songs opened.
Next, instead of having to complete 3 of 4 songs (for easy and medium) and hopefully being excited about at least 2 of them, the Aerosmith one starts you off with playing two headliner bands, going into an encore with Aerosmith. Then, you play another Aerosmith song to get to another encore. So, essentially, you have absolutely no choice in the songs you play.
I agree with a few other posts about being disappointed in the Aerosmith song selection. I was hoping for more noticeable songs rather than trying to find the beat to a song I have never heard before.
Also, when you start with Easy or Medium levels, the first 6 to 8 songs are incredibly easy before they begin to get a bit more exciting. Be prepared for this.
Rent this one, get through it, and return it.

Guitar Hero drops the ball

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: July 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Boring, Boring, Boring. No wonder Aerosmith is not considerd one of the great guitar bands. Plugged it in and went through the entire set list on hard and only had to start over on one song. Extremely easy compared to GH3. GH3 had some great songs both modern and classic. The Aerosmith songs are awful except for a couple and the other songs stink out loud. I am not a huge Aerosmith fan but still figured it would be fun. IT'S NOT!!! I expected more from Guitar Hero. Very dissapointing. Rent it and return it the next day after you have beaten the entire game on expert. I wish I had.

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!

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.

do not waste your money... not fun at all... there is one, two at best songs worthwhile.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

do not waste your money... not fun at all... there is one, two at best songs worthwhile.

Expected more!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I expected more of the aerosmith famous hits in the game! Didn't like the opening cover songs and there is no co-op career option like the regular guitar hero game. It is not a bad game, just expected more out of it!

The Same Old Song & Dance

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 22 / 23
Date: June 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

So I'm not the biggest Aerosmith fan in the world, and I'll go ahead and admit that. But I do like Guitar Hero, and I own an Aerosmith album or two, so I thought "nice, new songs!" and picked this one up. Powering through it in an evening, I came to some key realizations that I thought I might pass on in hopes of saving my fellow mock-rockers some coin.

1) The song selection is horrible.
When I thought "GH: Aerosmith", I was imagining "Crazy", "Cryin", "Janie...", "Hole in my Soul", "Angel", "Jaded", or "Don't Want to Miss a Thing" might be on it. All absent, as if they only secured the rights to the songs that were of little further monitary use to the band.

2) This is a Guitar Hero 3 abbreviation.
Oh sure, it's got new songs, and many of them (~25 of ~40) are Aerosmith. To it's credit, it does include two songs per stage from bands who have opened for Aerosmith, to break up the monotony. But there's not a time I remember saying to myself "oh, snap - this song will rock - I can't push start fast enough!" as often occurred in the series' previous iterations. The unlocked characters are the same as GH3 (plus some Aerosmith members), the guitars and outfits are largely the same (although your character gets replaced with Aerosmith during their songs anyway), and the uninspiring unlockable songs number in the single digits.
When the loading screen quotes aren't fun factoids about Aerosmith's Life and Times, they are the SAME AS GH3. I mean, really, that's just lazy.

At least when Rock Band decided to skimp on its content for the Wii, they value-priced the expansion discs.

Rent this one, beat it (violently, if possible), and turn it back in the next day.

Dissapointed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The song selection here is pretty sad. Aerosmith has such a great body of work, and they just did not take advantage of it, so we end up with very few songs.

The store, called The Vault here is worthless beyond adding new songs. Any Aerosmith songs you play you can not customize your character at all - you play with the Aerosmith setup, so your customization does not count on the majority of songs.

They pretty much took away all choice as to what you will play. You can choose which opening act song you want first, but after that the game doles out songs one at a time that you have to finish before you get to the next song.

Overall, if I realized what I was in for I definitely would not have purchased this disk. This game will live on the shelf in favor of the much better done Legends of Rock.

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...

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