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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.

"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.

Good Enough For Now

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: July 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

OK, so there are a few Aerosmith gems that are missing in the set list and the game generally is a repackaged GH3, but there are enough hits (and some cool b-sides that I didn't know before) that the game is fun. The songs don't seem to be as hard at the various difficulty levels, but the riffs are quite a bit different from anything on GH3. There are lot more hammer-ons and the bass/rhythm lines are a bit more fun than GH3. Since the game interface is essentially the same for both games, one thing that would be nice is if there was a way to easily switch between GH3 and GHA without having to change discs.

I can foresee GH releasing versions for other bands, but I'm not sure I'll spring for them; I'm going to wait for Nintendo to figure out how to do downloadable content.

Overall, for Wii'ers, this is a good GH 'fix'. Non-die hard Aerosmith fans with other platforms may want to rent and bask in the glory of picking which songs they want to pay extra for....and not have to switch discs.

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.

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.

Guitar Hero III With Different Songs

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: July 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you like Guitar Hero III and you like Aerosmith, you'll like Guitar Hero Aerosmith. The set list is O.K and includes 41 songs, but it would have been nice to see a few more. The onstage graphics are fun, and after playing through all the tracks I have a better feel for what Aerosmith sounds like. By the end of the set list I felt like I was part of the band. Overall, if you like Guitar Hero III and are looking for some more tracks to play, I'd say it is worthwhile. Now all I need is Guitar Hero Guns N' Roses. Rock On.

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.

People get it right

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Why is everyone complaining about these songs being unheard of? What do you people want, to play Guitar Hero to lame 90's songs like Cryin and I don't want to Miss a thing? Give me a break. I read some reviews saying these were not famous Aerosmith songs. All of Aerosmith's body of 1970s work is not only their BEST but also their most FAMOUS. the reason everyone makes fun of aerosmith now is because of songs like pink, cryin, crazy, amazing, all that pop bubble gum stuff. all these songs from the 70s are ideal for a game based on a GUITAR. how do you think aerosmith rose to stardom? hello, BY PLAYING THE SONGS ON THE GHAEROSMITH SET LIST. THESE SONGS ARE AEROSMITH'S BEST SONGS, BY FAR.

Great first time guitar hero game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is my first guitar hero game, and I really like it a lot! It's fun trying to beat the songs on Easy, then Medium, then Hard, etc. It seems like what a lot of other reviewers have a problem with is it's similarities to other GH games - but I think on it's own it's pretty darn fun.

It's true that not all of the songs are that great - I'm not an Aerosmith fan, and some of the B-sides just don't sound good - but almost without exception they are fun to play, and I find that by playing them I actually start to like them more.

That said, I probably would have preferred a non-Aerosmith branded game, with a larger range of bands. Aerosmith is a fine band, but I think I would have preferred greater variety.

I find the boss battles to be really difficult - I'm unable to beat the Joe Perry boss battle on medium, even though I can get through all of the songs prior pretty easily. The problem is that you can't practice the battle, so you have to keep trying which is kind of lame.

Some niggles: I found "The Vault" interface (where you buy songs, videos, character models, outfits, etc) to be a little confusing, and most of the character models to be either inappropriate (especially slutty girl models) or just gross (most of the guy models).

I found the guitar controller itself to be nicely made and quite responsive.

So, overall I think this game is a lot of fun and this first time Guitar Hero owner is having a lot of fun working through the Career mode on medium!

Same game, different songs

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: June 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you have played any of the Guitar Hero games... this one is no different. Each section of this one has 3 Aerosmith songs and a couple songs from other groups, and all the bonus songs are Aerosmith songs, so if you are not an Aerosmith fan, this may not be your favorite game, but it will still be fun!

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