
Running a web bot/spider that downloaded a very large number of pages - more than could possibly justified as "personal use". Automated spam (advertising) or intrustion attempts (hacking). The big news here is that you can now go head to head against others online - no more waiting for your friends to come over so you can school them in person.Your current IP address has been blocked due to bad behavior, which generally means one of the following: If you want to play “Guitar Hero III” with a pal, you can choose either Co-op Career mode (where you play through the game together as a guitarist and a bassist, but minus the boss battles) or against each other in multiplayer. Do not underestimate how cool it is to play as Slash! Winning the boss battles makes Tom and Slash available for purchase and use as your in-game character. But be warned, they can throw power ups at you too. These guitar duels feature “Mario Kart”-ish power ups (like Double Notes which turns all single notes two button chords) that can be thrown with a flip of the guitar, causing Tom and Slash miss a beat or two. Certain notes have lines streaking from them, letting you know you can use the whammy bar to make them sound all “wavy.” Performing well builds your rock meter (a point-doubling power up that is engaged by tilting your guitar skyward) but missing notes will cause your guitar to go silent.Īlso, Career mode will have you facing off in boss battles against guitar greats Tom Morello (of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave fame) and Slash (of Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver) on songs written exclusively for the game. You’ll fret chords (by pressing buttons) and strum your guitar (by flicking a lever) in time with the music and according to the notes that scroll across the screen.
Plus, this game isn’t so much played as it is performed. The whole point of “Guitar Hero” is to feel like you’re rocking out, and you only get that feeling by holding an axe. You can also use a regular game controller, but the game will lose all of its charm if you do.
But if you already have the “Guitar Hero II” bundle for the PS2 or 360, you can use the guitar from that and just purchase the new game (for $49.99 and $59.99 respectively). Since the franchise is new to the PS3 and Wii, you’ll have to buy the whole shebang. The Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 2 versions of the game bundled with the guitar controller will set you back $89.99, and the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 bundles cost $99.99.
Using a wireless guitar-shaped controller, you’ll strive to hit all the right notes on over 70 rock songs - and in doing so, make it to the top of the music biz.īut the road to rock stardom doesn’t come cheap.