I'm aware most of you can't get your hands on it yet, but it was released here on Sunday, so I figured I'd throw in my two cents now. (Also, it makes thatbloke angry that I got it first 
) My opinions here are based on the PS2 version, as that's what I bought (mostly because I already have two guitars for the ps2.) I'm sure the 360 & PS3 versions look much better, but I don't have them so I don't care.
So first of all, as I implied above, it's ugly. Like, really ugly. I'm sure this is because it wasn't developed for the PS2 first, like the other versions were, but it doesn't really matter. GH2 looked quite good on the dated PS2 hardware, GH3 looks more like a PSOne game. Normally the graphics aren't something that sway my opinion of a game heavily, but in this case because they're so bad when in the past they were quite good it really gets to me.
Carrying on with graphical changes, most of the characters have changed for the worst. Not only have they killed off some of the best ones (Clive, Eddie, Pandora) but they made the remaining characters ugly as sin, super creepy, incredibly slutty, or all of the above. The animations are pretty good, but they seem to have less than in the other games. The other band members now lip sync/play the right notes on the bass/hit the right drums, but sadly it looks absolutely ridiculous (especially the drummer.)
So, gameplay. It's guitar hero. Nothing new here. The songs are noticeably harder, sometimes to a pretty ridiculous extreme. Still, needless to say, if you're like most and just want more songs to play, this is what you need.
The new guitar battle mode is pretty meh, mostly about who nails a star power sequence first, making it more or less the same as the old battle mode.
Overall it's not terrible, somewhere around a 7/10. Bottom line is it'll do for now, but I'll need some serious convincing before I buy GH4.
Oh! EDIT:
Worth it for Paint it, Black and Welcome to the Jungle
) My opinions here are based on the PS2 version, as that's what I bought (mostly because I already have two guitars for the ps2.) I'm sure the 360 & PS3 versions look much better, but I don't have them so I don't care.So first of all, as I implied above, it's ugly. Like, really ugly. I'm sure this is because it wasn't developed for the PS2 first, like the other versions were, but it doesn't really matter. GH2 looked quite good on the dated PS2 hardware, GH3 looks more like a PSOne game. Normally the graphics aren't something that sway my opinion of a game heavily, but in this case because they're so bad when in the past they were quite good it really gets to me.
Carrying on with graphical changes, most of the characters have changed for the worst. Not only have they killed off some of the best ones (Clive, Eddie, Pandora) but they made the remaining characters ugly as sin, super creepy, incredibly slutty, or all of the above. The animations are pretty good, but they seem to have less than in the other games. The other band members now lip sync/play the right notes on the bass/hit the right drums, but sadly it looks absolutely ridiculous (especially the drummer.)
So, gameplay. It's guitar hero. Nothing new here. The songs are noticeably harder, sometimes to a pretty ridiculous extreme. Still, needless to say, if you're like most and just want more songs to play, this is what you need.
The new guitar battle mode is pretty meh, mostly about who nails a star power sequence first, making it more or less the same as the old battle mode.
Overall it's not terrible, somewhere around a 7/10. Bottom line is it'll do for now, but I'll need some serious convincing before I buy GH4.
Oh! EDIT:
Worth it for Paint it, Black and Welcome to the Jungle
