Finally finished Guitar Hero 3 on Expert

GH3 was more difficult than GH2 to get through Expert. There are really only two substantial hurdles, but they are high... One is Raining Blood which has really only one complex section - Mosh 1 - which you have to be pretty decent to get through, the second is Lou who is a pain.. In co-op mode getting through on expert is way easier because neither of these hurdles exist in co-op - there are no battles in co-op, and for whatever reason Raining Blood isn't in the co-op set-list.

I'm not a fan of the battles (of which there are 3 introduced in GH3 - Tom, Slash, and Lou). How well you do seems to be much more random than the rest of the game. I think Neversoft could have done a better job making the battles require less luck, and more skill, but you get what you get.

Guitar Hero is going to have to innovate fast to fend off competitors such as Rock Band which is a much better party game although their guitar sections are not as well honed as Guitar Hero. I expect to see some interesting community features being released with the next iteration on this genre, and hopefully a lot more songs. We'll see.

On a related note here's a custom Guitar Hero song for "My Baby's Bad" from my brother's band Lion Ride.

Do not rock too hard.