Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is probably a 5-star game if you're a huge fan!

I'm not, so I rented the game and enjoyed it enough to give it 3-stars. It's essentially the same game (with same tutorial) as Guitar Hero 3. The key differences are: 1) the song selection is much shorter, 2) the song difficulty is much easier...maybe Joe Perry's not the axe-master I always thought he was.

The graphics are fun, they got Steven Tyler's mouth and wardrobe changes down perfectly. During load time there's interviews with the entire band that gives some fun insights into the progression of their career. However, I was shocked that some key Aerosmith hits like "Angel", "Dude Looks Like a Lady", "Janie's Got a Gun", and "Don't Want to Miss a Thing" weren't on the play list. I know some people might comment that they're ballads or too slow and easy to play. Who cares! I'd rather have some easy songs and have the full run of Aerosmith hits than to have 40 songs in total (especially for those paying $60). When you make a game based on a rock group...give us as much of their collection as possible! The game should at least cover the "greatest hits".

A minor annoyance with the entire GH series is dealing with the achievements on the Xbox 360. In Guitar Hero 3 a majority of the achievements are so impossibly hard to get you'd need to be Yngwie Malmsteen to even come close. However, in GH:A I managed to unlock 5 all on one song (when I wasn't even trying). Not sure if the game makers are treating achievements like a joke or what, but I know many gamers use these as a goal to work towards. So for future games it would be nice if some form of balance can be struck and an achievement can manage to be both challenging and obtainable all at the same time.

I still want to give props to the GH franchise for doing a band-centric game. Heck, any game that opens with Cheap Trick's "Dream Police" can't be bad! Hopefully the Young Brothers will open up the AC/DC catalog for a future version. Actually, I'm surprised that the money-making franchise formerly known as "Gene Simmons" doesn't already have a KISS game in the pipes.

Oh well, if you're jonesing for some guitar playing fun then GH:A should keep you entertained for at least 3-7 days. But a full purchase is probably not necessary.

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The gameplay and graphics are similar to Guitar Hero 3, which I expected. What I was disappointed with was the number of songs. There are about 40 songs total which can be played in Guitar Hero: Aerosmith as compared to around 70 for its predecessor.

I was also displeased with the difficulty of the game. I played through the game on Expert difficulty without once failing a song. I may be good at the game but I certainly could not do that the first time I played through Guitar Hero 3...or 2. Some of the songs are rather boring to play along with too. Either they are slow or just repetive. You get bored and start missing notes because you just don't care anymore and just want the song to be over.

Most of the achievements are easy to unlock so you can rent the game and accomplish that over a weekend. So unless you are a huge Aerosmith fan I don't recommend buying this game. It is just not worth $60 for almost half the songs as the previous game...although I'll probably make myself a hypocrit when I purchase Guitar Hero: Metallica when it is released early in 2009.

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I bought this via pre-order, so I didn't have a chance to see the setlist before buying it (unless it was published somewhere that I didn't find). I was VERY disappointed with this game. Like the others have said, it's almost exactly like GH3, but with different songs. Also, as previously mentioned, it's extremely easy to beat in comparison to the rest of the games in the GH franchise. For the money I spent, there should have been a lot more content. I thought that with an entire game devoted to the band, that there'd be more songs that I loved growing up, but unfortunately that was not the case. Quite frankly, I'm ticked and would like my money back. Why weren't their other hits included, like Janie's Got a Gun, Angel, Crying, Dude Looks Like a Lady, etc? Very poorly put together if you ask me. It looks like Activision is just wanting to take advantage of GH fans by charging them a lot and delivering very little. I love GH, and I love Aerosmith, but I say this from the bottom of my heart: don't buy it.

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Personally, I love that they chose Aerosmith as the first band to have their own individual version. The songs are catchy as always and playing it on a controller guitar makes it even more so. The interface is the same as Guitar Hero III, Steven Tyler's moves, and the songs where Joe and Steve interact make it even more great for the Aerosmith faithful.

The problem comes up for the Guitar Hero vet. If you've played GHIII for hours on end, you'll notice the lack of content. AS priceless as the songs are, there really isn't much of them. There are 31 basic career mode songs with around 10 hidden. There doesn't seem to be any downloadable content coming at all. So if you are a die hard Guitar Hero player I wouldn't suggest buying it. Wait for more songs to come out for GHIII and/or wait for WORLD TOUR to hit the shelves.

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I typically play at the medium level as I get more acquainted with the hard setting. But its all relative song to song. I happen to get this game used and heavily discounted so it seemed like a good deal. After playing it, which took a few hours to complete, I was dissatisfied for a few reasons.

First - ALL of the songs seemed way too easy. Even for me. I am sure I could do this game on the hard mode. But I felt like the song choices and the charting were either over simplified, or the songs were just no engaging enough to really "feel" the guitar playing.

Second - Aerosmith plays as the main band while a few other bands are the "warm up" band at each segment. While this is cool and places Aerosmith at the spotlight, even their songs were not challenging. Many of the Aerosmith songs were questionable as far as the choices concerned, and I believe none of them are album edits, but RH versions. Maybe Aeorsmith fiddled with some of it to add into the game. I was not thrilled by it.

Third - The "note highway", when Aerosmith plays, is littered with some logo that really distracts your seeing the notes clearly, especially the yellow note. That s my major annoyance by this game.

Fourth - Including Run DMC - whom I felt was actually the hardest song of the game, was also included in the 'Walk This Way' version. Why they decided to give Run DMC props in a game dedicated to Aerosmith is almost insulting,

Overall, it was not the best GH game out, but fun to include in your library if you have the rest. For band oriented GH games, I would go with Metallica. Otherwise, if you find this cheap (cheaper than rental), then I would grab it.

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When I bought GH:Aerosmith, it was mostly because the offerings in GH2 and GH3 were starting to wear a little thin, and I was getting tired of playing the same tracks over and over again.

However, the game was an immediate disappointment. The song offerings are, by far, the weakest of any of the GH games. Even if you're a big Aerosmith fan (which I'm not), I can't imagine that this game would have any staying power. Even the add-on songs are very limited, and all just more Aerosmith offerings. No lesser-known bands, no introduction to new music you might not have heard otherwise... just more of the same tired old catalog.

To make matters worse, not only are the song options limited and dull, but the songs themselves aren't that difficult to beat. By comparison, while I was able to beat all songs on GH2 on Hard, and struggle on Expert, and struggle with 1 or 2 hard songs on GH3, I beat every GH:A song on hard with no problem, with only 3 songs I didn't earn 5 stars on. It lost it's replay value so quickly that after beating hard, trying to beat Expert became more of a task of tedium than a goal I truly wanted to beat.

I've ended up going back to GH3 and Rock Band, and played both more since buying GH:A than I've played GH:A.

I really only see this game having lasting appeal to true die-hard Aerosmith fans (add 1 star if you are), and even then, I'm skeptical.

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This is not an "Amazing",or a "Crazy",or a "Jaded" game....it has none of those songs.

one would expect these songs to be obligatory in an Aerosmith game...only fillers on this mediocre game.

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I beat this game in about 3 hours, never failed a song, 5 starred 95% of the songs on my first try. Pathetically easy. Not enough songs. Activision is just trying to make some easy money. Do not buy it...just rent it.

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