So, a couple of weeks ago when Gamespot had their Guitar Hero: World Tour bundle pack on sale I managed to snatch up on before the 360 versions were all gone. Now, I have the drums sitting out in the living room along with my guitars and mic. My parents, both in their 50's, are the ones who have been playing with me more often than not. My dad played an instrument in high school, so he's fairly comfortable with playing easy on the bass. My mom however, has no musical talent and, even worse, no hand eye coordination so she can only play on beginner. I have to say that whoever designed the beginner difficulty did a piss poor job of it. It only requires her to strum. How is that suppose to help someone who's never played the game to learn?

The drums are just as bad. The beginner once again simply requires you to tap anything, but when you actually put it on easy it becomes too hard. It doesn't help that decided to change the order of the colors, but the learning curve is pretty high when you consider that not only are you using your hands, but a foot as well. Realism is all well and good, but making things too difficult too quickly simply making it flustrating rather than fun. Once you get the hang of it, it's not so bad but anyone who has ever played a real drum set will have a nice advantage.

Last is the mic. Over all I don't have much of a complaint about it. I've only played it on easy as of yet but it is the easiest part in the band, unless you don't know the song. You might get laughed at about your pitch not matching the real thing but the game doesn't care so long as you go higher or lower with the song No Sleep Til Brooklyn by the Beastie Boys and Beat it by Micheal Jackson are the hardest ones I've personally encountered on the mic.

The custom characters aren't anything more than a shiny toy to play with. I'd have been just as happy if they had just had the default characters.

They did a good job at the variety of the songs. There are enough older songs that my parents don't complain about the newer songs. Overall, I'd give the game an 8/10.

Now, I don't often get on a soapbox and complain about things but this annoyed me. I went to the tranformers move today, which was good FYI. So, I get my sweettarts and pop, find myself a nice seat, and settle in for the next 2 1/2 hours of robot action. Well, before the previews had even started I found that the movie trivia questions had been replaced with commericals. Actually, commericals that I've seen on tv. Now, someone tell me why I paid 7.50 for the movie and then 8.50 on snacks to watch freaking commericals. That's the last thing I want to watch when I go into a movie theater. I can understand that the movie people think that they can probably make some money by selling advertising time, but that still annoyed me to end. They have a freaking Prius and camera commerical on before the movie and all I can think about for the first 1/2 hour is how annoyed I was.

It's getting harder and harder to get away from that kind of stuff itt seems. The radio, the tv, magazines, billboards, and just about everywhere else you have some company trying to stuff something down your throat. Movies always had commericals, but they were just previews and considering your at the theater it would make sense to promote upcoming films. I suppose the only way to get away from it would be to go completely off the grid.

Well, that's my two cents for what it's worth.

I don't care what that dude says, I think that this is a great game. It does have a lot of flaws in the game, but it wasn't anything I couldn't simple over look. The mix between the power you aquire later in the game with some of the fire power you get is unreal.

The Alex dude made the comment that you could simple lift your enemy and blast him. That is true but not very affective after a while. Plus you get some cool offensive powers that I wouldn't want to miss out on.

I give it a 7 out of 10. Great game, but needed a little more work. I hope that they do come out with the whole trilogy for the game.