Customer Reviews

PS3 Guitar Hero Les Paul Wireless Guitar

5 star:		(17)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(10)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

I'm a huge Guitar Hero fan. The design of this product is fantastic. But the responsiveness is where it sucks.

Let me explain why. It will work great for people on Easy and Medium. But when it comes to Hard and Expert, it will not be very willing to cooperate. The guitar uses a 2.4Ghz wireless USB dongle instead of the PS3's built-in Bluetooth (Great, I have to search for it if I lose it). If you have to strum up and down on fast sections, it will not register some of the notes. I can get over 600,000 points on Through the Fire and Flames on Expert on the Wii version of this game, but I can get only around 400,000 with the PS3 version using this guitar (Yes, I'm serious, I'm an expert player). It always doesn't register a note on the Intro during my 2-hand tapping and I have strum again to get back on the hammer-on and pull-off path. When I have to strum up and down on fast sections, it won't register some of the notes. (Wow, I wonder why this is getting so many 5 star reviews.)

If you plan to play on Easy and Medium the whole time, this guitar is ok. But if you plan to play on Hard or Expert, then I recommend finding a different guitar.

I have the GHWT kit and needed an extra axe. I picked up the Legends of Rock Slash les paul double guitar/game set.

The guitar is shorter than the stock GH guitar so playing it while sitting is painful because its too short for an average sized adult. It feels like your playing a child's toy.

The action is rough and laggy due to the sloppiness in the strum bar. The stock GH-WT guitar is beautiful compared to this guitar with the slider on the neck and the crisp quiet strum bar that is so much more responsive and quick to recover during fast strumming.

I really thought this product would be of better quality. With the Gibson name on the head I guessed Gibson quality would shine throughout, I was sad to learn this was not the case.

I'll be selling both les pauls on ebay and looking for a new guitar.

It took Red Octane to much time to get their act together and sell an unbundled Les Paul Guitar controller but they finally did. Guitar works great and I have not noticed any interference between the two guitars when playing multi-player. The addition of a second guitar makes this game even more fun.

Amazon also sells this controller $10 cheaper than if you buy it directly from Red Octane. The order process through Amazon was also outstanding. I paid for two day shipping and got the controller one day after placing the order. Great work Amazon and better late than never Red Octane!

I have purchased this guitar and it arrived fast. But the blue button was not working, and shortly after the yellow one didn't as well. Thank God Amazon has an awesome return policy but the guitar is total crap! You can buy standard guitar hero controller or purchase one that is not wireless.

Wasn't sure if this was going to work with games:PS3 Guitar Hero 5 or Rock Band 2 It does...AWESOME. Had problems locating 2nd guitar for guitar hero 5 PS3, this does the job and for the price I'm gonna order a couple more so we can all play. I love the compatibility of Guitar Hero 5 with Rock Band 2; drums, guitar, bass etc....
A big high 5 on this one wtg....thanks

I know 11 people with this guitar and it broke for me and all of them. It is fun when it works but the buttons are doomed to fail. I tried many complicated fixes but a week later the buttons just stopped working, again. The problem is that the neck is detachable. Because the neck is detachable the buttons go away from the connections. If it all was in one piece the connections would be aligned and the buttons would work. After a month of using it the yellow button failed. After that the blue one failed. Then the red one. Then the orange one. And now I have this crap guitar with only one working button. This guitar is fun but it won't last long.

Perfect little Les Paul. All we need now is the hat and the wig. Instant setup, instant jamming! Clearly, Axel Rose is weeping over the success of this man. That's a beautiful thing.

Stay away from this guitar.
It is a good 3-4 inches smaller than the standard one and is of a much cheaper construction. My yellow button stopped working 2 months after purchasing it.
Spend a little more money and buy the original guitar.

Got this back in Nov 08 and it's unplayable after 6 months of 2x/week play by my girlfriend who plays bass on medium. In contrast I play the offical GHWT guitar on hard and it still plays great.

The strum doesn't register all the time so it misses about 5-10% of the notes. When she plays on the official guitar she does 5-10% better (as do I).

It's also smaller and flimsier than the GHWT guitar.

After owning this guitar for not even a week it lost the resistance on the strum bar so when you strummed it didn't retract back 100% to be strummed again it was very floppy DO NOT PURCHASE THIS GUITAR!!!