Customer Reviews

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock Guitar Bundle (Wii)

5 star:		(17)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This was our first purchase of a Guitar Hero / Rock Band type game. The game play is o.k. The songs are also fine.

What was disappointing about the game is the quality of the guitar itself. Within a week of use (mind you, by 1 kid) the strum bar started squeaking very loudly and it got progressively worse. Within a couple of weeks we stopped playing with it due to the annoyance. We found on-line that you can try to spray some cooking spray into the area and that didn't seem to do the trick.

So I took the guitar apart (NOTE: this voids the warranty - didn't want to bother with that) and lubed the two plastic bushings that the strum bar fits into with some petroleum jelly. This worked very well and has continued to work for several weeks since. Frankly, I don't know why these are assembled without lubing this part in the first place. (Plastic on plastic wear.) After looking into it, seems that this is a very common problem with this particular Guitar Hero series guitar.

It's really too bad that the folks at Activision didn't get these built with some lube on the strum bar in the first place. It would be a minimal thing to do during the assembly process and would keep an otherwise great game running great. So I've knocked a couple stars off my review.

I finally got my chance to get this a couple days ago, and so far I'm very impressed with it.

First, I'll talk about the new guitar controller and explain to you why this (or the super bundle) is completely worth it. The new guitar is sleek. All the electronics in the controller are built into the center, enabling the body itself to be completely interchangeable. I doubt I'll ever personally make use of that feature, but it's neat nonetheless. The Wii remote is inserted into a spot on the neck where the touch-pad would have been. By the way, I'm VERY happy that Activision did away with the touch-pad. I often found it to be cumbersome, overly sensitive and overall useless. This new guitar also has an improved strum bar. It's a bit smaller, it takes getting used to, but in the end it's worth it because once you get used to it, you find that it allows you to focus on the faster guitar parts that approach as the game nears its finish. Overall, one of my favorite guitar controllers yet!

Now, onto the game, and the glitch I mentioned in the title. Essentially, Warriors of Rock is Guitar Hero 5, only the songs are better, the game is a bit tougher, and the carrer mode takes a back seat to an all-new quest mode which completely turns Guitar Hero on an axis of sorts. Each set-list is centric to a particular genre. For example, Johnny Napalm (the punk with a mohawk) has an all punk-rock set, which when completed "transforms" him. This occurs for each of the different characters, each with a different genre of rock, such as classic rock, emo, southern rock, and glam.

The game also features one whole side-quest centered around the entirety of Rush's "2112". Playing it in this game truly is of a rock-godly nature. Each part is divided by cinematic narration by Rush. Though those sequences did absolutely nothing for me or the game, it was still cool to hear what exactly the band members intended for the narrative of 2112. It's probably my favorite part of the game so far.

However, the heavy metal is really prominent in this game, and in my opinion it's what truly matters. Megadeth appears THREE times in this game, which of course you may know by now that Megadeth recorded a song exclusively for this game, which by judging from the song itself sounds like is gonna be a fury for whoever plays it. Aside from that, Neversoft made darn sure the game's difficulty was kicked up a notch. I'm an Expert mode player, but I was even finding it tough to play on Hard mode here. I'm not complaining though, I'll complain when Activision allows a game as easy as GH5 ever again to be released.

But now I'm blabbering. Onto the glitch I meant. I noticed during "No More Mr. Nice Guy" by Alice Cooper that the audio totally does not play at all. I paused it to try looking up the problem online. I couldn't find anything, so I unpaused it. The good news is, the audio played. The bad news is, it was one long, irritating, repeating skip. Oddly enough, I still got a 7-star score in the game. Oh by the way, the scoring system is entirely different in this game. Like, there's no score in quest mode, aside from the multiple stars you can earn in a set.

Well, I feel lime playing more now. If anyone here reads this review and you have the same problem happen to you, please comment on this review. And if anyone else knows how I can get through to Activision to see if they're aware of this problem, please comment as well. I'm really curious to know why it does that.

So yeah, basically, what the title says. Other than that annoying glitch, this game rules.

Bought this as a Christmas gift for my mature boyfriend!! I purchased it because he fell in love with the game at an arcade and has been talking bout it since.... He loves it, so Im happy too!!

My husband and I, ages 49 and 55 pre-ordered this bundle. When we received it we allowed ourselves 15 min. of play time. After that we put it back in the box until Christmas. Two months of knowing what we were going to be able to have after Christmas was driving us crazy. We were like kids on Christmas eve!! We couldn't wait to get the gifts open and ship the kids home so we could rock out the rest of the night.

LOVE LOVE LOVE the new guitar. Would like to see a track pack for us old time jammers. Give me some Elvis...LOL

Had awesome time with this. This is why I even bought the Wii. So I can rock it out. Worth the money.

This game is so much fun. The guitar is great, the music rocks and the quest mode is fun. I was concerned that it wouldn't work well on the wii, but the response is solid and load times are quick. The difficulty progression in expert mode is almost perfect. Every time I got to a new song I felt that the previous songs had prepared me for it. Until the final megadeath songs that is, those took me a while to get through.

I really like the new guitar. The buttons a slightly more firm than other guitars which felt weird at first, but now I can't stand all the other mushy guitars. I did encounter the strum bar squeak, but I quickly realized that it only squeaked if I pushed axially. Forcing myself to push perpendicular to the axis of rotation stopped the squeak and improved my timing (not sure why that is).

I have always enjoyed GH, but this one is my favorite. It is sad that they are not continuing production I was really hoping they would have an answer for Rock Band's pro mode.

I bought this for my family a few weeks ago to go along with the rock band 3 instruments. The song selection on this game is second to none. The only problem is that it wasn't compatible with the rock band 3 drum kit. Despite my techno-savvy, I was never able to figure out the glitch. You get what you pay for with the guitar controller. Don't let the sleek appearance in the picture fool you, it is a tad generic. It is still cumbersome to get the Wii remote to fit inside, but aside from all of that, it is extremely functional. So, my take is, if you want to do a Slash/Axl Rose solo group then buy it, there is no room for Steven Adler though.

The game is good if you like playing more hardcore music. There are quite a few songs on this game that I don't know. The guitar is pretty nice as well. It is a little small, but for my girlfriend it's perfect.

The kids LOVED LOVED LOVED this game - BUT it freezes/pauses many times during play causing the player to miss notes!

I love the new guitar and the tracks are awesome. Up until now, GH4 has always been my favorite but this one might just steal the title. Highly recommended!