Customer Reviews

Xbox 360 Les Paul Wireless Guitar

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4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
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1 star:		(9)

 

 

This is the second guitar to come packaged with a Guitar Hero game on Xbox 360. This product is guitar only; click the bundle option if you need to buy Guitar Hero III as well. Buy this to get another copy of the best--for playing purposes--guitar on the Xbox 360.

This guitar is great and works on both GH II/III as well as on Rock Band. The strum is reliable, though loud, and the frets are responsive. Other nice features are that it is black, can be customized with faceplates, and is wireless. Two AA batteries last a good while, maybe 20-40 hours.

The sole downside is that the edge of the guitar where your lower arm may rest is not really comfortable, so your skin may feel a bit chafed after extended play. Still recommended over anything else, especially that Rock Band guitar, which doesn't even work on Guitar Hero.

I'm in a tough spot. I loathe the design of the Rockband guitars - the strum bars feel too stiff, the buttons are loud, the guitar is terrible at sensing when you raise it vertical for star power. That leaves the guitar hero guitars as a backup. Fortunately, the Les Paul frets, strum bar and star power accelerometer all work exactly as they should. I like precision when I'm playing, so I like to hear the click from the strum bar and a super-fast reset back to the neutral position so you can strum again. In short, when the les paul is working, it is *perfect.*

The problem is, the guitar is never really working properly. This is mostly due to some really terrible design decisions. The neck detatches (presumably for easy transport), and as such there is another set of contacts between the neck and body. Turns out they really screwed up the design of this section and most people's guitar neck and bodies tend to separate and lose contact with eachother. This leads to buttons not working properly.

To make matters worse, Activision and Red Octane's return system is a travesty compared to EA's and rockband. When something in RB breaks(and believe me, it does. Often.), I can go to the EA website, tell them it is broken and within about 2 minutes, they are sending me a replacement drum set or guitar or kick pedal, as well as a prepaid box to send back the broken instrument.

When I tried to replace my les paul after the red and blue buttons stopped working after *two weeks* I had to send them an email which took a few days to get a response on, then it was MY responsibility to send them their defective product, then I got to wait 4-6 weeks while they deduce that it is, indeed, broken, then they sent me a refurbished one back. Oh, and the only reason I even got this pathetic level of service was because my guitar was still under 90-day warranty.

p.s., The replacement guitar also stopped picking up the green button after about 10 days. I ended up unhooking and repositioning the circuitboard/contact plate on the neck of the guitar myself, and it was upgraded from "unplayable" to "merely irritating."

Weak.

Guitar works fine when it's working. The detachable neck sucks though. The contacts lose connection and you are stuck with a guitar that doesn't work.

I bought this guitar as a back up to my GH world tour guitar I love this guitar I play it more than the other one. Having this extra one we can jam as a band with bass, guitar and drums.
Rock on.

We have had two broken guitars within 1 year. On both occasions, the green buttons stopped working. 1st guitar had problems within a month.. second one lasted about 6 months. Thankfully - we bought at Costco, so the returns were painless. While we love Guitar Hero III, the guitar is problematic to say the least.

the wireless les paul sucks. the game is fun id rate it 5*, but this guitar sucks.

they made it so the neck of the guitar comes off, which is apparently for better storage but who cares. now thanks to that sometimes when u hit long notes and hold them, they break off randonly because of that stupid detachable neck.

on my guitar i have the green button like everyone else but it is hard to press in i dont think all the guitars are like that but it bugs me, and for some reason the select button doesnt work wen i try to use it to activate star power. which is something i need for star power (ill explain down below) and again i dont think that that will happen with all the les pauls but that also bugs me. and maybe the select button doesnt activate star power on GH II but it does on GH III and i tested it and it didnt work.

the reason i need the select button is because the les paul is so touchy. im telling the truth, you will not move and star power will go off. but then sometimes you will throw that guitar around and star power wont go off. its retarded. so to control the star power, i have to stand up with the guitar slightly pointed down. at first star power always went off, but then i just straightened the guitar, but it still happened, so now, like i said up above, i hold it slightly tilted downwards wen i get starpower. and doing that is annoying and uncomfortable, and sometimes i will lift the guitar up adn fly around my room with that thing and star power still wont go off. man this guitar sucks most of the time.

but two good things, batteries come with it, and the guitar doesnt eat up up the batteries. and its wireless so there is no cord to hassle with.

but yea id reccomend another type of wireless guitar if there is one, or a wired one cuz this one is just to touchy, and also for me (i dont know if u have this problem but i do) the green button is hard to press down, and the select button doesnt work so that sux.

it is fun but i have broken 3 of them because of a bad conection between the neck and bace get Rock Band 2 instead it is more fun and lasts longer

The detachable fret board has a chronic and annoying problem. There are six retractable pins on the inside that have to be cleaned before proper function occures with regular (more than once a week) cleanings to make this guitar work. I discovered this AFTER returning two and then looking up online what was up with this guitar.

I highly recommend future guitar designs to be a one piece body construction. Don't be cheap, just make it right the first time.

While this feels much better than the guitar hero II model, the collapsible neck is its flaw...not a plus. Since it can detach, over time, it gets some slack and makes bad contact with the circuits in the body, causing certain buttons to "not work". With me it's the green button, with my buddy's it's the blue button. I like the Rock Band model, since it's a lil larger and quieter. I wouldn't recommend this guitar, since the market is being flooded by so many others. And for 360, the Rock Band guitar does work for Guitar Hero, and vice versa.

We & kids played this thing for untold hours and literally wore it out. Not the products fault...it is a good product...but we simply put so many hours on it...it gave up the ghost. HIGHLY recommend it.