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First thing I should mention is that as far as tactile feedback is concerned, I prefer the Rock Band Guitar peripheral to the Guitar Hero alternatives. I've always hated that obnoxious clicking sound that the Guitar Hero guitar controllers made. That said, build quality seems to have gone down as this portion of the rhythm has evolved, which is a tragic reality of planned obsolescence. Often the 'strum bar' will break down with moderate use after less than a year, becoming unresponsive in one direction or the other (i.e. 'up', stops working). The internal gyro which detects controller movement, which triggers the Overdrive feature in Rock Band and Star Power in Guitar Hero also breaks down over time, becoming unreliable. Finally, the fret buttons eventually begin to become unresponsive as well. I can tell you that I played my original Guitar Hero controller for more than a year (sometimes with less than tender care) and it still works perfectly. Overall, because it is freely replaceable, it is hard to ding it too harshly for these shortcomings, but it still represents a sorrowful trend of declining build quality.
I ordered a Rock Band guitar for Christmas. When tried to use it on Christmas morning, it wouldn't work at all! I wrote to Hitgaming and told them of the issue. They sent out a new replacement guitar right away which arrived about a week later. The new unit works perfectly. This company's customer service can't be beat!! I would definitely do business with them again.
I shopped for this standalone guitar through the Rockband.com website and it processed the purchase through Amazon. My only disappointment throughout the process was the photograph of the guitar shown on the Rockband store site was of a different color than what was received. The image shown on the Amazon site was of a box instead of the guitar. I understood the guitar was the same design as the guitar that is bundled with the Rockband bundle but was expecting a different color. Aside from that disappointment, I am very pleased with the guitar and it is identical to the guitar we got with the game.
It came really quickly in 2 days. It had a lot of scratches and marks on the guitar but it's alright. It didn't come with a strap and the strum bar is crapy works only sometimes
Does the job but its hard to use star power, the sensor seems to be less sensitive than it should be. Guitars looked slightly worn, but they were used and i was expecting as much. However, the package was received in record time.
The the guitar works fine and pretty much smoothly but the buttons are clicky. If you dont turn your tv on high or wear heahphones like i do you might get annoyed by the noise coving the music.
I wanted to use this for Rock Band 3 because well, the new guitar looks like the old one from Rock Band 1, which sucks. But at least i found this one still available and it works perfectly! I recommend this over any other guitar Rock Band offers.
