Guitar Hero 3

So as I mentioned previously, my wife and I took the plunge into being a full Nintendo family (2 DS's and a Wii.) With big trade in we managed to score Guitar Hero 3 for Wii along with two guitars. It is this that I will spend most of the time blogging about.

When we got Guitar Hero for Wii my wife took a renewed interest in it and has actually been doing quite well (she's currently playing Anarchy in the UK on medium.) While we are no means hard-core guitar hero junkies, we both greatly enjoy the game. I'm almost though the entire medium game (just beat Slash) while Amy is making good progress in the UK. Her character though....oh lord....she chose the J-Pop girl (her name currently escapes me) but she took some of the money she won and got the puffball outfit (where the girls has two massive puffs on the side of her head) got some horrid colored outfit and then has the star guitar with the black and red finish...let me tell you, it's one of the scariest things I've ever seen in a video game (and I've played a lot of crazy games.) NOTE: She just got 3 stars in Anarchy in the UK (it was kind of rough toward the end there.) My wife did manage to score 5 starts on My Name is Jonas which she was super proud of.



Ok, so that's not Amy playing but the song is freakin' awesome so I decided to put the video in there. Here's the real band Weezer doing it too:



Kind of cool really how many groups have finally caught on to the Guitar Hero franchise. I'm pretty excited to see what's in store for the new Guitar Hero game due out later this month, from the previews it looks like it's going to be an awesome game. I am a bit sad to see them moving more toward the Rock Band style, with the drums and the singer and the guitar, but hopefully the game will still rock. Ok, just made the mistake of looking up at the TV screen to see Amy's scary as hell character again...am gonna have nightmares about that thing tonight...mark my words. Now she's on to Shanker's Island and the *shudder* Scorpions Rock You Like a Hurricane. Yet another group if they would have broken up in the 80's like the rest of the Hair Bands, the world would have been a better place.

I can remember being in Germany for the first time in the mid-90's (summer of 96 to be exact) and the Scorpions had a huge hit in Germany (right along with the Macarena....yeah, nough said) but the German's thought they were amazing. Then I come back to the US and sure as anything, the song is popular over here now too...I just couldn't win that summer (musically that is.)

NOTE: Holiday in Cambodia, is not agreeing well with Amy currently

Anyway, on other musical fronts, Friday is the Elton John concert...I'm really excited about this concert. Most of the people at work I've talked to about the concert seem really apathetic towards the show. I mean it's not like the guy isn't one of the most influential artists of our time or anything...right? I mean, yeah, he's gay, but so what...dude still rocks.

NOTE: Amy's moved on to the battle with Slash now...this should be good...and Slash got to use his death drain.

Ok, well Amy's gone on to playing bonus songs, maybe I can get my turn in finally.

More later on.

~C