As for the actual guitar, it works great and is tons of fun to play. I usually play the drums, although I've been slowly saving up for more instruments. This is my third instrument (the other being the microphone), and it's great to just sit on my bed and rock out with the guitar. The drums can be a bit more involved, especially if you are sick, so the guitar is nice to relax with. Oddly, the box inside the box art says it's a Rock Band 2 guitar, but I checked the picture differences between the RB2 and RB3 guitar, and I definitely got the RB3 guitar, so you should too.
Otherwise, great deal, but if you're not sure, look around for more deals. Plenty of post-Christmas Rock Band bundles are out there, so check them out.
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I overnight the product because i had some friends coming over for easter weekend and i had the guitar, drum set and microphone from beatles rockband... wow... It got here in time and what a great product, i was thinking to sell the game on amazon, because i have been playing rockband and lego rockband so i really didn't see the point to own another rockband game, well i was wrong... we had so much fun!!Best Deals for Mad Catz Rock Band 3 Guitar Bundle - Red Hot Chili Peppers Bonus
Many moons ago when the earth was young, a small 16 year old me asked for Guitar Hero 4 for Christmas. I loved that game, I played it a lot and when I got rock band 1 and 2 I loved them even more. I played them all the time, me and my friends beat the living crap out of my peripherals until they all barely functioned. I've thrown my guitars at walls, both accidentally and on purpose. I've broken and resoldered every single drum pad multiple times. I've yanked my Xbox off many a shelf while trying to do a drunken mic stand flip, destroying several discs in the process. These controllers treated me extremely well over these long years.That being said, my guitar strum bar doesn't function, my other guitar's star power tilty thingy doesn't work anymore. The drums are held together by hot glue and the hopes and dreams of a dying child I had imprisoned at an occult funeral I once attended. I needed something new.
Seeing as how guitar hero controllers are like 70 dollars a piece, I decided to break down and go for some official Rock Band gear to go with my cruddy broken stuff. This was a no brainier, it was in my price range, had Amazon Prime shipping, and came with Rock Band 3! A game I had wanted for SO LONG! So I bought it.
This is such a nice guitar! The buttons push down with a satisfying feeling. You can feel the switch depress. This feels so much nicer than guitar hero's mushy fret keys. Also, this has auto calibration which works on most systems. A couple times I've had to set Rock Band up with some wack surround sound system that isn't set up correctly and that resulted in me having to calibrate it manually, but in most cases it works great!
The major downside is to this guitar has the Rock Band mushy strum bar. Coming from guitar hero I'm used to a satisfying click to let me know when the button is depressed. Lining these clicks up with the beat of the song sets the tempo and without this I sucked. It takes some getting used to, but after a while I don't notice it as much.
Rock Band 3 is awesome. The menu system has been super upgraded and it has a real focus on multiplayer mode now. People can pop in and out of a song at will and controllers can come in and out, all without having to pause the game! The game has a more refined focus on the gameplay as opposed to the score, which is great! I played this game to have a good time with my friends, not to have some pompous Simon-Cowell-esque game tell me we sucked. Also there are the pro instruments! I bought the pro keys controller and let me tell you it is a LOT harder and a LOT more realistic and as a result it is a LOT more fun! Especially with the games newly found focus on making things easier and more fun! I love it.
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So, what I'm saying is, if you have the patience to get to this point in the review, BUY IT! If you want Rock Band 3, which you can't find in stores anymore because apparently it's been discontinued, BUY IT! If you need a new guitar because you broke yours trying to spin it around your body but the strap came off and you really just threw it against the wall behind you but nobody saw but everyone heard so you had to make up a story about you knocking something off of something else to appease them, BUY IT! If you also like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and also need rock band and a new guitar BUY IT! It's worth it, and you'll love it, and it'll love you and everything will be awesome....
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