Guitar Hero Van Halen is an odd entry in the crowded music gamespace. Guitar Hero Metallica, Activision's last band-focused Guitar Hero game, was a great homage to the band. Band history, trivia, interviews, and an extensive collection of songs spanning the band's entire career made it a great entry in the Guitar Hero series and a must-have for anyone with a remote interest in the band. There's none of that in Guitar Hero Van Halen, which is a pretty basic Guitar Hero game that happens to have a track list that's primarily made up of Van Halen songs.
Outside Xbox: "Plenty of achievements are hard work, that's the point. Some games take it too far, though, with gamerscore rewards that definitely aren't worth the enormous effort you have to put in to earn them. Here are the most egregious examples of games having absolutely zero respect for your time."
Game Bosh: It's perhaps not the best of signs when a video game is given away for free long before its original release. It's even worse when just a few months after that actual release, the game is already sitting in the bargain buckets.
Meristation: The Guitar Hero saga saga created by Red Octane and Harmonix ago a whopping five years has gone further than its creators could never have dreamed. His initial idea of incorporating a guitar-shaped peripheral has expanded to enable us to form our own rock band in the company of three friends at the controls of bass, drums and microphone
