Track List

Guitar Hero has always had a song set anyone could rock out to. At least five or six would insert themselves into player’s heads and never leave, forcing them to play that song at least once each time the guitar was picked up. But with original Guitar Hero developer Harmonix now working on Rock Band, does that move with the developer or stay with the name?

There’s no good answer, as there are clearly huge differences between motive. RB needs songs with good parts for not just the guitar, but bass, drums and singing. Sure, GH3 has bass as well, but it’s always about the guitar, man! Only a few songs go full out with the bass in GH3, where RB needs to have something for everyone.

RB, however, never left us scratching our heads about a song choice. Sure, there are some songs that make you shiver with memories of a worse time, but that’s to be expected. The same happened for Guitar Hero’s 1, 2 and Rock the 80’s.

Before we hit up which songs are hits and misses, let’s take a quick look at the statistics. Only seven out of 45 songs in RB, not including the extras, aren’t master tracks, which is incredible compared to GH2. That's a 75% increase in master tracks! GH3, however, has 27out of 46 songs that are master tracks, over double the covers from RB. And to make matters worse, even one of GH3’s bonus tracks isn’t a master track, which completely misses the point.