Review: Guitar Hero 3: Muse Pack DLC

So I was doing my usual Xbox Live Marketplace browsing the games section and I saw that the Muse pack had been uploaded, from hearing it a few days ago on Kotaku I was kind of shocked since I love Muse, not as much as another editor here at 360stage(.blogspot.com) but enough to give this downloadable content a purchase. So I used the 500 microsoft which I got from my copy of Grand Theft Auto IV (big thanks to GAME for e-mailing those and some shitty gamer pictures by the way) which brings me to my next shocker, yeah... I took out the Grand Theft Auto IV disk out of my 360... I was in awe.

So after the 96MB or so of downloading the pack I look around for my guitar which had been gathering dust... something about the third installment of Guitar Hero didn't feel right...

Suprisingly there was no update for the game which was strange, I swear it tries to rival Gears of War in patches but anyway, the first song I played was Super Massive Black Hole, love that song seriously, it also happens to be very easy, I would place it in the 2nd tier of songs in the game. The note chart for this appears to be right but it personally isn't my favourite to play. Then I played Stockholm Syndrome and failed, by the way I am trying these all on Expert first time round, after entering a coma-esque mode from playing Super Massive Black Hole it seemed weird, I'll get back to that song in a second. So the last song in the pack I played was Exo-Politics, it was never my favourite Muse song but playing it made fingers dance... like "Radio Song"... no? Well maybe it was just me I love the finger movement where you have to space your fingers out just makes the game feel more... funky.

Let's get this bastard, Stockholm Syndrome I will conquer it, palms sweating, fingers bleeding. What's this? I'm fucking doing it, I am raping this intro... this is amazing. I play the song and my hands feel like they're on fire! Well thanks Matt, Dom and Chris. Brilliant songs. So if you have not gathered by the score and actually had read the review rather than scrolled down the review and this paragraph, then Muse DLC is worth a purchase, Muse fan or not... because if you're not a Muse fan, you are a twat.

--Josh Pollard, 360Stage Editor--