You can buy GHII/III/Aerosmith used dirt cheap.

Who cares if Activision gives a shit about full band support? I gave you the reasons it was created, and those are the new features to re-release the tracks. On top of that, what publisher isn't just trying to get a buck out of us consumers? Really, get off your high horse. Giving customers what they want is exactly what publishers want to do because that is how the keep people coming back. This was being requested by GH fans ever since World Tour got released and Activision listened. That is EXACTLY what making consumers happy is.

Using IGN as an end all be all of review scores is bullshit. If we're going to use reviews, then use the averages. Guitar Hero III, Guitar Hero: World Tour and Guitar Hero: Metallica all have almost the exact same Metacritic.

Regarding Madden, I have a strong feeling you don't even play the series, so unless you actually know something about the game and can comment on what is so wrong about it, why not quit making such ignorant comments? There are those of us that actually DO play Madden that see online leagues as a pretty significant upgrade which was just created last year.

What is wrongw with IGN? And  since when are you so into protecting Activision?I mean I have been playing all the guitar hero games(and beat them all and  I am a member of the guitar hero community scorehero so I would know).Plus my point has been proven if you read this thread you will see that a member here stated the he owns previous games and has not interest in getting this one why would he anyway to get more of the same only with some "full band support upgrade"? If you are so into this games you can easily get the others  for cheap.I give you the reason about the madden series I mean I haven´t played them but it was just an example of a milked series I just put it there since there are people on the forums who bring it up all the time.

IGN does not represent the entire game reviewing community. You can't just sit there and take IGN's reviews as fact to show a decline in the series because there are plenty of other reviewers with differing opinions. You also left out GH: Metallica, which actually scored comparably on IGN with GHIII. I wouldn't expect you to actually disprove your own point though, so I'm sure you felt you had no choice but to leave it out in the hopes people forgot it released a little over a month ago.

One member in a single thread is anecdotal nonsense. It can't even qualify as anecdotal evidence, it's so weak.  Get a stronger argument.

It isn't "only full band support". Not everybody got into the game to play guitar. Some of us actually do vocals, bass or the drums, so being able to play older goodies with the instruments of our choice is a welcome addition. If you are someone that primarily plays guitar, then obviously this might not be for you. Then again, anyone saying "only with some full band support upgrade" is probably playing too much GH by himself and not in a social atmosphere. That may be fine for others, but many(including myself) only enjoy playing the games in a social environment with others. GH, GHII, GHIII, GH: Aerosmith and GH: Rock the 80's are useless to me.

Again about Madden, if you don't play the series and are only spitting tired cliched lines from other members, than I suggest you stop being a parrot and start getting your own opinions.

Define dirt cheap............  like $40 including the guitar for PS2???

First, on topic... Awesome track list... I can not wait, I didn't get into GH until 3, I am glad they are releasing this so I can play the old songs on my newer consoles.

Second... MOD FIGHT!!!

Oh and I forgot another important point.

For Xbox 360 owners, they don't have access to Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero: Rock the 80s. This will be their first time.

For PS3 owners that don't have backwards compatibility, they don't have access to Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II and Guitar Hero: Rock the 80s.

For Wii owners, they don't have access to Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II and Guitar Hero: Rock the 80s.

So unless we are only talking about PS2 owners here, every other console in question is missing out on at least two of the following Guitar Hero titles of the past. Is that reason enough now?

They should just release the songs as DLC, it's much better to have all the songs in one game than having to switch discs to play all the songs you want, EA does this allowing you imports songs to RB2. Other thing that I would love is Bluetooth instruments for PS3!

I just checked on amazon, I found GH1/2/3/aerosmith all in the $5-$10 range used with no guitar. I bet for $60 you could get a guitar and 3 or 4 GH games.

If you didn't know I will tell you flat out that I despise looking at review scores.  What I did do however was go back to GH3 and onwards to look at every review from IGN of a 360 GH game after GHIII (ie Aerosmith, GH: IV, and Metallica) and read them. 

About Aerosmith they said: "Even if the formula is a bit stale by now, that doesn't make Guitar Hero: Aerosmith a bad game. In fact, if you're a huge fan of the band, of the Guitar Hero franchise, or haven't yet seen what all of the fuss is over the music rhythm phenomenon, this release will please and then some.".  When you get right down to it the game recieves a lower score for being too much like the older GH games that people loved.  And note I'm not objecting to that, games should grow and standards do change.

About World Tour there is no specific quote to give, but basically Roper has a problem with the fact that many of the band centric features of Rock Band are not implemented such as notifications for when someone in the band is floundering etc...  These are legitimate complaints and I'm not going to critique his score but the bottom line is that these are problems arising from their additions to the game not due to any feature stagnation.  A number of the problems he points out are in fact fixed in GH: Metallica and the fact that the game matches the 8.9 of your benchmark GH: III speaks volumes.

One of my pet peeves is to READ READ READ the review.  Aside from the fact that the scoring is 100% subjective you also have the issue that a 90/100 doesn't tell you WHY those 10 points are missing or WHY the game earned those 90 points it does have.  If you don't know the why, the context, you don't actually know what the scores mean..you just have a conveniant number that was subjectively assigned and will be subjectively interpreted.

Don't take this as me harping on you, I'm not trying to tell you what to think, but I do hope you consider the point I'm making about reading reviews and ignoring the scores.

The last thing I'll say, and this is directed more broadly to those with concerns like ctk not just ctk, is simply that any who liked GHIII will still enjoy every GH after GH: III...its the same core gameplay with new features added on.  If you get worn thin by the game then don't buy every installment and wait for the really good installments (ie GH2, GH3, Metallica, etc..) to get your fix.