Guitar Hero Goodness

I asked for Guitar Hero for my birthday (well, actually I asked for Rock Band, but I was realistic about what I had any chance of actually getting). In fact, at the time, I got Frets On Fire, which was a lot of fun and had a few advantages over Guitar Hero:

1. It's much more comical. I personally think that the tutorial is one of the funniest things I have seen all year. Most other people find it amusing also (if not quite as much as me), which leads to the next point.
2. It's amusing for other people watching you play. If you think that watching your friends holding a plastic toy guitar and pretending to be Eddie Van Halen is funny, imagine the same thing, but holding a computer keyboard upside down. Classic.
3. It lets you access all the songs, at all levels, right from the start. This is both an advantage and a disadvantage... you can play any song you want, which is a fun idea right up until you accidentally pick a song that is REALLY HARD just 'cause you like it. And did I mention the songs are listed in alphabetical, not difficulty, order? You've got no idea whether a song will be easy or hard to play till you find yourself struggling to hit one note in five.

But yesterday, we actually got actual guitar hero. And an xbox360, the first console I have owned since my sega game gear (which I think is still around here somewhere...). And I am happy. Guitar hero has many, many advantages over Frets on fire, but the greatest advantage has to be the ability to rock out. Rocking out is FUN.

And I'm one step closer to getting rock band, and annoying all the neighbours with my drum solos...