Activision XBOX 360 Naming Your Profile, Whammy Bar, Rock Meter, Score Meter, Star Power Meter

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Naming Your Profile

It’s time to name your band! A good name can mean the difference between opening up at the local youth center and selling out a huge stadium. This band name will serve as the name of your Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Profile. You can edit this name later in “Manage Band” located in the Options Menu.

HOW TO PLAY

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock’s gameplay consists of pressing the Fret Buttons and strumming on the Strum Bar UP or DOWN in sync to the notes that are scrolling toward you on screen.

Basic ­Notes:

1.Hold the Fret Button that corresponds to the note on the screen.

2.Strum on the Strum Bar UP or DOWN to play the note. (note: If you see a string of the same notes you don’t have to release the corresponding Fret Button for each note, You can keep it held down.)

Long ­Notes ­(otherwise ­known ­as ­Sustains):

1.Hold the Fret Button down

2.Strum

3.Keep the Fret Button down until the whole note has played.

Chords:

Chords are two or more notes played at the same time. These can come in the form of Basic Notes and Long Notes.

The Whammy Bar

Press the Whammy Bar in and out on Long Notes to add your own style to each song. You’ll notice that when you are playing Long Notes, the sound of the note will actually change and bend to reflect how much you’re pressing on the Whammy Bar.

The Rock Meter

The Rock Meter is the ultimate gauge for how much you’re rocking in the game. This meter has four settings.

­­­­­­Green: Duuuude! There is no stopping you! You’re hitting just about every note thrown at you.



­Yellow: Keep on keepin’ on! You’re

putting on an ‘ok’ show. The crowd likes your moves…but they’re not scrambling to

make a bootleg of your performance.

Red: Lame! At this rate you’ll be lucky if you can get anyone to help you load your gear into the van after the show.

Flashing ­Red: Ouch! You’re moments away from failing the song unless you get your act together. Keep this up and you’ll be booted off stage and escorted from the venue.

The Score Meter

Every note you hit scores you points. If you can nail a series of notes perfectly then you’ll receive a handy ‘Score Multiplier’ which is 2-4X the value of each note you hit. Mess up and your score multiplier vanishes.

The Star Power Meter

Nothing blows an audience away like Star Power. Fill this meter up and you can unleash all the glory of Star Power and achieve scores you never thought possible. Star Power automatically doubles any score multiplier you currently have.

(The Star Power Meter needs to be at least half-full for Star Power to be available to use it.)

Difficulty Settings

The first thing every budding rock star has to decide is what difficulty they’d like to play the game.

Easy: The perfect setting for beginner players. This difficulty setting only utilizes three fret buttons - the green, red, and yellow.

Medium: This difficulty setting brings notes a little faster and utilizes four fret buttons- the green, red, yellow, and blue.

Hard: All five fret buttons are used, and some advanced skills are needed if you expect to rule in this difficulty setting.

Expert: This setting separates the champs from the chumps! This insane difficulty will have you frantically using all five fret buttons and pulling off lots of different chords.

Song Results Screen

Grade: The scale goes from up to 5 Stars, with 5 being the best. Higher grade scores earn you more cash to spend in the store in Career mode.

Score: ­This is the overall score you received on your song.

Note ­Streak: Find out how long you went without making a mistake and missing a note.

Notes ­Hit: This tells you the percentage of notes you hit in the song.

(If that wasn’t enough data for you… there’s even more stats available by clicking on the ‘More Stats’ option)



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Activision XBOX 360 manual Naming Your Profile, Whammy Bar, Rock Meter, Score Meter, Star Power Meter, Difficulty Settings