- Dan stuck the landing before.  Bill Harris couldn’t be more wrong about Guitar Hero III, based on the time that I’ve put in thus far.  I picked up the 360 version earlier today and the hour or so that I put in has been terrific.  The game difficulty seems quite a bit higher on medium and I’m not 5-starring every song on that level like I have in the past games.  Another great thing about the game is the Wireless guitar.  I, L-U-V, love it.  The weight of the guitar just seems so much better, plus the star power activates without any difficulty at all.

I thought that I was really interested in Rock Band for a while, but I have a very similar feeling to what Dan does.  I see myself having to spend $170 on a game that comes with two accessories that I will never use (Guitar and Microphone) and doesn’t have an online co-op campaign mode.

Sure it has a local campaign mode, but I can’t recall the last time that I had 3 friends over at my house that would be good enough at the game to make it fun to play.  I’ve played Guitar Hero with some friends, but how often are you going to want to sit around and play Rock Band on Easy because that’s all your friends can muster because they don’t own the game.  Even if I got 3 people together that have played games like Guitar Hero before, it’s going to be a fight every time to see who plays the drums.

Also it’s a $170 this year and that’s our only pricing option.  Let me take a look at it again next year when I can just pick up the drums and the game… and I might think about it.

Oh and don’t forget that it will have album download options that I’m sure will be in that ever so attractive $15 to $20 range.

Ok, onto things that aren’t Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero.

- Hot Shots Golf 2 for the PSP looks spectacular.

- Since Bill posted about Warhammer for the DS, I think it’s nice to link to the demo for the PSP version.

- If you’re looking for the Spiderman Trilogy on Blu-Ray this week, Best Buy has it for $60.99

- C’mon Red Sox… just finish the freakin’ game so I can go to bed…