
By the time you hit expert, you'll be ready to slide up and down the neck of the guitar to hit all five of the buttons. Hard difficulty does the same thing with the fifth button, giving you time to get used to pressing it with your pinky, which, let's face it, isn't normally much of a gaming finger. Eventually, you'll start using that fourth button more and more as you move down the song list. Medium difficulty steps things up by only occasionally working in the fourth button. Also, you'll be playing easier songs when you first start, and you'll work your way through multiple brackets of tracks as you play. But starting on easy, which only uses three of the five buttons, is a great way to get used to playing the game.

Anyone jumping into even the medium difficulty setting without a decent amount of experience isn't likely to get very far. This is probably the smartest part of the entire game. Unlike most rhythm games, Guitar Hero has a career mode that sort of dictates how you should proceed through the five difficulty settings. Also worth noting, the guitar isn't compatible with Konami's Guitar Freaks games, so if you're looking to replace your increasingly rare and somewhat flimsy Konami guitars, you're out of luck.
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Technically, you could play Guitar Hero on a standard PS2 controller, if you wanted to, but it's not nearly as interesting without the guitar. Some notes have lines attached to them, implying that you should hold down that note for a longer period of time, similar to the freeze arrows found in Dance Dance Revolution. Each color corresponds to one of the buttons on the guitar, which you must hold down while strumming on the flipper. The game screen consists of a scrolling fret board that has various colored notes on it. The guitar feels pretty solid and generally well-made.

And, just for kicks, it's got a whammy bar. Instead of strings to pluck, a small, clicky flipper is on the body of the guitar. Guitar Hero is played with a special guitar-shaped controller that has five buttons up on the neck, with one on each of the first five frets. By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
