Guitar Hero Episode on South Park


This week's episode poked fun at the Guitar Hero phenomenon.

I really enjoyed when Stan's dad whips out his guitar and starts playing Kansas' "Wayward Son", telling the boys, "see, I can play it on a real guitar!", and the boys aren't impressed at all. That's my house. Only my youngest son contemplates (can you contemplate something when you're only six?) stepping up to a real guitar. He's already halfway there. He's got attitude: "When I have my own band, I'm gonna rock!"

We just got Guitar Hero III : Legends of Rock, which actually is Guitar Hero IV, if you include Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s. It came with a wireless controller/guitar that looks like a Stratocaster, which is sort of interesting, since Gibson must have paid for exclusive rights to be the only guitar maker in the game.

Some of the songs are ancient, which is funny. "Sunshine of Your Love", "Paint It Black", "Black Magic Woman"? Those songs were old when I was a kid. Plus it has what must be the requisite Sabbath and ZZ Top songs. Like all the games in the series, the final set of songs sucks. "Devil Went Down To Georgia"? WTF?

Posted: Fri - November 9, 2007 at 12:48 PM      

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