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  Allan October 27, 2010 at 8:45 pm

  First Impressions:

  Gold Starring on Expert is easier in this iteration.

  As always my favourite song proves to be the hardest for me to play (in this case “Oh My God” by Ida Maria).

  I love that you can pick the characters who make up your band, instead of inserting ones that annoy you into your lineup at random.

  Before I changed her haircut, my customized player was a dead ringer for Oscar winner Tilda Swinton.

  It’s really super annoying that at this point the keyboard peripheral is the gaming equivalent of the Loch Ness Monster–I’ll believe it exists when I actually see it in front of me.

  ‘Centerfold” by J. Geils Band is crazy fun to play.

  I like the use of challenges for the career mode. I especially like the options the road challenges give you, instead of forcing to play specific songs.

  Did we really need another Smash Mouth song?

  That’s my take after a day of playing. What do you think?
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  Wayne Santos November 7, 2010 at 6:59 pm

  I gave the game 90/100 for the magazine. For the most part, it’s the definitive music game of the year, but there are some puzzling steps backward. The only is buggy, and keeps booting me back to the PS3 desktop every few minutes, so that needs to be patched. I actually preferred the stand-in system in Rock Band 2, which was more permanent about assigning your stand ins to instruments, rather than the switching around that happens in RB3. I prefer the road challenge system to the World Tour, but it’s incredibly short and could have used something more comprehensive, without necessarily resorting to all the fixed setlists of the original world tour. The game seems much more centered on Quick Play than RB 1 and RB 2, but aside from that, there are massive, much needed improvements. Now if they could just fix the bugs…