Dan’s Entertainment Blog

Cos I like to be entertained!

Getting in on the latest craze

Title: Guitar Hero III

Publishers: Activision

When a mate at university bought Guitar Hero for his Playstation 2 we all gathered at his house and had a go.

It was fun, exceptionally hard for me at first, being useless at most games as it is, but you start to get the hang of it and move onto the harder difficulties.

Of course Guitar Hero led on to a sequel and a… Erm… threequel? The trilogy being completed by the aptly named Guitar Hero 3. Which I recently decided to purchase, mainly in order to catch up with the constantly developing skills of my mate Keith and his throwing down of the gauntlet (mainly the challenge to complete Dragon Force’s Through the Fire and the Flames on the medium difficulty)!

Little did my uni pals and I know that, when we started becoming addicted to Guitar Hero back in our second year, we were only at the beginning of what was to be the next big thing.

The guitar shaped controller turns a simple concept (hitting the correct button at the correct time – which can be traced all the way back to Parappa the Rapper on the original Playstation and probably beyond) into an exciting world of rock music, turning the player into Slash! Read more »

November 3, 2008 Posted by danclough | Games | , , , , | No Comments Yet

Obama, McCain and a load of other stuff I don’t understand

Title: Mike’s Election Guide 2008

Author: Michael Moore

Publisher: Penguin

I take little notice of American politics, it’s difficult enough to keep up with ours over this side of the Atlantic, but having heard rave reviews of Michael Moore’s previous works and finding his film Stupid White Men rather amusing I picked this up as it was on offer in Tesco. Read more »

November 3, 2008 Posted by danclough | Books | , , , , | No Comments Yet