Guitar Hero 3 Makes Midnight Launch On Consoles

Boston (dbTechno) – Guitar Hero III made its long awaited and highly anticipated release on Sunday morning for its big midnight release as fans waiting Saturday night to be the first to pick up the game on either the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, or PS2.

The full setlist for the game has also been revealed with the game set to release on the PC and Mac on November 12th.

There are 74-songs in total on Guitar Hero III making for the biggest setlist to date for this game. On the Xbox 360 and PS3 there are also expected to be added songs through micro-transactions as songs will be sold online over Xbox Live or the PlayStation Network.

3,000 stores were announced by Activision to take part in the midnight launch as it went on sale at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday.

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock has gamers taking on various famous musicians in the game including Slash from Guns N’ Roses and Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello.

Bret Michaels from Poison is also featured.

Guitar Hero III features for the first time online play in co-op and battle form.
Many Best Buy and GameStop locations took part in the midnight release.

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