Meh. A friend of mine has had it since January or February, and we're pretty sick of the game. Most of the song selection is boring. I can understand the difficulty in finding songs that are good for every instrument, but the majority of them are boring on everything. The lag calibration is also terrible for those of you with HDTV's (though I have a friend who said he had to calibrate it for his regular old CRT, so I don't know what's up with that). We've never gotten it perfect, and it took a dozen tries doing it every possible way to even get it reasonably close. Guitar Hero 2 had the perfect lag calibration so I'm not sure how Harmonix screwed it up this time. And the last thing that bothers me is the drum kit. Part of it is that I am a drummer so things like the feel of the pads and pedal sit poorly with me, but it's also just poor quality. Whenever we play we get a lot more mistriggered notes than we should, and that pedal will break eventually. There's a lot of stress on one area that has no reinforcing to speak of. The worst part is they new about it before it was released but didn't do anything.

Now it's not all bad; the songs that are good are really, really good. The guitar feels great, singing works very well, and the changes to star power make it a lot more useful. I've also played some of the DLC and the songs I played are better than even a lot of the best songs in the game. I just have trouble getting past some of the crappy things this game has going for it, especially when they can ruin the experience for me sometimes.