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(96 customer reviews) 124 of 126 people found the following review helpful
Excellent controller with a bad reputation.,
April 11, 2008 Desired FX "Call me Don. It's shorter than Is... (Pittsburgh, PA USA) - See all my reviews
= Fun: This review is from: PlayStation 3 Rock Band Wireless Guitar (Video Game)
When Rock Band rolled out last November, Harmonix/EA had some quality control problems with the first wave or two of guitar controllers. Being an early adopter, I lived through these issues and was rather frustrated that this much-anticipated game couldn't deliver on its promise.
It's April, now, and the separate guitar controller is finally available.
So, should you get it, or will you end up sending it off for repair, or returning it, or just plain smashing it out of frustration?
The first thing to address is the quality of the controller. It gets bashed a lot for the one serious defect the first batch of controllers had: the strum bar on many, many of them broke after just a few hours use.
Obviously, that's unacceptable, and Harmonix and EA both knew that. They jumped on the problem with both feet and by the end of January, virtually everyone who had problems finally had a controller in hand that wasn't defective.
So let's put...Read more
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Bad batch of wireless guitar,
May 19, 2008 J. Liu "OxYi" (CA, USA) - See all my reviews
= Fun: This review is from: PlayStation 3 Rock Band Wireless Guitar (Video Game)
I didn't purchase mine from Amazon, but from gamestop store.
First one I got, it will not sense me have tilted the guitar, and not matter how hard I try to tilted it, it will go into overdrive mode, I have to press "select" button to use it.
Returned, and got another one. This time, when I tilted it, it does go into overdrive, but not as sensitive as the one that came with the whole package. The stock one will go into overdrive if it senses me slightly going upward. This one I have to do it hard, or maybe twice or three times before it would go into overdrive, it is kind of frustrating, but just to share with you guys the experience that I had.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
No overdrive,
September 10, 2009 Gift Recipient "Double Baby" (Californ - i - a) - See all my reviews
= Fun: This review is from: PlayStation 3 Rock Band Wireless Guitar (Video Game)
I just got this today, and it works perfectly fine if you don't want to go into overdrive. Trying to deploy overdrive with this thing made we want to scream. I felt like smashing it into tiny little bits because I would spend so much time frustrated at it while trying to deploy overdrive that I would completely fail out of the song. Don't buy this. Look for the newer model.
