I don't really like this guitar

I started playing music games with Guitar Hero III for the Wii. I love the game and still play it regularly. So I picked up Rock Band for the Wii not long ago thinking it couldn't be much different.

I'll say that had I purchased Rock Band first, I may not still be playing music games. This is due almost completely to the Rock Band guitar.

Perhaps I'm biased by having "honed" my game skills on the Guitar Hero guitar, but I just prefer it soooo much to this guitar. The Rock Band guitar's strum bar is so spongy/mushy, that it's hard to tell if your strum has been registered. As opposed to Guitar Hero's whichs clicks when you strum, giving some tactile feedback that you did indeed strum. It doesn't help that many of Rock Band's songs on hard have large sections of fast strumming.

The buttons are okay, and better than the strum bar. But I can't say they're my favorite either.

The guitar looks great, and feels pretty good. It's more appropriately sized than the Guitar Hero guitar  more

Excellent companion to Rock Band

This compliment to the Rock Band bundled edition is a must buy, especially if you want to enjoy four person band play, or have three people who all dislike being a lead singer. So far, I have no complaints abou the game play with this guitar.

This is the same guitar that comes inside the bundled version of Rock Band.