Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s

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The greatest video game of all time gets an '80s makeover. Imagine: hair so big it deserves its own zip code. Liver transplants. Copious amounts of cocaine. And spandex that clings so tight, you can practically see the herpes sores underneath. But something about this '80s-hits version smells as rotten as a groupie with crabs. The track list is fine—Radar Love, Ballroom Blitz, that I-think-I'm-turning-Japanese song, etc.—but the covers of the songs don't feel as tuned or as polished as they did in the superior Guitar Hero II. Beyond that, you never feel like you're actually "playing" these songs as much as you're merely trying to hit a bunch of random fret buttons as quickly as possible. Hate to say it for a series that we'd bite the head off a bat for, but this '80s version fails to hit the high notes that our beloved series is known for.

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